There has been a veritable “turn to rights” in environmental and climate litigation, especially in the last five years. The EU has in the same period taken an “increasingly prominent role” in relation to climate change and adopted “a considerable amount of new climate legislation” (as observed by The Hague Court of Appeal in Shell/Milieudefensie). … Read more
Eve Hill was quoted as a legal authority in The New York Times about possible discrimination against people with disabilities in scientific research grants as a result of President Trump’s executive order. The New York Times reported that a postdoctoral researcher learned that his application for a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant, studying the … Read more
João Pedro Sousa (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) 1. Introduction Protecting personal data is a cornerstone of the European Union (EU) legal framework, safeguarded by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) and Article 16 of the Treaty … Read more
On the 4th of February 2025, the President of El Salvador offered the United States of America ‘the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system’, transferring convicted U.S. criminals into the Salvadoran mega-prison (CECOT) ‘in exchange for a fee.’ Amidst an increasingly fragile rule of law, mounting carceral expansion and documented human rights abuses … Read more
Image Source: Unsplash The weather was unusually mild for an August day in 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King took center stage on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver one of the most inspiring speeches in American History. A throng of over 250,000 people, some of them dangling their feet in the reflective … Read more