On the 4th of February 2025, the President of El Salvador offered the United States of America ‘the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system’, transferring convicted U.S. criminals into the Salvadoran mega-prison (CECOT) ‘in exchange for a fee.’ Amidst an increasingly fragile rule of law, mounting carceral expansion and documented human rights abuses in Salvadoran prisons since the beginning of the country’s state of emergency, it is imperative to outline the potential human rights implications for the transferred prisoners in the likelihood that the plan will become a reality.
International Law and Democracy
Electoral Dysfunction: Romania’s Election Annulment, Disinformation, and ECHR Positive Obligations to Combat Election Irregularities
In a historical year for global democratic elections, Romania’s presidential election is the latest European election to have elicited controversy. Days prior to the scheduled second round of voting, the country’s constitutional court annulled the results of the first round voting results. The constitutional court’s decision, which will necessitate a fresh vote, arose in response to…
New Oxford/Dublin research: Public majorities worldwide support a democratic world government focused on global issues
As last week’s UN Summit of the Future aimed for bold actions, our new study in the International Studies Quarterly finds that citizens around the world indeed support very far-reaching reforms of global governance. Overwhelming majorities in various countries across the global South, North, East, and West support the creation of a…