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.

Event re-cap “Private Nuisance, Looking Out, Gazing In.”

Summary by Anthony Sangiuliano On February 14, 2025, the Nathanson Centre sponsored a presentation by Haim Abraham, Lecturer at the University College London Faculty of Laws, entitled “Private Nuisance, Looking Out, Gazing In.” The presentation was organized by Nathanson Visiting Fellow Anthony Sangiuliano as part of the Tort Law and Social Equality Project Speaker Series […]

Event Recap - Youth Climate Litigation in Canada: A Panel Discussion on the Mathur Case

Summary by Grace Lowes Climate Justice in the Courts: Insights from Mathur v. Ontario  Last week, Osgoode Hall Law School hosted Julia Croome and Fraser Thompson of EcoJustice for a discussion about Mathur v. Ontario, a groundbreaking climate litigation case brought forward by seven youth plaintiffs. Hosted by the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human […]

Event recap "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Challenges for Non-State Actors in Climate Governance"

Summary by Grace Lowes Climate change is a global crisis that demands collaborative action across all sectors of society. While state governments traditionally dominate discussions on climate policy, non-state actors, including corporations, private landholders, educational institutions and municipalities, play an increasingly critical role. This dynamic shift formed the focus of the panel discussion Mountains Beyond Mountains: […]

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.