The Justice Department yesterday announced a task force aimed at identifying ways to protect reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. [read post]

I was looking at histories of civil liberty lawyering across territories that had been part of the British empire, most of my lawyers were engaged in resisting the powers of a variety of Emergency regimes, be it during anti-colonial wars of independence (Kenya, Malaysia, Cyprus); struggles of postcolonial state formation (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), or during military occupation (postwar Europe). [read post]