Nihal Jayawickrama

Nihal Jayawickrama is former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong, Ariel F Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Executive Director of Transparency International.

November 11, 2026

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Trump’s Two Faces: A Letter of Love, an Act of Insurrection

Former US president Joe Biden says Donald Trump should be haunted for the rest of his life by the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, describing his predecessor and successor

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Morocco’s ‘Forever’ Claim: Who Owns Western Sahara?

Morocco has declared that Western Sahara will remain under its sovereignty “until the end of time”, intensifying its confrontation with Algeria and the supporters of Sahrawi independence at the United Nations, just days after a diplomatic deadlock brought an end

November 11, 2026

France’s Presidential Race: 39 Candidates and Counting

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

France’s 2027 presidential election is attracting an extraordinary field of potential candidates, with 39 people having already declared or formalised their ambitions and another

Teenagers Take Porn Industry to Parliament

Editor's Choice/Human Rights

A group of 15 teenage girls in southeast England has taken its campaign against the sexualisation of school uniforms to the British Parliament, calling

Reforming Executive Authority: A Race Against the Clock

February 18, 2024

Judiciary/Politics

Earlier this week, the President’s Media Division issued a statement to the effect that the next presidential election will be held on schedule. What was the need for that statement? In terms

Sri Lanka: On That Pardon

January 28, 2024

Judiciary/Politics

The Attorney-General had indicted 13 persons on 17 counts including murder following the death of one Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra in 2012. In September 2016, in the High Court of Colombo, at the