Sam BookmanSam Bookman

Sam Bookman is a human rights lawyer and doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, with a particular interest in comparative constitutional law

Simon Bridges needs to stop pandering to the alt-right on the Global Compact

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National MPs have been railing against the ‘Global Compact’. Sam Bookman sets the record straight on  the United Nations agreement and what it really means for immigration. As Kiwis, we consider ourselves pretty good global citizens. We like to believe that from our corner of the South Pacific we can play an outsized role in world … Read more

The story behind Israel’s ‘boycott law’, and how two Kiwis got caught up in a much gnarlier fight

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New Zealander Sam Bookman was working at the Supreme Court in Israel when the so-called ‘Boycott Law’ was being challenged. That law has now seen two NZ women targeted in the first ruling, over an open letter they wrote to Lorde last year. Here Bookman – no fan of the boycott movement – argues that … Read more