Acknowledgement I live, research and write on Quandamooka Country, amid lands, waters, winds and ancient living cultures.

I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and to the continuing custodianship of Quandamooka people. Sovereignty never ceded

Philippe Foubert Writer · Researcher · Ethicist
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Blue Lake (Kaboora) on Minjerribah, North Stradbroke Island, south-east Queensland

Australian Essays

Racism written into statute, the protection regimes, the schooling of national memory, and what truth-telling requires before it can be codified.

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The United States Supreme Court building at dusk, Washington DC

American Essays

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that government must treat every person fairly and equally. A court emptied it once while leaving every word in place, and the same operation is running now.

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The Peace Palace, The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice

International Essays

The law that is supposed to bind states to one another, and what happens to protected persons and protected places when it does not.

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