The African Union’s continental human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), received a setback this past March when Tunisia withdrew its declaration, under Article 34(6) of the Court’s founding Protocol, allowing individuals and NGOs to directly access the Court. Tunisia accounts for 24 (7%) of the 371 applications to the African Court to date, and the two-thirds of applications still pending (and those submitted before the withdrawal enters into force) will proceed as normal. However, once the withdrawal takes effect in March 2026, Tunisians will be deprived of a potential avenue for accountability for human rights abuses during a period of increasing authoritarianism in Tunisia.
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Analyzing The Individual Tax Provisions Of The House Republicans’ 2025 Proposed Tax Bill – Go Health Pro
On May 12, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released their long-awaited tax legislation proposal. The proposed bill lays out the specifics of Republicans’ plans for extending (and adding to) the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2025. At a high level, the bill would … Read more
Eve Hill represents a coalition of leading disability rights advocates along with individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop unlawful cuts to social security services. – Go Health Pro
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), Deaf Equality, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, along with individual plaintiffs, filed a federal lawsuit today against the Social Security Administration (SSA), Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason, … Read more
Did individual index-linked gilts hedge post-pandemic inflation? – Go Health Pro
The failure of index-linked bond funds to perform post-Covid has really been bothering me. What’s the point of these things if they don’t actually protect you from inflation? Meanwhile, individual index-linked gilts – correctly used – are meant to be a proper inflation hedge. But is that true? Can we empirically prove individual linkers worked … Read more
CfP BIICL-SLS Soft Law in International Law Workshop; CfP Strasbourg Observers Symposium; CfP Freedom of the Seas and Freedom of the Individual; CfP European Yearbook on Human Rights – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro
1. Call for Papers: BIICL-SLS International Law Section Workshop. The British Institute of International & Comparative Law and the International Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars are hosting a one-day hybrid workshop taking place in central London on 26 March 2025 under the title ‘Soft Law in International Law’. The organizers, Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci, Georgia Greville, Dr Saeed Bagheri and Dr Solon Solomon, invite abstracts to be submitted by 16 December 2024 to biicl-sls-workshop {at} biicl(.)org together with a short 150-word bio. Decisions will be communicated by 24 January 2025. More information on the workshop can be found here.
2. Call for Papers: Strasbourg Observers 15th Anniversary Symposium. Founded in April 2010, the Strasbourg Observers Blog is soon celebrating its 15th Anniversary. At this occasion, they are organizing a symposium in Ghent (Belgium) for which they invite abstracts (and panel proposals) that analyse and reflect on important developments in the ECtHR case law and/or scholarship over these past 15 years. They are particularly interested in abstracts that focus on the Court’s ways of reasoning across various thematic areas as well as in abstracts that take a step outside of the Court’s case law and delve into questions about how it operates as an institution. They also welcome abstracts discussing novel approaches and methods (both quantitative and qualitative) in ECtHR scholarship. Abstracts of around 300 words should be sent to strasbourgobservers {at} gmail(.)com by 2 December 2024 with the indivudal’s name, affiliation and a short bio. Submissions for a collection of abstracts as a complete panel proposal should indicate the panel convenor and panel title on top of the information requested for individual abstract submission. Find more information here.