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Ex Parte Young And Federal Remedies For Human Rights Treaty Violations, David Sloss

Washington Law Review

The doctrine of Ex parte Young is typically described as an exception to the immunity granted by the Eleventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This Article contends that the Young doctrine also stands for the proposition that the Supremacy Clause creates an implied right of action for injunctive relief against state and local government officers who violate federal statutes or treaties. That right of action is available to plaintiffs who seek to enforce federal statutes or treaties against government officers unless Congress foreclosed the availability of a Young remedy when it enacted the statute, or the treaty makers foreclosed the …

Harmonic Convergence? Constitutional Criminal Procedure In An International Context, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

Throughout the world, a trend toward a shared - a constitutional - criminal procedure may be detected. It is evident in common-law, civil-law, and mixed systems: individual states like China adopt laws promising once-alien concepts like a presumption of innocence, even as supranational bodies like the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia debate how to adapt certain norms to a hybrid structure. Some have suggested that such developments may herald a harmonic convergence of criminal procedure rules. This Article examines the likelihood of such a convergence. It establishes as a keynote around which harmony may develop the model of constitutional …

Spotting Money Launderers: A Better Way To Fight Organized Crime?, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

Money laundering investigations have been much in the news of late. There have been stories that Radil Salinas de Gortari laundered kickbacks from drug traffickers while his brother was President of Mexico. That Ferdinand Marcos stashed nearly half a billion dollars in Swiss banks while he ruled the Philippines. That two of Mexico's largest banks have pleaded guilty to laundering charges stemming from a controversial U.S. sting operation. That the former prime minister of Ukraine pleaded guilty to Swiss charges that he laundered $9 million in stolen funds, even as he faced U.S. charges of laundering $114 million. And, of …

Beware Aggressors: In Times Of Conflict, The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You, Rachel M. Wittman

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Human Rights In Transition-- Freedom From Fear, Dorothea Beane

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Globalizing The Rule Of International Law At The Pre-Dawn Of A New Millennium, Sompong Sucharitkul

Fulbright Symposium

This is the Ninth Regional Meeting of the American Society of lnternational Law for the West, Northwest and Southwest regions which Golden Gate University School of Law has the honor to host this year, prior to the regular Annual Meeting of the American Society in Washington D.C. in April 2000.

It is at the same time the Tenth Annual Fulbright Symposium hosted by Golden Gate University School of Law with the cooperation and co-sponsorship of the Council of lnternational Exchange of Scholars (CIES) also with headquarters in Washington D.C.

The combined sessions of the Regional Meeting of the ASIL and …

Tenth Annual Fulbright Symposium On International Legal Problems, Peter Keane

Fulbright Symposium

Opening remarks by Prof. Peter Keane.

Globalizing The Rule Of International Law At The Pre-Dawn Of A New Millennium, Sompong Sucharitkul

The Sompong Sucharitkul Center for Advanced International Legal Studies

Following the close of the United Nations Decade of International Law on December 31, 1999, a new era has dawned within the American Society of International Law. The Group or Section involved in the United Nations Decade of International Law has renewed its continuing interests in international legal developments under the newly acquired title of UN21 or United Nations Legal Developments in the Twenty-First Century. Setting aside the precise date at which the twenty-first century and the Third Millennium may be truly considered to start running, i.e., on January 1st, 2000 Y2K or 2001 Y2K + 1. It is clear …

"Draconian" Yet Constitutional: The Republic Of Ireland's Offences Against The State Act (1998), Sean R. Elsbernd

UC Law SF International Law Review

On August 15, 1998, a terrorist bomb exploded in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The 500-pound bomb, which detonated in the main marketplace of the city, killed twenty-eight people and injured more than 200 others. Following the tragedy, Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern pledged to bring those responsible to justice by making certain amendments to the Offences Against the State Act of 1939.

This Note discusses whether the Prime Minister and the government of the Republic of Ireland succeeded in this task, and if their efforts conform to the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Autumn Of The Patriarch: The Pinochet Extradition Debacle And Beyond- Human Rights Clauses Compared To Traditional Derivative Protections Such As Double Criminality, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

This article will analyze human rights law to see whether it plays any role in the protection of the individual in the face of international extradition or other international cooperation in criminal matters. I will consider two approaches to extradition and human rights that seem to be vying for position in the world arena and the tension between them. The first is to apply the traditional statist exemptions to extradition, which sometimes have enabled a few human rights protections. This approach is based on the concept that states are the only subjects of international law. Thus, it is state's interests, …

