As part of my English revolution reading, prompted by Arden’s Left Handed Liberty, I took a look at Magna Carta itself, what did it codify/concede? How relevant is it today? Here are my notes. … Continue reading “Magna Carta”
Magna Carta
Tag: human rights
Constitutionalism beyond Liberalism
I was challenged by Michael Wilkinson of the LSE on my interpretation of he importance of the Cherry/Miller ruling on the legality of the 2019 prorogue. Suggested or discovered reading, included a review of a book he co-edited. My notes have lain around on my hard disk and I decided to tidy them up. Here are my notes and thoughts. From the reviews, I’d say the title is provocative but it might have a jargon meaning about which I am unclear. … Continue reading “Constitutionalism beyond Liberalism”
Venezuela
On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy … Continue reading “Venezuela”
GDPR & the US Privacy Shield
I have just come back from a course on European Data Protection, the issue of standard clauses and Trans-Atlantic data flows was raised, I decided to blog on it, here are some links that I used. Continue reading “GDPR & the US Privacy Shield”
Privacy & Human Rights at the UN
In 2013, AFAIK, the United Nations General Assembly, passed the UN Human Rights Commission proposal, The right to privacy in the digital age, the results of this led to the establishment of a Special Rapporteur on Privacy reporting to the OHRC. The SRoP reports once/year to the Human Rights Committee and once each year to the General Assembly which receives the report at its 3rd committee plenary (I think). I can’t find the reports, there ought to have been one in 2016, here is what I have found … Continue reading “Privacy & Human Rights at the UN”
Dictatorship and Plebiscites
For people casual acquainted with political theory, we know that dictators quite like plebiscites in a way that they dislike parliaments. We can see in the UK, the way in which some of the Brexiteers, but not their leadership, are frightened of both parliament’s consideration of interpreting the referendum result and/or running a second one. Continue reading “Dictatorship and Plebiscites”