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Rights In Small Places? Participation, Rights And Power In Northern Ireland, Nicola Browne
Rights In Small Places? Participation, Rights And Power In Northern Ireland, Nicola Browne
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
That a disconnect exists between ordinary people and the world of human rights academia, NGOs and INGOs and the marginalised communities they are intended to serve is undisputed. As the years preceding and following the financial crash have been characterised by increased economic inequality and concentration of power and influence in the hands of a ever-shrinking coterie of elites, human rights as a tool of change have seemed increasingly legalistic, irrelevant and divorced from the people. A case study will be presented of Belfast based rights organisation (Participation and the Practice of Rights - PPR) set up to develop and …
Rwu Law News: The E-Newsletter Of Roger Williams University School Of Law (June 2019), Roger Williams University School Of Law
Rwu Law News: The E-Newsletter Of Roger Williams University School Of Law (June 2019), Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: 'Hate And Bigotry Have No Place In America' April 18, 2019, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: 'Hate And Bigotry Have No Place In America' April 18, 2019, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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2nd Annual Stonewall Lecture 04-16-2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
2nd Annual Stonewall Lecture 04-16-2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
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Immigration Unilateralism And American Ethnonationalism, Robert L. Tsai
Immigration Unilateralism And American Ethnonationalism, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
This paper arose from an invited symposium on "Democracy in America: The Promise and the Perils," held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law in Spring 2019. The essay places the Trump administration’s immigration and refugee policy in the context of a resurgent ethnonationalist movement in America as well as the constitutional politics of the past. In particular, it argues that Trumpism’s suspicion of foreigners who are Hispanic or Muslim, its move toward indefinite detention and separation of families, and its disdain for so-called “chain migration” are best understood as part of an assault on the political settlement of the …