Human Rights Language: Freedom of Religion and the Sharia Speaker

The liberal Western language of Human Rights has dominated the discourse to the exclusion of any and all other épistémologies. The question now is: is there an alternative understanding of human dignity enshrined in a different language? Freedom of religion has been seen by Western thinkers to be void within the system of the Sharia. …

The Judicialization of Politics: Lessons from Brazil

Judicial activism may sound like old news. Legal scholarship has already spent a considerable amount of ink analyzing the politicization of courts and its impacts on the doctrine of separation of power. In this respect, it seems clear to most that adjudication is far from apolitical and that courts would hardly be the bouche de …