Matteo Zamboni (human rights lawyer working between Italy and the UK. He is a partner to the Immigration Law and Policy clinic of Goldsmiths, University of London) Photo: The towers of the Court of Justice in the Luxembourg fog (c) Matteo Zamboni On Tuesday 25 February 2025 I attended the Grand Chamber … Read more
Yesterday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights published a landmark ruling in the case of Pueblos Indígenas Tagaeri y Taromenane v. Ecuador, the first case in its 45-year history to address the rights of Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The case concerns Ecuador’s international responsibility for the violation of the rights of the Tagaeri … Read more
In my contribution to the EAPIL online seminar discussing Ekatarina Aristova’s excellent Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts (OUP 2024), I flagged the discussion by Dr Aristova in Chapter 6 of the book, of one of the objections to jurisdiction exercised by ‘European’ or by extension courts in the Global North, … Read more
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired. U.S. District Judge James Bredar last week ordered the Trump administration to reinstate employees laid off across a number of U.S. government agencies, including the Department … Read more
I could not quite think of a catchier title conveying both the plus (claim will continue to be heard in England) and the minus (the discussion having already caused considerable delay), without resorting too obviously to football metaphors. The claim is brought in England by a number of Liverpool fans physically and psychologically damaged by … Read more