Conrado Hübner Mendes, Roberto Gargarella, and Sebastián Guidi (2022)
New book edited by Conrado Hübner Mendes, Roberto Gargarella, and Sebastián Guidi. Several LawTransform affiliates have contributed to this book. This handbook is an authoritative introduction to the constitutional law landscape in Latin America, adopting a multi-jurisdictional approach to the analysis of constitutions and constitutional traditions in seventeen Latin American countries. The book sheds light […]
Ana Côrtes, Pedro Oliveira (2022)
New article by LawTransform affiliate Ana Côrtes and her colleague Pedro Oliveira (University of Coimbra, Portugal). Persons with disabilities have historically occupied a vulnerable position in society. However, it was only after the Second World War that a sense of responsibility became stronger in the international community in order to prevent their rights from violations. […]
Blogpost by Neil Datta Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Gilead, Margaret Atwood’s authoritarian dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale where women’s role is reduced to forced procreation, has served as powerful symbol for progressive groups around the world in denouncing the erosion of human rights, specifically women’s rights. And Poland […]
New article by Arkaja Singh Recognition of the right to water in Indian courts has had little impact on the ground. This paper explores the seeming disjuncture between what happens in the court and the everyday reality of living with a less-than-perfect claim on city water services in India’s urban slums. The paper seeks to […]
Güneş Murat Tezcür, Rebecca Schiel and Bruce M. Wilson (2021) Development and Change, Volume 52, Issue 6, p. 1343-1369 Under what conditions can a human rights-based approach be successfully utilized? This article argues that the efficacy of a human […]
R. Schiel, B. M. Wilson and M. Langford (2021) WATER 13(12), 1676. (IF 3.103, Scopus 3.7) Ten years after the […]
B. M. Wilson, O. Rodriguez & S. Morales (2021)
In Albert, R, D. Landau, P. Faraguna, and S. Drugda. ICON and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. ISBN: 978-0-692-15916-3
The global COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s response to it dominated the social, political, economic and legal landscape of Costa Rica in 2020. The government’s measures to combat the pandemic included mandatory travel restrictions, shuttering of mass public events, and curbs on business activities. These salutary actions, while successful in comparison with most other countries […]
New article by Mathea Loen and Siri Gloppen The international norm development that in 2010 culminated with the UN Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation changed international law. To what extent did this influence the parallel legal developments evident in many national constitutions across the globe? This article analyses the mobilisation for […]
New article by Sabrina Kozikis and Inga T. Winkler Communities across the United States face a widespread water crisis including risks of contamination, rate increases, shut-offs for non-payment, and dilapidating infrastructure. Against this background, a right to water movement has emerged which has found its strength in coalition-building and collectivity. Activists demand change using the […]
New article by Lara Côrtes, Camila Gianella, Angela M. Páez, and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta In this paper we compare recent efforts towards the constitutionalization of the right to water in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru to understand the opportunities and limitations related to the attempts to enhance access to piped water to the highest normative level. […]
