Justice

While political measures to protect the climate are slow, citizens take their governments or polluting companies to court to hold them accountable.

A legal system that prioritises the conservation of the living world over private property would be a powerful tool for ecological transition.

A French petition to have the state’s duty and failure to act on climate recognised is part of a global movement which is picking up speed.

Drawing on political theory and environmental philosophy, Jeff Justice makes the case for legitimate rebellion in the face of government inaction on climate.

Today, the UDHR remains an important reference point and source of inspiration for activists across the globe.

Annabelle Dawson
gathers 10 voices looking
forward to a Europe in
2049 where the gendered
structures of power and
violence have crumbled
in the face of feminism,
awareness and equality.

Romania has done more than any other member state to fight corruption, but the EU keeps demanding impossible measures.

New surveillance technologies and AI are rapidly transforming policing, but what does this mean for civil liberties?

Thanks to energetic grassroots campaigning and a steady shift in social attitudes, women in Ireland have finally won the right to choose whether to have child or not.

For some, the gig economy is the new reality of work and opportunity. For others, it is a return to power relations that labour law hoped to, and perhaps still can, stamp out.