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Adr And A Smile: Neocolonialism And The West's Newest Export In Africa, Anthony P. Greco
Adr And A Smile: Neocolonialism And The West's Newest Export In Africa, Anthony P. Greco
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
While the ills of the West's corporatization of the world have long been debated and catalogued, often neglected is the role the law plays in empowering the rich, disenfranchising the poor, and serving as the "handmaiden to empire." Since what has been termed the "rule of law revival," which saw its genesis sometime in the late 1980s, the adoption of Western legal frameworks to help developing and Third World nations transition and gain access to the ever growing global market has become commonplace. With the coming of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) revolution during the last few decades, the West …
Choosing To Prosecute: Expressive Selection At The International Criminal Court, Margaret M. Deguzman
Choosing To Prosecute: Expressive Selection At The International Criminal Court, Margaret M. Deguzman
Michigan Journal of International Law
The International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution in its infancy, has had occasion to make only a relatively small number of decisions about which defendants and which crimes to prosecute. But virtually every choice it has made has been attacked: the first defendant, Thomas Lubanga, was not senior enough and the crimes with which he was charged-war crimes involving the use of child soldiers-were not serious enough; the Court should have investigated British soldiers for war crimes committed in Iraq; the ICC should not be prosecuting only rebel perpetrators in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; the Court's focus …