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The Reasonable Suspicion Test Of Northern Ireland's Emergency Legislation: A Violation Of The European Convention Of Human Rights, Elizabeth Kondonijakos Jul 1996

The Reasonable Suspicion Test Of Northern Ireland's Emergency Legislation: A Violation Of The European Convention Of Human Rights, Elizabeth Kondonijakos

Buffalo Journal of International Law

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Getting Away With Murder: Social Cleansing In Colombia And The Role Of The United States, Elizabeth F. Schwartz Jan 1996

Getting Away With Murder: Social Cleansing In Colombia And The Role Of The United States, Elizabeth F. Schwartz

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Race Discourse And Proposition 187, John Sw Park Jan 1996

Race Discourse And Proposition 187, John Sw Park

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Proposition 187 inspired a visceral public discourse. Proponents and opponents of the measure discussed several themes important to contemporary political theory, particularly themes related to sovereignty and civil rights. This Note shows how participants in that debate-including people of color-spoke of "rights" in a way that denied the possibility for undocumented aliens to have rights. When citizens spoke, they did so in a way that implicitly linked rights to citizenship; in other words, they assumed that without citizenship, persons were not entitled to rights or rights-based claims. Ironically, the debate about Proposition 187 pointed to the achievements of a "civil …


Report Regarding Implementation Of The American Bar Association's Recommendations And Resolutions Concerning The Death Penalty And Calling For A Moratorium On Executions, Lyn Entzeroth, Randall Coyne Jan 1996

Report Regarding Implementation Of The American Bar Association's Recommendations And Resolutions Concerning The Death Penalty And Calling For A Moratorium On Executions, Lyn Entzeroth, Randall Coyne

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Lessons From The Americas: Guidelines For International Response To Amnesties For Atrocities, Douglass Cassel Jan 1996

Lessons From The Americas: Guidelines For International Response To Amnesties For Atrocities, Douglass Cassel

Journal Articles

Amnesty guidelines modeled on international law as defined by Latin American tribunals and treaties should be adopted and used by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and national governments involved in remedying human rights violations. The 10 guidelines are stringent and would rarely result in the granting of amnesty. They may better serve their function than treaties or customary laws be cause they are guidelines and not mandatory.


The World Bank, The Imf, And Human Rights, Daniel D. Bradlow Jan 1996

The World Bank, The Imf, And Human Rights, Daniel D. Bradlow

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This paper explores the type of human rights obligations of the World Bank and the IMF. It argues that their human rights obligations can be divided into two sets of issues. First is operational issues, which relate to both the promotion and protection of human rights. Second is institutional issues, which deal with the internal rules and procedures of the World Bank and the IMF. The paper concludes that these organizations need to develop a coherent and explicit human rights policy.


Speaking The Language Of Exclusion: How Equal Protection And Fundamental Rights Analyses Permit Language Discrimination (Comment), Donna F. Coltharp Jan 1996

Speaking The Language Of Exclusion: How Equal Protection And Fundamental Rights Analyses Permit Language Discrimination (Comment), Donna F. Coltharp

Faculty Articles

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George Bush's America Meets Dante's Inferno: The Americans With Disabilities Act In Prison, Ira P. Robbins Dec 1995

George Bush's America Meets Dante's Inferno: The Americans With Disabilities Act In Prison, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

Introduction: The conditions in America's correctional facilities have long been cause for concern. Even those who do not advocate a comfortable quality of life for inmates recognize that basic problems such as overcrowding, inmate violence,' inadequate staffing,2 and increasing costs of building and maintaining prisons have approached crisis levels. Meanwhile, the prison population continues to swell. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the United States Department of Justice, the number of prisoners incarcerated at state and federal prisons annually has grown at a rate of 8.4% in recent years.'