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2013

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Rights, Culture, And Crime: The Role Of Rule Of Law For The Women Of Afghanistan, Mark A. Drumbl Sep 2013

Rights, Culture, And Crime: The Role Of Rule Of Law For The Women Of Afghanistan, Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

This Article explores the role of rule of law in redressing crimes and human rights abuses committed against the women of Afghanistan. Mainstream discourse approaches the situation binarily, obliging women to choose between international and often distant human rights, on the one hand, or proximate cultural/religious norms, on the other, in order to adjudicate gender crimes. This can lead either to externalized justice or, in the case of the implementation of Afghan local law, to renewed victimization of women in the name of redressing abuses suffered by other women. Local law in Afghanistan is reflected in codes such as the …


The Mental Element Of The Crime Of Genocide, Devrim Aydin Mar 2013

The Mental Element Of The Crime Of Genocide, Devrim Aydin

devrim aydin

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Looking Up, Down And Across: The Icty's Place In The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2013

Looking Up, Down And Across: The Icty's Place In The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

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Victimhood In Our Neighborhood: Terrorist Crime, Taliban Guilt, And The Asymmetries Of The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2013

Victimhood In Our Neighborhood: Terrorist Crime, Taliban Guilt, And The Asymmetries Of The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

This Article posits that the September 11 attacks constitute nonisolated warlike attacks undertaken against a sovereign state by individuals from other states operating through a non-state actor with some command and political structure. This means that the attacks contain elements common to both armed attacks and criminal attacks. The international community largely has characterized the attacks as armed attacks. This characterization evokes a legal basis for the use of force initiated by the United States and United Kingdom against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. Notwithstanding the successes of the military campaign and the need for containment of terrorist activity, this …


What May Be The Possible Reservations Of Turkey To Access The Icc Rome Statute, Devrim Aydin Dec 2012

What May Be The Possible Reservations Of Turkey To Access The Icc Rome Statute, Devrim Aydin

devrim aydin

No abstract provided.