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.

Judicial Lawmaking in the New Frontiers of Canadian Corporate Social Litigation

Professor Hassan Ahmad is undertaking this two-year SSHRC-funded project to identify the doctrinal and conceptual challenges and opportunities that arise from nascent and even novel types of domestic and transnational harm caused by Canadian corporations. The project aims to provide a foundation for a judicially-based framework of corporate liability for harms incurred as a result […]

Double Standards and International Law: Highlights from the Workshop in Geneva

Summary by Puhiza Shemsedini The Nathanson Centre supported a three-day workshop titled “How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?” co-organized by Nathanson Centre Fellow David Hughes alongside Patryk Labuda (Central European University), Nico Krish (Geneva Graduate Institute), Naz Modirzadeh (Harvard Law School), and Dustin Lewis (Harvard Law School). From May 15 to […]

Navigating Crisis: Law, Technology, and Global Governance at the Nathanson Centre Event

Summary by Grace Lowes At a time when the world grapples with political instability, technological upheaval, and shifting legal paradigms, on March 5th, The Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre hosted a panel series event centred on the theme of “crisis.” Three panels explored crises in governance, taxation, corporate power, incarceration, and the law’s role in […]

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.