COP27: How Young Climate Activists Are Changing International Human Rights Law

There’s still time to avert the worst of climate change.
law
There’s still time to avert the worst of climate change.
In this contribution to Bulletin 26, Beverley Clough explores how disability legal studies might benefit from a more thorough theoretical engagement with spatial imaginaries.
Fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – are the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet governments around the globe are on track to produce 120 per cent more than is compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement. If those stocks are to be kept in the ground, an alternative approach is necessary.
The children argue failure to tackle climate change constitutes youth discrimination.
In January 2021, former ISRF Fellow Oche Onazi discussed his book An African Path to Disability Justice with Julie Maybee and Tom Shakespeare.
Former ISRF Fellow Craig Jones presents his new book, The War Lawyers. In this groundbreaking study, Jones explores how important law and war lawyers have become in the conduct of contemporary warfare, and how it is understood.
What place does the concept of dangerousness occupy in criminal justice and criminalisation? Instead of seeing dangerousness as a characteristic of serious and persistent criminals, we should investigate its pervasive role in criminal justice, question its socio-affective allure, and unpick the problematic but intimate relation between criminal justice, structural inequalities, and oppression.
The coronavirus lockdown in the UK has lead the government to increasingly focus on the affective life of the populace. This draws our attention to sovereign encounters, racialised public order and the temper of the populace more generally.