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The Search For June Cleaver: International Marriage Brokerages And Mail-Order Brides, Itta C. Englander

Itta C. Englander

This paper chronicles a journey through the modern mail-order bride industry. It examines the mail-order bride industry from its early roots in the Western Hemisphere to its current permutations. It discusses the risks that mail-order brides face and explores possible solutions offered through domestic and international instrumentalities.

Starting From Here, Ashley R. Deeks

International Law Studies

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The Treatment Of Detainees And The "Global War On Terror": Selected Legal Issues, David Turns

International Law Studies

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Voices On The Run: What The Slave Narratives Can Tell Us About The Immigration Debate, Hadley Ajana

Hadley Ajana

This paper compares three accounts of runaway slaves from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with three twentieth and twenty-first century accounts of Spanish speaking immigrants to the United States. The works examined are Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Barbara Kingsolver's Bean Trees; Victor Villasenor's Rain of Gold; and Sonia Nozaria's Enrique's Journey. Examining the rhetorical strategies used in the earlier works by the abolitions and the devices used in the modern writing, …

Accountable Intelligence And Intelligent Accountability, Mary O'Rawe

Mary O'Rawe

Abstract Intelligence led policing is in the ascendancy on a global level. This poses serious and often delegitimated questions around law’s ability to prevent and sanction wrongdoing by state security agents. The ramifications of law’s failures are particularly felt in conflicted and post conflict societies. This paper, through the prism of the Northern Ireland experience, problematises the more global sanitation and reification of ‘covert intelligence’ approaches and their potential to contribute to insecurity rather than security.

Human Rights And Gun Confiscation, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

This Article addresses a human rights problem which has been generally ignored by the advocates of firearms confiscation: the human rights abuses stemming from the enforcement of coercive disarmament laws.

Part I conducts a case study of the U.N.-supported gun confiscation program in Uganda, a program which has directly caused massive, and fatal, violations of human rights. Among the rights violated have been those enumerated in Article 3 (“the right to life, liberty and security of person” ) and Article 5 (“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”) of the Universal …

Explosive Road From Dublin: The Legal Flaws In The Convention To Ban Cluster Munitions And Recommendations For Their Cure., Alexandra R. Harrington

Alexandra R. Harrington

In a popular Irish folk song, the hero leaves his boyhood home in the Irish country

side and takes the “rocky road to Dublin” in order to sail to a new life in a new country. However hopeful the hero is throughout his journey, when he arrives at his destination he finds that it is not as hospitable as he had expected. Despite its light-hearted beat, this song is oddly prophetic for an analysis of the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions.

In May, 2008, the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions (“Cluster Munitions Convention”) was adopted by a group of one-hundred …