On Indigeneity and Guesthood: Lessons from the Tagbanwa Ancestral Domain

By Athena Nikolis I had been working at the Ateneo Human Rights Center (AHRC) for nearly two months when my supervisor invited me...
August 31, 2025

Juliette Vermes-Monty – Dialogues interaméricains

Par Juliette Vermes-Monty Avant de commencer mon stage à la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme, j’espérais surtout approfondir mes connaissances sur le...
August 24, 2025

Faith Dehghan – The Cost of Wearing Green and Gold

By Faith Dehghan I’ve never truly understood the undying passion sports fans feel for their team until I attended a Springboks game. Rugby...
August 22, 2025

Darius Jamal – From Coffee Cherries to Courtrooms in Rural Kenya

For the past two months, I’ve been living in Kianyaga, a small rural town on the slopes of Mount Kenya. Known for producing...
August 20, 2025

Annica Dickens — Mental Borders: How Legal Fictions Limit Our Imagination

By Annica Dickens I write about rivers I have not yet visited—not for lack of desire or feasibility, but because legal fictions hold...
July 18, 2025

Dignity in the Dining Room: A Right or Luxury?

By Brett Mazliach Early Lessons from my Internship I never imagined I’d say this: I just ate arctic char soup with a Canadian...
July 15, 2025

Ricardo Lamour – What Sits with Me: Reflections on Writing my First Gladue Report

By Ricardo Lamour For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. These were the words spoken three quarters into my first meeting with my supervisor at...
July 10, 2025

Patricia Betts – From the Office to the Trails

By Patricia Betts - Before I started this internship in May 2025, I had never been west of Strathroy, Ontario, a small town...
July 10, 2025

Ronan van Rooij – A love letter to Gambian cuisine

View from the beach in Brufut By Ronan van Rooij When one arrives in the Gambia one is met with profound hospitality and...
June 25, 2025

Mitch Thompson – Building into my role at the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan

By Mitch T J'écris ce blog pour décrire mes premières impressions du Saskatoon et mon introduction au travail de Métis Nation - Saskatchewan...
May 28, 2025

Ximena Ramírez Villanueva – Transitional Justice, Community Transformation, and Personal Reflections from Comuna 13

By Ximena Ramírez Villanueva Rediscovering Comuna 13 Through New Perspectives During the last two weeks of my internship with Avocats Sans Frontières, I...
September 4, 2024

Isabela Restrepo – What la Pura Vida Taught me about Law and Life

By Isabela Restrepo Warning: At the risk of sounding cliché, this is yet another story about growing up as a first-generation immigrant in...
September 3, 2024