The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

Celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.

East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders; so should ours.

Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine.

The stakes of religious exemption challenges.

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.