Human Rights and Governance

An article I contributed to the Bar Association Journal March 2008
Various developing countries that are quite similar in terms of their natural resources and social structure have shown strikingly different performance in improving the welfare of their people. Why is this? Research suggests that some countries do better than others because they have ‘good governance’ [...]

Therapeutic Jurisprudence as a model for rehabilitation

An Article I contributed to the Bar Association Law Journal in May 2004
Therapeutic jurisprudence looks to the interface between mind and body for an explanation as to the cause of psychological and behavioural dysfunction and for the means of its resolution. According to this approach, the physical nervous system is the means by which the [...]

Wine is worse for brain than beer, for women drinkers

For women plagued by memory loss it seems the scientific remedy could be simple: drink less wine. Over-consumption of wine damages the brain more than drinking beer or spirits, scientists have discovered.
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