Reforming Criminal Justice In Russia: Progress Report For The Twenty-First Century, Miranda Lathrop Barber

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Hague Convention On The Civil Aspects Of International Child Abduction: When Domestic Violence And Child Abuse Impact The Goal Of Comity, Jeanine Lewis

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Volume 13, Issue #1, Table Of Contents, University Of The Pacific, Mcgeorge School Of Law

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Making Room For A Serial Killer Within Canada's Faint Hope Statute: Clifford Olson, Master Manipulator In The Criminal Justice System, Sharon F. Carton

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Volume 13, Issue #2, Table Of Contents, University Of The Pacific, Mcgeorge School Of Law

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Vienna Convention On Consular Relations In The United States Courts, Kelly Trainer

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Extraditing Israeli Citizens To The United States- Extradition And Citizenship Dilemmas, Yaffa Zilbershats

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article will address the problems of extraditing Israeli citizens to the United States from both a normative and substantive perspective. The analysis will lead to a conclusion that the United States and Israel should adopt an amendment to the United States-Israel extradition treaty based on the new provision of the Israeli law regarding the extradition of its citizens. This analysis will also support general conclusions regarding the definitions of extradition and citizenship.

Post-Cold War International Security Threats: Terrorism, Drugs, And Organized Crime Symposium Transcript, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

Symposium transcript.

The Legacy Of Geographical Morality And Colonialism: A Historical Assessment Of The Current Crusade Against Corruption, Padideh Ala'i

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This Article examines the legacy of the rule of geographical morality - that is the norm by which a citizen of the country in the North may engage in acts of corruption in any country in the South, including bribery and extortion, without the attachment of any moral condemnation to those acts. Part I of the Article begins by reviewing the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, who served as Governor General of the Bengal from 1772-1785, on charges of bribery and corruption. It was during that impeachment proceeding when the words "principles of geographical morality" were used by, the prosectuor, …

Does A Defendant Have Unlimited Entitlement To Be Represented By The Attorney Of His/Her Choice, When The Attorney Is Appointed By The Trial Chamber?, Tami L. Roberts

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.

On What Grounds Does A Defendant Have The Right To Substitute Counsel?, Lesly J. Michelot Ii

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.

The Rights Of The Accused In A Global Enforcement Arena, Diane Marie Amann

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

It is a commonplace that crime, no less than other industries, has become a global venture.

The Finality Of Judgment And Sentence Prerequisite In The United States-Peru Bilateral Prisoner Transfer Treaty: Calling Congress And The President To Reform And Justifying Jurisdiction Of The Inter-American Human Rights Commission And Court, 15 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 1071 (2000), Ralph Ruebner, Lisa Carroll

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Sheinbein Legacy: Israel's Refusal To Grant Extradiction As A Model Of Complexity, Jesse Hallee

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Finality Of Judgment And Sentence Prerequisite In The United States-Peru Bilateral Prisoner Transfer Treaty: Calling Congress And The President To Reform And Justifying Jurisdiction Of The Inter-American Human Rights Commission And Court, Ralph Ruebner, Lisa Carroll

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

International Law And Practice: Dealing With The Past In The South African Experience, Kader Asmal

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Tools For Enforcing International Criminal Justice In The New Millennium: Lessons From The Yugoslavia Tribunal, Michael P. Scharf

Faculty Publications

It is one thing to create an international institution devoted to enforcing international justice; it is quite another to make international justice work. Unlike the Nuremberg Tribunal, whose orders were implemented by the Allied occupation forces, the ICC will have no constabulary. In the absence of a direct enforcement mechanism, the ICC will have to rely on state cooperation and indirect means of inducing compliance with its arrest orders and requests for judicial cooperation.

The range of enforcement measures potentially available to the ICC include: (1) condemnation of non-cooperation by the Assembly of State Parties or the U.N. Security Council; …

Guatemalan "Justice Centers": The Centerpiece For Advancing Transparency, Efficiency, Due Process, And Access To Justice, Steven E. Hendrix

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Conflicts Of Law And Policy In The Caribbean -- Human Rights And The Enforcement Of The Death Penalty -- Between A Rock And A Hard Place, David A. C. Simmons

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Issues Of Concern To Developing And Transitional Countries, Frank Upham, Martin Bohmer, Felix Morka, Linas Sesickas, Futoshi Toyama

Fordham International Law Journal

Led by moderator Frank Upham, the panelists discussed legal aid in the context of societies transitioning from one form of social order to another, and the institution-building that is required.