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The principle of proportionality has enjoyed extraordinary success over the last decades: it has become a staple of international and constitutional adjudication on fundamental rights; it has been espoused by civil and common law judges alike, and described as the “principle of principles” and the “ultimate rule of law”. But what does proportionality mean for the idea of human rights?

In a new report the Freedom Rights Project presents a snap shot of the body of human rights instruments that have appeared within the past few decades, totalling 667 individual provisions in the United Nations system and 710 in the Council of Europe. The result is not only needless complexity, but also real damage to the protection and credibility of human rights.

When it comes to human rights, less is more, FRP’s Jacob Mchangama and Guglielmo Verdirame argue in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. If human rights were a currency, its value would be in free fall, thanks to a gross inflation in the number of human rights treaties and nonbinding international instruments adopted by international organizations over the last several decades. These days, this currency is som

Britain's Royal Charter on the Press is founded on a misconception: that speech should be free only if "right" or "accurate". This misconception will spread. It will penetrate institutions and change our free habits, writes FRP's Guglielmo Verdirame at Conservative Home.