The Story and Relevance of Christine de Pizan (1364 – 1430)

By Monika Erzsebet Berenyi The narratives, movements, texts and happening of the past draw us inextricably into the present, and it would be...
July 23, 2017

Reflections on Kidnap for Ransom through the Lens of Private Law

by Amanda Arella  This blog post was adapted from a presentation entitled “Duty of Care in the Context of Kidnap for Ransom” One...
August 31, 2016

Meeting the Survivors Behind the Cases

By Esther Dionne Desbiens My internship with Equality Effect & Ripples International in Meru, Kenya was amazing. I cannot believe how fast it...
August 18, 2016

The Functioning of the Inter-American Human Rights System

By Brianna Gorence My internship at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in San José, Costa Rica, began on May 24, 2016....
July 29, 2016

The Economic Migrant in International Law

By Laetitia Baya Yantren “This blog post is about all you strangers, future classmates that I as of yet have not met.” It’s also...
July 26, 2016

Justice on the Go

  Étienne F. Lacombe The administration of justice in Nunavut faces a discrete set of challenges, not the least of which is the...
July 24, 2016

Close to Home

By Fiona Cooke My first entry on this blog has turned out to be a lot more personal than I thought it would...
July 22, 2016

Additional Hurdles in Accessing Justice

By André Moreau Over the course of my internship at the Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) in Kampala, I’ve witnessed...
July 19, 2016

Adventures in the North

Theo Lyons It has already been six weeks since I arrived in Whitehorse, which means that I'm now about half way through my...
July 17, 2016

Lives on “stand-by”

 Par Nour Saadi   Assise sur ma chaise, les yeux cloués sur mon écran. They ripped off my pants with a knife and...
July 4, 2016

La détermination des peines au Nunavut : un exercice sui generis

Étienne F. Lacombe Quelles que soient ses connaissances au préalable, l’étudiant(e) qui effectue son stage auprès du bureau d’aide juridique d’Iqaluit ne peut...
July 3, 2016

Just Keep Swimming

By André Capretti In the past few months, Cambodian civil society has made concerted efforts to lobby foreign governments who are among Cambodia’s...
June 27, 2016