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The Supreme Court's Treatment Of Same-Sex Marriage In United States V. Windsor And Hollingsworth V. Perry: Analysis And Implications, Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin Jan 2014

The Supreme Court's Treatment Of Same-Sex Marriage In United States V. Windsor And Hollingsworth V. Perry: Analysis And Implications, Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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When Quacking Like A Duck Is Really A Swan Song In Disguise: How Windsor's State Powers Analysis Sets The Stage For The Demise Of Federalism-Based Marriage Discrimination, Nancy C. Marcus Jan 2014

When Quacking Like A Duck Is Really A Swan Song In Disguise: How Windsor's State Powers Analysis Sets The Stage For The Demise Of Federalism-Based Marriage Discrimination, Nancy C. Marcus

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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"Maladaptive" Federalism: The Structural Barriers To Coordination Of State Sustainability Initiatives, Jim Rossi Jan 2014

"Maladaptive" Federalism: The Structural Barriers To Coordination Of State Sustainability Initiatives, Jim Rossi

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Volume 65 Issue 1 (2014), Case Western Reserve Law Review Jan 2014

Volume 65 Issue 1 (2014), Case Western Reserve Law Review

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Canada V. United States Of America, Chios Carmody Jan 2014

Canada V. United States Of America, Chios Carmody

Canada-United States Law Journal

The article focuses on the legal issues related to the 2014 Niagara Problem provided to judges in Niagara Moot Court Competition. Topics discussed include right to protect from terrorism by freezing the sale of a yacht where the proceeds were intended to pay a ransom to pirates, obligation exists under international law to recognize same-sex marriage and customary international law.


Our Years As Editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo Jan 2014

Our Years As Editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo

Societies Without Borders

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Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala By Egla Martínez-Salazar, Andrew Crookston Jan 2014

Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala By Egla Martínez-Salazar, Andrew Crookston

Societies Without Borders

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A Word From The New Editors, Bruce Friesen, Brian K. Gran Jan 2014

A Word From The New Editors, Bruce Friesen, Brian K. Gran

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.


Review Of Torture: A Sociology Of Violence And Human Rights By Lisa Hajjar, Jared Del Rosso Jan 2014

Review Of Torture: A Sociology Of Violence And Human Rights By Lisa Hajjar, Jared Del Rosso

Societies Without Borders

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Review Of A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’S Resurgence, From The Middle East To America By Leila Ahmed, Mohammand Salehin Jan 2014

Review Of A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’S Resurgence, From The Middle East To America By Leila Ahmed, Mohammand Salehin

Societies Without Borders

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Indigenous Methodology In Practice: Starting A Community-Based Research Center On The Yakama Reservation, Michelle M. Jacob, Sarah Augustine, Corey Hodge, Mary James Jan 2014

Indigenous Methodology In Practice: Starting A Community-Based Research Center On The Yakama Reservation, Michelle M. Jacob, Sarah Augustine, Corey Hodge, Mary James

Societies Without Borders

In our paper, we examine the process, possibilities, and tensions of building a new community-based research center at a small liberal arts college on the Yakama Reservation. We view our work with the Center for Native Health & Culture as an example of human rights-based educational transformation, as our work is about honoring indigenous land, community, and values. This mission stands at odds with Western educational approaches, which typically view indigenous peoples, cultures, and well-being as a side note to frequently marginalized campus diversity initiatives. Our work to establish the new research center takes up the challenge of placing indigenous …


The Rise Of Human Rights Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Future Possibilities, Lindsey N. Kingston Jan 2014

The Rise Of Human Rights Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Future Possibilities, Lindsey N. Kingston

Societies Without Borders

Human rights education (HRE) has gained increasing support as a tool for promoting social responsibility and global respect for international human rights standards. Many schools and universities include HRE in their curricula in an attempt to foster a sense of global citizenship among students, yet educators still grapple with how to most effectively include human rights in undergraduate programs. In an attempt to provide resources and to promote effective HRE, this article examines the rise of human rights education and analyzes its potential for positive change. In particular, high impact learning practices (such as community partnerships and short-term study abroad …


“It Is Laced With Faults”: American Indians, Public Participation And The Politics Of Siting A High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, Jesse P. Van Gerven Jan 2014

