His focus is on the immediate practicalities of legal work; the argument isn’t even that desegregation is necessarily bad in and of itself – just that civil rights lawyers should be able to advocate for the stated interests of their clients, even when they conflict with the doctrines of th...
i.e. through a reasonable interpretation of the legal norms and the existing international practice of refugee protection, they should have a right to stay. Instead, if their asylum claim is a clear case of bad faith, deliberately abusing the refugee system in order to access better opportunitie...
Prospective law students interested in this field should research schools with strong local professional networks. Miki TanikawaSept. 17, 2024 Law Schools for Family, Child Advocacy Refugee communities and people with disabilities are among disadvantaged groups premed students can...
At the same time, we should stop using crisis language, adding to the public perceptions of things being out of control. The current situation is manageable and this crisis narrative fuels the rising trend of European xenophobic and anti-immigrant populism and increases tens...
One TPT-participating teacher told me, “I don’t care what they say, I should get paid for my work!” The hypocrisy of this statement was both staggering and hilarious to me. In that moment I realized what I was dealing with.
You and I are now presented with this same opportunity, should we choose to accept it. Because of COVID-19, billions of people worldwide have just been through a pretty shitty year. The effects have been very unequal and unfair – the world reported about 1.7 million deaths from the virus...
Regarding the whole “several ethnic and religious groups” thing and the natural boundaries of separation that had developed between them over centuries, George-Picot famously remarked, “Whatevs,” and with pencil in hand, Sykes is quoted as saying, “I should like to draw a line from theein...
I should also note that Onderdonk has been the Legion Judge Advocate General since 1983, shortly before the original Liberty resolution by the Legion was rescinded. If past interaction with Liberty survivors is anything to go by, it can be assumed that he will do everything in his power to...
This article makes the case for why higher education institutions should take the teaching of peacebuilding seriously. It is co-authored by a team from four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Colombia and the United Kingdom) who were involved in a small international research project lookin...