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.

Mining and the Clean Energy Transition: Insights from Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall

Summary by Grace Lowes In a recent book talk, journalist Christopher Pollon explored the complexities of modern mining and its role in the clean energy transition, as detailed in his book Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places. Pollon’s discussion, enriched by commentary from mining law expert Sara Ghebremusse, provided a stark view of […]

Event Recap: Or Emet Lecture “Will America’s President be a National Security Threat?” by Professor Harold Hongju Koh

Summary by Dinithi Jayasuriya On October 10th, 2024, Professor Harold Hongju Koh joined the Nathanson Centre to present the Or Emet lecture, “Will America’s President be a National Security Threat?”. This lecture is based on his forthcoming book, The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century. This book focuses on the overlooked American constitutional crisis, […]

A DATABASE TO SUPPORT DETAILED ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION

 Investment treaties have become a bugbear for governments and the people they represent. Their stated and laudable goal has long been to protect investors from unjustified discrimination or abuse in host states. But the treaties have been taken far beyond this advertised purpose into a wild west of international adjudication: forum-shopped claims, creative expansion of […]

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.