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CJLPA 2025 Law, Politics, and Art Essay Prizes—Deadline Extension
The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art is pleased to announce its 2025 Essay Prizes in Law, Politics, and Art. An...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
2 min read
On Rules-based Order
There is a certain irony in a prisoner of law receiving a prize given by lawyers. Something must have gone very wrong when one who...
Chow Hang-tung
17 min read
Rebel Rebel: In Conversation with Soheila Sokhanvari
Soheila Sokhanvari is a British-Iranian artist whose diverse practice delves into the complexities of identity, politics, and social...
Nancy Lura
23 min read
Jonathan Sumption’s Conceptual Gaps and Misconceptions on Historical Apologies and Judicial Diversity
I. Introduction Jonathan Sumption—once described by The Guardian as ‘the brain of Britain’—is a professional historian and former...
Alberto Alvarez-Jimenez
19 min read
When Is an Artwork Finished? Revisiting the Question
When is an artwork finished? Ann Landi, a contributing Editor of ARTnews , wrote an article that explored the question of when an...
Amir Pichhadze
17 min read
Migrants in Tunisia—When Sovereignty Triumphs over Dignity
Preamble ‘Tunisia will remain a state that will fight for the oppressed (or stand with the oppressed) and prevail for the victims of...
Romdhane Ben Amor
30 min read
Precarity Squared: The Intersectional Lived Experiences of African Transgender Migrants in Sweden
Abstract Sweden is globally considered not only a country with generous refugee reception policies but also a leading example of...
Miles Tanhira
23 min read
Conflict and Constitutionalism in Sudan: In Conversation with Abdelkhalig Shaib
Abdelkhalig Shaib is a Sudanese attorney and member of the American and New York Bar Associations, who specializes in constitutionalism...
Solomon Njombai
26 min read
That is the Work of Rohingya Women—It Cannot be Mistaken for Anyone Else’s Labour: In Conversation with Yasmin Ullah and Doreen Chen
Yasmin Ullah is a Rohingya author, poet, and human rights activist based in Canada. Born in the North Arakan state of Myanmar/Burma, she...
Alexandra Marcy Hall
31 min read
Afghan Women’s Rights to Education and Health Care in a Culture of Impunity
In the aftermath of the Second World War, just over seventy-five years ago the international community embraced the Universal Declaration...
Sima Samar
15 min read
Advocacy for Afghan Women Judges: In Conversation with Marzia Babakarkhail
Marzia Babakarkhail, a former family law judge in Afghanistan during the 1990s, has dedicated her career to justice. In the wake of the...
Angelina Spilnyk
11 min read
From Syria to the Silver Screen: In Conversation with Jay Abdo
Jay Abdo is a Syrian actor and human rights activist, who has featured in various films and television shows in the Middle East and...
Nour Kachi
15 min read
Foreword to CJLPA: The Human Agenda
The three broad categories of the title express overlapping perspectives of human difference. Read together they comprise the topic of...
Sir David Baragwanath
6 min read
International Law and Human Rights: The Way Forward
We are all responsible for what happens in our world. In the intricate tapestry of global affairs, we face a stark reality: amidst a...
Nadia Jahnecke
5 min read
The Human Agenda: A word from the Editor-in-Chief
A word from the Editor-in-Chief, Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim The last edition of the Journal ended with these words, from Léon...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
3 min read
The Airspace Tribunal and the Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat from Above: In Conversation with Shona Illingworth and Nick Grief
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK. Her work examines the impact of accelerating military, industrial, and environmental transformations of airspace and outer space and the implications for human rights. She is co-founder with Nick Grief of the Airspace Tribunal ( https://airspacetribunal.org/ ). Recent solo exhibitions include Topologies of Air at Les Abattoirs, Musée—Frac Occitanie, Toulouse (2022
Aidan Johnson
20 min read
Making the Case for Prosecuting the Taliban for Crimes Against Humanity and Gender Apartheid in the ICC for the Unlawful Imprisonment of Afghan Women and Girls
Since 15 August 2021, the Taliban Government continues to suppress the progression of women’s basic human rights in Afghanistan, resulting in their systematic oppression as a result of state sponsored crimes against humanity which has also encompassed gender apartheid. Gender apartheid has been defined as the economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex. This manifests itself as a system enforced by using either physical or lega
Kimberley Motley
20 min read
Children as a Vehicle of Genocide
Introduction The epitome of the 21st century’s Russian war against Ukraine manifested itself in Vladimir Putin’s speech on the morning of 24 February 2022.[1] In his address, the Russian President announced a series of wars against the collective West and the sovereign state of Ukraine. The massive Russian military attack on Ukrainian land, air, and sea was presented to the Russian public as ‘a special military operation’. According to President Putin, ‘The purpose of this
Iryna Zaverukha
34 min read
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