Sharing Insights

To support productive scholarly dialogue and informed public conversations, we share news and research with the Nathanson Centre’s communities through several channels:

The Nathanson Blog

Our blog offers news and updates from the Nathanson Centre, including recaps of recent events, announcements of publications by Centre-affiliated researchers and other dispatches on transnational legal issues.

Artificial Intelligence at Work International Conference

Discover how AI is reshaping work — and what it means for the future. Conference highlights:

Ethics and Privacy in the Digital Age: Implications for Youth Well-Being and Autonomy

Blog post by Nathanson fellow Maryam Sheikh. Privacy is a fundamental human right. The United Nations recognizes the right to privacy as one that enables the enjoyment of other rights, including the ability to express one’s personality, identity, and beliefs, and to participate meaningfully in social, political, and civic life. The UN Convention on the […]

Roundtable on policing, racial profiling, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Blog post by Julia Singer. On October 24, 2025, the Nathanson Centre and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal convened an in-person roundtable on racial profiling, policing, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In its Fall 2025 issue, the Journal published a special symposium exploring how courts can better approach and remedy racial profiling […]

Transnational Human Rights Review

The Transnational Human Rights Review (THR) is a scholarly journal focused on the promotion and protection of human rights in jurisdictions around the globe. THR is published through a collaboration between the Nathanson Centre and the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Abuja, Nigeria. Led by a team of highly regarded international scholars and jurists, THR welcomes scholarly articles that examine human rights from a transnational perspective or that engage with questions of human rights normativity and practices. You can learn more about THR, including the journal’s submission criteria and peer review process, in the Digital Commons of Osgoode Hall Law School. 

Recent Articles

Citizenship Deprivation as an Act of Persecution: Case Study of the Assam Citizen Exercise as a Precursor to a Nation-Wide Determination of Citizenship.

Explores reasons for defining India’s citizenship practices, now modified through the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 as “persecutory.”

Transformative Constitutions and Constitutionalism: A New Theory and School of Jurisprudence from the Global South?

Using Kenya as a case study, explores critical elements of transformative constitutions as well as the development of the jurisprudence emerging from these constitutions.

Protection of Victim-Witnesses of Human Rights Violations in Criminal Prosecutions in Nigeria

Highlights a lack of information about witness protection practices in prosecutions involving human rights violations in Nigeria and proposes a system to facilitate the protection of victim-witnesses testifying against perpetrators of human rights violations.