RightsUp: The Oxford Human Rights Hub Podcast

Oxford Human Rights Hub

RightsUp explores the big human rights issues of the day through interviews with experts, academics, practicing lawyers, activists and policy makers who are at the forefront of tackling the world's most difficult human rights questions.

  • 39 minutes 19 seconds
    Discrimination Law - Part 3

    In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of which was published by Oxford University Press in December 2022. Sandra Fredman FBA KC is Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University, a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is joined in conversation by Rosalie Abella, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Jayna Kothari, a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India; and Helen Mountfield KC, a barrister practising at Matrix Chambers in the UK and Principal of Mansfield College Oxford.

    27 March 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 34 minutes 22 seconds
    Discrimination Law - Part 2

    In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of which was published by Oxford University Press in December 2022. Sandra Fredman FBA KC is Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University, a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is joined in conversation by Rosalie Abella, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Jayna Kothari, a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India; and Helen Mountfield KC, a barrister practising at Matrix Chambers in the UK and Principal of Mansfield College Oxford.

    15 March 2024, 4:57 pm
  • 43 minutes 23 seconds
    Discrimination Law - Part 1

    In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of which was published by Oxford University Press in December 2022. Sandra Fredman FBA KC is Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University, a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is joined in conversation by Rosalie Abella, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Jayna Kothari, a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India; and Helen Mountfield KC, a barrister practising at Matrix Chambers in the UK and Principal of Mansfield College Oxford.

    1 March 2024, 1:59 pm
  • 30 minutes 15 seconds
    A Historic Moment: Indian Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision

    In October 2023, a historic decision was made by the Indian Supreme Court that held that there was no fundamental right to marry, denying the legal recognition for same-sex marriage in India under the Special Marriage Act. Frances Hand sat down with Devina Malaviya, to discuss the intricacies of this case Supriyo v. Union of India. Devina Malaviya is an Assistant Professor of Legal Practice and Assistant Dean in Clinical Legal Education at O.P. Jindal Global University. Devina's interests lie in the area of family law, constitutional law and criminal law. After graduating from National Law University in Delhi in 2016, she worked as a law clerk, cum research assistant with Justice Kurian Joseph at the Supreme Court of India.

    22 January 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 9 minutes 56 seconds
    Catherine Briddick on the UK Rwanda Decision

    Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/).

    5 December 2023, 3:02 pm
  • 15 minutes 40 seconds
    Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill

    Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/).

    24 March 2023, 11:00 am
  • 29 minutes 16 seconds
    Gendered Constitutionalism

    In this week's episode, we talk to Ruth Rubio, Professor in the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, about her book, Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion, published by Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 9781316630303).


    Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk

    24 January 2023, 12:30 pm
  • 22 minutes 38 seconds
    Protests in Iran and Human Rights

    In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Saeed Bagheri, lecturer of International Law at the University of Reading about the women-led protests in Iran, sparked in response to the arrest of Mahsa Amini by the morality police and her subsequent death.

    Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk

    12 January 2023, 11:55 am
  • 50 minutes 1 second
    A Conversation with Justice Majiedt of the South African Constitutional Court

    In this episode, we speak to Justice Steven Majiedt of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on the unique history of South African constitutionalism, whether the constitution can bring about transformation and the future of socio-economic rights protection in light of COVID and the cost-of-living crisis.

    1 December 2022, 2:26 pm
  • 37 minutes 53 seconds
    The Cost of Living Crisis and Human Rights

    In this episode we spoke to Allison Corkery and MarĂ­a Emilia Mamberti at the Centre for Economic and Social Rights about what human rights bring to the current cost of living crisis.

    9 November 2022, 12:41 pm
  • 12 minutes 4 seconds
    Gauri Pillai on the Indian Abortion Decision

    Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/).

    11 October 2022, 1:30 pm
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