On Slavery Remembrance Day 2025, Celestine Greenwood reflects on the deep entanglement of Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds with the transatlantic slave trade — and reaffirms the obligation of those who practice law in those cities to champion racial equality.
On World Day for International Justice, Celestine Greenwood reflects on Srebrenica, the ICC’s record and limitations, and the duty of lawyers to advocate for justice — for those for whom the law has come too late, as well as those still waiting.
Can — and should — judicial activism protect humans from the serious danger of climate change? Celestine Greenwood examines the ECtHR’s landmark KlimaSeniorinnen ruling and asks whether courts have both the legitimacy and the obligation to act where democratic institutions have failed.
Celestine Greenwood asks: what are girls’ human rights, why are they routinely denied — even in the UK — and what can lawyers and citizens do about it? Drawing on her work with the Cambridge Girls Human Rights Hub.
On Slavery Remembrance Day, Celestine Greenwood reflects on Liverpool’s deep entanglement with the transatlantic slave trade — and the obligations that history places on those who practice law in its shadow today.
Part 2 of Celestine Greenwood’s 16 Days series: the CEDAW Committee’s jurisprudence on violence against women — and why it has practical relevance for family and human rights practitioners in England and Wales.
Part 1 of Celestine Greenwood’s 16 Days series: a guide to the international legal framework for addressing violence against women and girls, from CEDAW to the Istanbul Convention, and its application in English law.
Celestine Greenwood’s contribution to the Feminist International Judgments Project: a feminist rewriting of the ICTY judgment in Prosecutor v Radovan Karadžić, published in Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019).