Daniel’s Blog

December 6, 2022

A Critical Lens on the Protection of Sexual and Gender Minorities under International Human Rights Law

In this article on Opinio Juris I cast a Critical eye on the emerging jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee, and the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, concerning violence against sexual and gender minorities. In my view, in order to effectively and thoroughly address this violence, the law must reckon with its intersectional…
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November 18, 2022

On Moyn’s Critique of the Compatibility between Human Rights and Neoliberalism.

A good eighteen months ago I had the opportunity, though my studies, to engage with some of the profound and incredibly important critiques of human rights law (IHRL), most notably from the left. In this post, I’ll relay my reflections on Prof Samuel Moyn’s critiques of IHRL’s relationship to neoliberal economics as best demonstrated by…
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May 2, 2022

Book review: ‘Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk’

I recently wrote a review of Dr Alice Nah’s Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk, a much-needed and hopefully influential study of the risk faced and capacities mobilised by human rights defenders to continue their work in Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, and Mexico. Check the review out over on Security Dialogue.
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