Jill concludes her discussion of Human Rights law and personal identity following on from the blog she wrote earlier this year, “Empowering rights in our environment“. This series of blogs has been adapted from Jill’s new book, Human Rights Law and Personal Identity.* The book Human Rights Law and Personal Identity is not interested in simply […]
Jill continues her discussion of Human Rights law and personal identity following on from the blog she wrote earlier this year, “Living and dying“. Those who are powerless, or have less power, can be encouraged to make ‘rights talk’ their own because rights are defined by who talks about them and the language that is […]
Jill continues her discussion of Human Rights law and personal identity following on from the blog she wrote earlier this year, “Who does the law think we are?“. Human rights to a personal identity begin with the right to life. It is often said that without the right to life, no other rights can or […]
Jill continues her discussion of Human Rights law and personal identity following on from the blog she wrote earlier this year, “Who do we think we are?“. Who or what is a person has legal implications. In most countries around the world, a person’s identity is recorded on birth. The fact of personal existence has […]
In today’s blog, and in some more entries to follow, I want to explore some aspects of ‘human rights law and personal identity’. My new book,Human Rights Law and Personal Identity, published by Routledge explores these issues in much greater detail. In this entry, I explain briefly what this esoteric phrase actually means. Article 22 of […]
A rare opportunity and for one night only, the International Law firm Simmons & Simmons is opening up their contemporary private art collection in London to raise funds for UKELA’s 25th Anniversity. UKELA is focused on making the law work for a better environment and the exhibition brings together art and environmental issues in a […]
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. That idea is with us today. That time is now. Many of the recommendations that were submitted to the Zero Draft process are not really new. Many have been developing for years, decades even. Often the best ideas do not come to fruition straight away, but instead […]
Belgium and its airports seem to have been skirmishing with the European Union Courts for some time now. First, in 2008, the ECJ inAbraham decided that a major and well-established expansion of Liege-Bierset airport required Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), contrary to the contentions of the airport and its operators. Our case, Boxus, concerns a raft of challenges to consents for that airport […]
There are nine agreed planetary or biophysical boundaries that define the conditions that maintain the delicate balance for the earth’secosystems. It is also becoming increasingly understood that if one or more of these boundaries are breached and this delicate balance tipped even slightly out of kilter, the ramifications have the potential to undermine the conditions that […]
