Solitary confinement of children is increasingly being challenged in Australian courts, with rulings recently handed down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Recent

international jurisprudence on the harmful practice, and on torture more broadly, stands poised to advance the local cause. [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union (Court) delivered a preliminary ruling in 2011 in the case of Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace on the interpretation of Article 6(2)

of the Biotech Directive and thereby established an autonomous concept of the term ‘human embryo’. [...]

While many regard equality as the moral foundation of democracy, republican theory grounds democracy in freedom as non-domination. The grounding of democracy in freedom has

been criticized for relying on either an Aristotelian perfectionism or a Rousseauian equation of the people in their collective capacity and the people understood [...]

Is there such a thing as sex rights? And if so, are sex rights positive rights, like healthcare rights? Over the last couple of decades, I have discussed these questions at

the intersection of philosophy, bioethics, public health, and sexology. Most recently, I have been discussing these questions by proposing the concept of ‘public [...]

The exponential growth of data has turned transnational data governance into a strategic priority for global data hubs. While the concept of “data as the new oil” highlights

big data’s economic value, the dominance of large technology firms and increasing geopolitical tensions have prompted states, particularly China, to assert stronger [...]

The past two decades at the European Court of Human Rights have been marked by various efforts to reduce its backlog of cases through changing the substantive, procedural,

and formal practices surrounding access to the Court. Proposals aimed at facilitating these efforts have also rested on the unarticulated premise that solving the [...]

Kelsen’s exhortation to find the law within norms was received by Ross as producing merely ‘endless repetion’. In response, Ross suggested that we should instead relocate

our endeavours to the terrain of ‘psycho-social reality’—namely, the empirical examination of the ideology which underpinned the acts of the judiciary. [...]

Since its inception in 1959, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) has rendered more than 22.500 judgments to address violations of human rights across Europe.

Public attention surrounding the Court’s work has focused mostly on the violations that the Court establishes in its judgments and at times, the high sums of compensation [...]

This article reflects on COVID-19 restrictions imposed on elders in Ireland through the lens of the right to private and family life (Article 8 ECHR), focusing on stay at home

orders and recommendations advising elders to avoid social contact. Furthermore, we examine restrictions on visiting nursing homes given high death toll in that setting. [...]

This article seeks to bring the invisible child of personalized medicine out from the shadows through legal analysis and empirical data. It uses Denmark as a case to argue

that existing policies, laws and practices on personalized medicine neglect the legal and ethical issues specific to children. [...]