“It Is Laced With Faults”: American Indians, Public Participation And The Politics Of Siting A High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, Jesse P. Van Gerven

Societies Without Borders

In this article I analyze American Indian claims made during the siting process for a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. By utilizing the concepts of distribution and recognition (Fraser 2003) to analyze American Indian claims for financial compensation, cultural artifact/resource protection, and environmental justice I reveal the existence and extent of both objective and intersubjective obstacles preventing greater public participation in environmental decision-making. Through a textual/discourse analysis of public documents associated with the Yucca Mountain Project, my analysis demonstrates how distributive and recognitional injustices impede democratic participation in environmental decision-making, which contributes to the continuation of environmental …


Making Visible The Invisible: Nighttime Lights Data And The Closing Of The Human Rights Information Gap, Xi Chen Jan 2014

Making Visible The Invisible: Nighttime Lights Data And The Closing Of The Human Rights Information Gap, Xi Chen

Societies Without Borders

War, poverty, geographical remoteness and political isolation all contribute to unreliable or non-existent data for developing regions of the world. As a consequence, research within these areas has been hampered by an abject lack of data in underdeveloped regions. The satellite-based nighttime lights data introduced here may hold the potential to overcome this problem by providing a proxy measure for large numbers of variables dealing with second and third generation human rights issues. The images presented here represent some of the newest forms of data available to social science investigations and those interested in human rights studies, and are already …


African American Women, Hiv/Aids, And Human Rights In The Us, Monica L. Melton Jan 2014

African American Women, Hiv/Aids, And Human Rights In The Us, Monica L. Melton

Societies Without Borders

In the US alone, 84 percent of women’s HIV infections are due to heterosexual contact (CDC 2013). Fifty percent of all people globally who are living with HIV/AIDS are women (UNAIDS 2009), yet, HIV-positive women’s perspectives on prevention are mostly missing from the trajectory of scholarly literature on HIV/AIDS. I thought it imperative to go to the source (women living with HIV/AIDS) to get an insiders perspective on HIV prevention. Thirty HIV-positive Black women were recruited to participate in the study, which lasted seven months. These women live in a Florida innercity and range in age from 21 to 60. …


Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg Jan 2014

Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg

Societies Without Borders

Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing.


Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its “Others” By Janet M. Conway, Manisha Desai Jan 2014

Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its “Others” By Janet M. Conway, Manisha Desai

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From The Slave Trade To Human Trafficking By Joel Quirk, Annie Isabel Fukushima Jan 2014

Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From The Slave Trade To Human Trafficking By Joel Quirk, Annie Isabel Fukushima

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.


Political Battles On Women’S Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts And Violence Against Women In Internally Displaced Persons Camps In Kenya, Roseanne Njeri Njiru Jan 2014

Political Battles On Women’S Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts And Violence Against Women In Internally Displaced Persons Camps In Kenya, Roseanne Njeri Njiru

Societies Without Borders

The Kenya 2007 December presidential election results were violently challenged. For months, political protests accompanied by violent attacks and violent reaction by government security forces, led to “ethnic cleansing” particularly in the Rift Valley region resulting in deaths of more than 1,500 people and internal displacement of about 450,000 others. Women and young girls experienced various forms of gender violence during and after the conflicts in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. Using in-depth interviews with women living in a camp, NGOs and government agencies, this article focuses on the continuing bodily violence that internally displaced women face in their everyday …


Insiderness, Outsiderness, And Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate Un’S Commission On The Status Of Women, Daniela Jauk Jan 2014

Insiderness, Outsiderness, And Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate Un’S Commission On The Status Of Women, Daniela Jauk

Societies Without Borders

The goal of this article is to explain micro-political aspects of women’s participation within the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) by explicating how NonGovernmental Organization’s (NGO) representatives negotiate and perceive their work. Data from ethnographic participant observation of CSW meetings between 2009 and 2012 demonstrate the simultaneity of both clear insider/outsider distinctions as well as blurred and permeable boundaries between the intergovernmental body of the CSW and civil society in the form of women’s rights activists who attempt to shape CSW outcomes. Concepts of fluid insiderness and outsiderness (Naples 1996) help explain that women activists perceive themselves simultaneously …


Review Of Heart Of Sky, Heart Of Earth Directed By Frauke Sandig And Eric Black, Beth Williford Jan 2014

