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Undocumented migrants in Ireland hold a demonstration in 2017. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

April 17, 2024

Ireland at the crossroads: Can the ancient Brehon laws guide the republic away from anti-immigrant sentiment?

Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University

New Irish prime minister takes over as the republic faces challenges that include a wave of xenophobia.

A lawyer in front of a Yaounde court. Reinnier Kaze/AFP via Getty Images

December 15, 2022

Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: how the common law court offers a ray of hope

Laura-Stella Enonchong, De Montfort University

The common law and civil law systems are quite distinct in legal practices, principles and procedures. How government manages the difference has implications for the Cameroon Anglophone crisis.

Australia is the only Western democracy without some form of charter of rights legislated by parliament or entrenched in the constitution. Lukas Coch/AAP

August 13, 2019

Why an Australian charter of rights is a matter of national urgency

Gillian Triggs, The University of Melbourne

We have a serious deficit in legal protection for human rights in Australia, rights that have been in regression for 20 years. We need a legislated charter setting out the rights we care about.

Conservative lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have raised fears that Islamic fundamentalists want to impose Sharia on Americans. Reuters/David Ryder

April 8, 2019

Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism – blame colonialism

Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz

There is no inherent tension between Islam and democratic values. Like any use of religion in politics, the application of Sharia as law depends on who is using it – and why.

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