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‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula Jan 2012

‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula

Societies Without Borders

This article uses the first domestic violence case filed against the United States in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to discuss the politics of gender and domestic violence. We discuss how gender-neutral frameworks of the case in the U.S. ignore the interpersonal gender and power issues which often attend domestic violence cases. The case before the IACHR was arguably more successful in addressing gender by drawing from the human rights literature on women’s rights. However, given that this case is the first human rights charge against the United States by a domestic violence survivor, the specifically gendered framework …


72 Years Later: Still Seeking Accountability For The Katyn Forest Massacre, Allan Gerson Jan 2012

72 Years Later: Still Seeking Accountability For The Katyn Forest Massacre, Allan Gerson

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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Somebody Else's Problem: How The United States And Canada Violate International Law And Fail To Ensure The Prosecution Of War Criminals, Nicholas P. Weiss Jan 2012

Somebody Else's Problem: How The United States And Canada Violate International Law And Fail To Ensure The Prosecution Of War Criminals, Nicholas P. Weiss

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.