Review Of Heart Of Sky, Heart Of Earth Directed By Frauke Sandig And Eric Black, Beth Williford

Societies Without Borders

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Transwomen, The Prison-Industrial Complex, And Human Rights: Neoliberalism And Trans-Resistance, Emmi Bevensee Jan 2014

Transwomen, The Prison-Industrial Complex, And Human Rights: Neoliberalism And Trans-Resistance, Emmi Bevensee

Societies Without Borders

This article introduces complexity into understandings around the relationships between human rights, being transgender, and interacting with the prison-industrial complex. It looks at struggles and interventions against neoliberal mainstream agendas that do not address the underlying causes of state violence against transpeople, especially trans women of color. This essay employs in-depth research and analysis primarily employing the lens and tools of intersectional subalternity, personal experience, and extensive community activism around these complex issues to show that human rights struggles that do not challenge neoliberal politics generally fail to meet the needs of trans people facing massive structural violence with the …


Review Of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, And Memory By Rene Lemarchand (Editor), Nicole Fox Jan 2014

Review Of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, And Memory By Rene Lemarchand (Editor), Nicole Fox

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.


Pride In Istanbul, Susan C. Pearce Jan 2014

Pride In Istanbul, Susan C. Pearce

Societies Without Borders

In June of 2013, Istanbul, Turkey held its annual Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Pride parade. This year’s parade was performed in a particular historical context: in the midst of an anti-government uprising that had begun in Istanbul and spread throughout Turkey. This context loaned a particular flavor to the Pride parade, and there was a reciprocity between the recent protest movement and LGBT activism. These field notes describe the June 2013 parade and its relationship to the socio-political context, drawing from these observations some preliminary conclusions regarding human rights and gender as Turkey interacts with transnational human rights regimes such …


The Nafta Alternative: Saving Korus Fta Dumping Appeals From The Dumps, Czarina Powell Jan 2014

The Nafta Alternative: Saving Korus Fta Dumping Appeals From The Dumps, Czarina Powell

Canada-United States Law Journal

Antidumping duties are a trade remedy often utilized against producers in the United States' own bilateral trading partners. Because of Chevron deference, foreign companies are at greater risk of being branded "dumpers" simply upon the onset of a petition. On March 15, 2013, the United States celebrated the one-year anniversary of the signing into force of the Korea-US (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement and its promise to eliminate barriers and tariffs.


Investment Arbitration Under Nafta Chapter 11: A Threat To Sovereignty Of Member States?, William L. Owen Jan 2014

Investment Arbitration Under Nafta Chapter 11: A Threat To Sovereignty Of Member States?, William L. Owen

Canada-United States Law Journal

Critics of NAFTA Chapter 11's investor state dispute settlement mechanism are primarily concerned with its invocation by corporate entities and its potential to effectively overturn or significantly weaken NAFTA states' ability to legislate or regulate in the public interest. This article will address this central concern and demonstrate, by evaluating Chapter 11 arbitration results, that these criticisms have been overstated


The Boundary Water Treaty 1909 -- A Peace Treaty?, Gordon Walker Q.C. Jan 2014

The Boundary Water Treaty 1909 -- A Peace Treaty?, Gordon Walker Q.C.

Canada-United States Law Journal

A speech that discusses relations between the U.S. and Canada with the Boundary Waters Treaty (BWT) of 1909, peace treaty which resolve the conflict and water rights issues between the U.S. and Canada.


Federalism In The Financing Of 911 Emergency Call Services: Nature Of The Federal-State Funding Arrangement To Finance Next Generation 911 Services, James E. Holloway, Elaine Seeman, James Kleckley Jan 2014

Federalism In The Financing Of 911 Emergency Call Services: Nature Of The Federal-State Funding Arrangement To Finance Next Generation 911 Services, James E. Holloway, Elaine Seeman, James Kleckley

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

No abstract provided.


Masthead, Volume 5 Issue 1 (2014) Jan 2014

Masthead, Volume 5 Issue 1 (2014)

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

No abstract provided.


Volume 5 (2014), Case Western Reserve Journal Of Law, Technology & The Internet Jan 2014

Volume 5 (2014), Case Western Reserve Journal Of Law, Technology & The Internet

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

No abstract provided.