Human Rights and international Law Unit

Kerem Shalom, Israel – January 10, 2024: A truck carrying large, canvas-covered humanitarian aid packages at the Israel-Gaza Kerem Shalom border crossing.

ICJ tells Israel to let UN aid flow into Gaza – but UN’s own failures throughout the war loom large

November 11, 2025

People standing outside the school of law and social justice building who attended the council or europe summer school

University of Liverpool hosts second Summer School on Law of the Council of Europe

July 9, 2024

A board in an airport showing a cancelled flight to Rwanda

What is rule 39? UK government tells civil servants to ignore European court of human rights on Rwanda deportations

January 24, 2024

Dr Vssilis Tzevelekos

Law Academic appointed to prestigious Council of Europe Committee

December 13, 2023

Ascension Island landscape

Sending UK asylum seekers to Ascension Island is a legal non-starter

August 10, 2023

A small boat on the sea carrying a lot of people

Illegal migration bill: can the government ignore the European court of human rights?

April 27, 2023

A human rights lawyer on why Ireland should repeal the eighth amendment

May 25, 2018

Comment: Trump, torture and black sites

January 26, 2017

Shami Chakrabarti

Director of National Council for Civil Liberties to give public lecture

June 9, 2015

European court of Human Rights

The Liverpool View: What’s the point of human rights?

September 19, 2014