International Journal of Law and Society

Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2020

  • ‘Beat Your Plowshares into Swords and Your Pruninghooks into Spears’: A Contextual Critique of Expulsion Decisions and Appeal Rights in the United Kingdom

    Cosmas Ukachukwu Ikegwuruka, Linus Chukwuemeka Okere

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 39-46
    Received: 13 February 2020
    Accepted: 11 March 2020
    Published: 12 May 2020
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    Abstract: The putative question is whether the United Kingdom complies with its treaty obligations under International Human Rights Law (IHRL) in the expulsion of migrants? The debate is that expulsion laws as they stand may have been contrived to enhance deportability or removability. It is further argued that the ever increasing and shifting pattern of dep... Show More
  • Immigration Control, Citizenship, the Interplay of Sovereignty and the Vicissitudes of the Hostile Environment in the United Kingdom

    Cosmas Ukachukwu Ikegwuruka

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 47-59
    Received: 10 March 2020
    Accepted: 30 March 2020
    Published: 12 May 2020
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    Abstract: In so far as individual States can maintain sovereignty over its internal affairs, they are nonetheless accountable to upholding certain principles and standards in the exercise of sovereignty, thereby calling for a reconciliation of sovereignty with universality of human rights law. In essence, international human rights obligations require States... Show More
  • The Importance of Class Actions for the Evolution of the Brazilian Collective Procedure

    Luciano Picoli Gagno, Thiago Felipe Vargas Simões, João Bruno Costa Rodil

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 60-67
    Received: 16 January 2020
    Accepted: 13 February 2020
    Published: 28 May 2020
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    Abstract: In the present article, was investigated the contribution that the american experience with the class actions could offer to the Brazilian Collective Procedure and the idea of collectivization of individual lawsuits. Based on this proposal, were analyzed institutes of the Rule 23 related to the class action prerequisites, the types of class actions... Show More
  • ‘As It Was in the Beginning’: An Examination of the Convergence, Divergence and Dilemmas of Immigration Practices in Some Selected liberal Democratic States

    Cosmas Ikegwuruka, Ugonna Chimnonyerem Nkwunonwo

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 68-77
    Received: 13 February 2020
    Accepted: 11 March 2020
    Published: 28 May 2020
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    Abstract: This paper holds the view that the burgeoning phenomenon of immigration control sits uncomfortably on the fault line separating the prerogatives of State sovereignty from the rights of non-citizens regardless of the broad discretion of States to control immigration. Using liberal democratic ideologies, the paper expresses that, there is in existenc... Show More