Author: PJ

A law lecturer and academic by profession, I share my perspectives on issues ranging from the Protection of International Human Rights and its relationship with International Relations to principles of Domestic and International Criminal Law, Criminology and Equity and Trusts. I graduated with an LLB, PGCL (Equity and Trusts) , PGDL (Criminal Justice), LLM (Criminology) from the University of London and an MA (Distinction) in Human Rights and Global Ethics with the University of Leicester's Politics and International Relations department.

The Feminist gaze: recognizing victims of unjust gender relations

This paper argues that feminist perspectives on sexual violence and other human rights abuses committed against women contribute in significant … More

Recognizing the Crime of Genocide for what it is….

This paper draws from the works of Genocide scholars such as Daniel Feierstein to argue that understanding the crime of … More

Cambodia’s lost souls

My recent visit to Phnom Penh in Cambodia and the outlying killing fields at Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre stirred unsettling … More

Believing lies: the Politics of controlling human thought

Have you ever questioned why you believe what you believe? Why, for instance, do some believe the claims of Aung … More

An ongoing genocide in Gaza

Revisionist Zionism’s settler colonialist ideology: Contributing to an ongoing genocide in Gaza (This is an edited version of an original … More

The UNHCR

Journal Article Analysis: Loescher, Gil (2001) ‘’The UNHCR and World Politics: State Interests vs. Institutional Autonomy’’, International Migration Review, 35:1, … More

State Terrorism

*(Originally submitted to the University of Leicester, Politics and International Relations Dept. on 13th June 2018) Introduction: This essay … More

The idea of Universal Human Rights

Critically assess the theoretical and/or practical limits to the idea of universal human rights. *(Originally submitted to the University of … More

Political Violence

Journal Review Mark Muhannad Ayyash, ‘The paradox of political violence’ European Journal of Social Theory August 2013 vol. 16 no. 3, … More

The International Criminal Court

‘The tide has finally turned. Today, those responsible for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other gross violations of … More

Liberal Interventionism in UK’s Foreign Policy

Journal Article Analysis Liberal Intervention in the Foreign Policy Thinking of Tony Blair and David Cameron’, with Pauline Schnapper, Cambridge … More

Instrumentality of International law: a tale of deceit

”The individual human being ……is the ultimate unit of all law.” (Hersch Lauterpacht, 1943, creator of the legal concept, ‘Crimes against … More