While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in some sectors of legal
practice, it has yet to have much impact within the judiciary or on judicial thinking. Thus …

Laïcité has assumed centre stage in much of the public debate in France over a little more
than a decade. As it retraces the main legal developments that this heightened debate has …

This article explores the position of English and Welsh criminal law that criminalises incest in
the context of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) norms. This article focuses …

Growing concern for the democratic legitimacy of human rights treaty organs calls for the
construction of an autonomous conception of 'democracy'as a constitutional principle of …

This thesis analyses the visibility or invisibility of core minority rights' violations through the
judicial system and the medium of judicial rulings. It examines cases of discriminatory …

When judges disagree, those in the minority write a dissenting opinion. This book considers
the great dissents in Australian law. Their worth may derive from numerous factors, including …

The question of gender equality before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)—one
of the most powerful human rights bodies in Europe and beyond—is not only …

This chapter seeks to bridge the gap between the expanding literatures on comparative
constitutional change and gender and constitutionalism. Starting from an inclusive definition …

One of the key causes of disharmony on a global scale, throughout human history, has been
the disregard for the protection of religious expression. This goes some way to explaining …