How can creativity advance international justice for egregious human rights violations? 🔊
Human rights internationally are bound by the legal principle of national sovereignty. What this means is that nations are the entities that are expected to protect human rights. Human rights are universal; we have these rights because we are human. So how can...
Is surreptitious policing a problem in Aotearoa? ▶
Is surreptitious policing a problem in Aotearoa? In this talk, Professor Scott Optican examines the criminal justice system’s response to significantly inculpatory evidence generated by surreptitious policing. This talk was part of the 2021 home edition of the Raising...
Abortion: What is the future of Roe v Wade in the United States? 🔊
Recently, Texas passed a law outlawing abortion after roughly six weeks. The US Supreme Court did not overturn this law, culminating in a series of phases intending to overturn a women’s reproductive right to access an abortion as enshrined in the landmark US...
Twenty years on: what were the legal consequences of 9/11? ▶
In this talk hosted by the University of Auckland Law School, John Ip will address the far-reaching legal consequences of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. John Ip is an Associate Professor n Law at the University of Auckland. He is an...
Counter-terrorism: how can Aotearoa reduce the risk of future attacks?
By Alexander Gillespie New Zealand needs to go beyond fast-tracking counter-terrorism laws to reduce the risk of future attacks. New Zealand’s second terrorist attack in two years highlights weaknesses in existing counter-terrorism laws in preventing violent...
What are the implications of America’s new electoral laws? 🔊
Since the 2020 election, the Republican party has confronted defeat by claiming the election was stolen. In response, state legislatures controlled by the party have written substantial revisions to election processes and election law. In the name of protections...
Taxing the digital economy: what changes can be made? ▶
The question of how to tax multinational companies that operate highly digitalised business models is one of the most contested areas of international taxation. The tax paid in the jurisdictions in which these companies operate has not kept pace with their immense...
Regulating big tech: Are Facebook and Google too powerful? ▶
Facebook and Google, and other large technology companies, are some of the most powerful companies to ever exist. They touch every aspect of our lives, and decisions made by a few CEOs in Silicon Valley have a bigger impact on billions of people than their own...
Free speech: Is it really under threat?
By Paul Spoonley We can expect a lot of sound and fury as we start to debate the hate speech provisions that will be aired soon. But hopefully, we can also have an informed debate about the nature of hate, including what occurs online, and the impacts of this on...Subscribe by Email
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