Angeleri and colleagues submit a shadow report to the European Committee of Social Rights on the implementation of labour rights in Ireland

Highlights, Publications

Stefano Angeleri – with his colleagues Eimear Spain and Jennifer Schweppe (School of Law), and Dr Majka Ryan (Work & Employment Studies) – all members of UL’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Hate and Inequalities (SHINE), have submitted, in...

Comparative Law and Social Justice – Essays in Honour of Professor Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou

Publications

This collective volume honours Professor Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou and her distinguished academic career of nearly three decades at the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her internationally recognised scholarship focuses on comparative...

Koldo Casla publishes his book “The Social Right to Property” (Elgar, 2026)

Publications

In this book, Dr Koldo Casla, proposes that property should be reinterpreted as a social right, arguing from the perspective of human rights and the social function that ownership must serve not only private interests but also the interests of the community. Positing...

Lorenza Mola’s new article on “The Legal Relevance of ‘Social Cohesion’ in the Framework of the Council of Europe: a Systemic and Evolutionary Appraisal”, on “Diritti umani e diritto internazionale, Rivista quadrimestrale” 3/2025, pp. 663-685, doi: 10.12829/119533 (in Italian)

Publications

The concept of ‘social cohesion’ penetrated the political and legal sphere of the European continent in the last decade of the last century. In 2004, the Council of Europe elaborated an articulated and widely adopted definition. Yet, neither the Statute of...

Dr Stefano Angeleri’s chapter in the “Research Handbook on Human Rights Law and Health” (Elgar 2025)

Publications

Dr Angeleri’s chapter, “Pursuing Health Rights for Distressed Migrants: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Inputs and Legal Literacy,” examines the specific challenges involved in securing health rights for migrant populations and, in doing so, highlights both the potential...

Amanda Cahill-Ripley, “Socio-Economic Rights in Times of Crisis and Normality. Article 4 Limitations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” (Bristol University Press, 2025)

Publications

This groundbreaking book explores the under examined nature and scope of Article 4 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which governs permissible restrictions on these rights. Challenging the assumption that such limitations...