28 October 2025

The Harms of Speech

The United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down state restrictions that prohibit medical professionals from engaging in so-called “conversion therapy,” or efforts to make a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) person heterosexual or cisgender. Although the Supreme Court has declined to hear similar challenges in the past, the arc of its First Amendment jurisprudence and its skepticism of constitutional claims involving sexual and reproductive rights suggest that the restriction at issue is likely to be invalidated. Continue reading >>
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01 October 2025

Margarette May Macaulay

Since childhood, Margarette May Macaulay has stood up for her own rights and those of people less privileged than herself. A former judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and past President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), she has dedicated her professional and voluntary work to advancing the rights of women, children, migrants, and other marginalized groups. Continue reading >>
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14 January 2021

A Childish Idea

After decades of partisan debates on the constitutional status of children, a working group of the governing coalition finally agreed on an amendment to the German Constitution (Basic Law) which would incorporate the rights of the child into Article 6 (2). Although this step would fulfil a central promise of the government, the proposed amendment in its current version would be incompatible with international and European law. Continue reading >>
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