As currently conceived, the climate crisis's just transition ignores sanitation workers whose job prospects are restricted by caste. As the world warms, governments have promised a “just transition”: ...

The following post summarizes a talk I gave at FAU’s Human Rights Colloquium on July 14, 2026. Hong Kong is perhaps the paradigmatic example of a special “offshore” economic zone designed to be ...

In June 2026, French economist Thomas Piketty and his colleagues from the World Inequality Lab published the Global Justice Report. The report lays out a detailed institutional road map for achieving ...

Civil institutions that are reliable, accountable, and accessible are crucial to building confidence in government. Commentators often ascribe Latin America’s crisis of trust to problems of elections, ...

Sebastián León-Giraldo, PhD, is a research lead at Liga de Salud Trans and a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Government at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He studies how people ...

Cristina Alejandra Estrella is an Argentine lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and a civil-law notary from the University of Morón. She completed a postgraduate specialization in civil law at ...

Since January 2025, about 360 federal data collection surveys in the United States have removed at least one question about sexual orientation or gender identity. This followed an executive order ...

Courts are adopting tools and procedures that quietly put children's right to be heard at risk. Over the past decade, criminal and juvenile courts around the world have begun delegating a task once ...