Invigorating human rights academia
Volume 2, published October 2009
It is a delight to welcome this second edition of the UCL Human Rights Review. UCL has been a pioneer in the field of student-edited journals of high academic quality. This volume brings together scholarly contributions from students and from academic staff under a student Editor-in-Chief, this year Pasquale Annicchino, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief, this year Justin Leslie. They have proved that last year’s outstanding volume was not just a flash in the pan.
This year the ‘Law Lords’…
Volume 1, published October 2008
I was delighted, if rather surprised, to be asked to become the first Patron of the UCL Human Rights Review. The delight was to be involved in such a valuable enterprise. The contents of this review are truly outstanding.
The idea of bringing together contributions from students and from staff under a student Editor-in-Chief works very well. It is common in the United States, where a student Barack Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review, but rare…