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- Assisted Suicide. The Purdy Case
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary: who should decide whether there should be a law to protected those engaged in assisting others to die? Should it be parliament, or the law officers?
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Keywords: human rights - Ben Wilson
Published: The Guardian, 2009
Summary: this is an expanded version of a book review that appeared in the Guardian - on Ben Wilson's What price Liberty?
File size: 244 Kb, 3
Keywords: civil liberties counter-terrorism - Berlusconi, the Vatican and freedom of speech
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary: These are reflections on free speech provoked by the increasingly authoritarian and undiscipined actions of the Italiam prime minister
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Keywords: civil liberties human rights - Blogging and privacy
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary: should bloggers have a right to privacy? Not always I think.
File size: 190 Kb, 2
Keywords: - Doing Human Rights: Social Justice in a Post-Socialist Age
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary: This is the talk I gave at the launch of the new Las Casas Centre on Social Justice at Blackfriars in Oxford
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Keywords: human rights - electoral reform
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary: This is an argument in favour of reform to the UK's electoral system, in which change I have long believed
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Keywords: - Gaza and International Law
Published: The Tablet, 2009
Summary:
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Keywords: counter-terrorism human rights - Human Rights after Darwin
Published: LSE, 2009
Summary: This is the text of my farewell lecture at LSE on 7 May.
File size: 290 Kb, 13
Keywords: - Human rights as a new state religion?
Published: LSE, 2009
Summary: This is the second annual Digby Stuart lecture which I delivered at Roehampton university on 18 June 2009
File size: 329 Kb, 12
Keywords: human rights - Is Britain really becoming a police state?
Published: New Statesman, 2009
Summary: I wrote this in the New Statesman and it has provoked quite a reaction from some people, much of it hostile. But I think there needs to be some open discussion of the issues I lay out here
File size: 193 Kb, 2
Keywords: civil liberties counter-terrorism security
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