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Granting Rights To Rivers In The Shadow Of Extractivism, Helena Alviar Garcia Jan 2024

Granting Rights To Rivers In The Shadow Of Extractivism, Helena Alviar Garcia

FIU Law Review

In Colombia, the Atrato River, situated in the region of Chocó, was granted rights in a 2016 ruling. More than ten other rivers have been granted rights in the following years. This judicial intervention has been influenced by other jurisdictions where rights have been granted to rivers like New Zealand and India. The article situates itself within this trend by providing a more granular, local context. In particular, the goal is to foreground the structural characteristics—specifically the historical, economic, and social centrality of extractivism—within which granting rights to nature takes place. The final objective will be to explore the possibilities …


The Human Environment: Awakening To The Indomitable Cuban Spirit--Government, Culture, And People, Berta Hernández-Truyol Jan 2023

The Human Environment: Awakening To The Indomitable Cuban Spirit--Government, Culture, And People, Berta Hernández-Truyol

FIU Law Review

My thoughts are to write about The Human Environment. I will address the recent events concerning the increased silencing of dissent and the criminal law reforms that prohibit peaceful gatherings.


Disaggregating Slavery And The Slave Trade, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum Jan 2022

Disaggregating Slavery And The Slave Trade, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

FIU Law Review

International law prohibits slavery and the slave trade as peremptory norms, customary international law prohibitions and crimes, humanitarian law prohibitions, and non-derogable human rights. Human rights bodies, however, focus on human trafficking, even when slavery and the slave trade—and not human trafficking—are enumerated within their mandates. International human rights law has conflated human trafficking with slavery and the slave trade. Consequently, human trafficking has subsumed the slave trade and, at times, slavery prohibitions, increasing perpetrator impunity for slavery and the slave trade abuses and denying full expressive justice to survivors. This Article disaggregates slavery from the slave trade and slavery …


"Blood, Sweat, Tears:" A Muslim Woman Law Professor's View On Degenerative Racism, Misogyny, And (Internal) Islamophobia From Preeclampsia And Presumed Incompetent To Pandemic Tenure, Nadia B. Ahmad Jan 2022

"Blood, Sweat, Tears:" A Muslim Woman Law Professor's View On Degenerative Racism, Misogyny, And (Internal) Islamophobia From Preeclampsia And Presumed Incompetent To Pandemic Tenure, Nadia B. Ahmad

FIU Law Review

From classical literature, popular press, law, everyday conversations, and social media rampages, society scrutinizes visible Muslim women even though they are a part of a vast global population. From E.M. Forrester’s A Passage to India—the Orientalist summer reading I endured in high school—to the incessant online attacks on U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the hatred has no end and no bounds. Visible Muslim women are accustomed to erasure and censure for simply existing. In France, legislators sought to expel visible Muslim women under the age of eighteen from the public space. Women’s rights have been used as a pretext to invade …


Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Creating Space For Non-Judicial Alternatives, Linda Carter Jan 2021

Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Creating Space For Non-Judicial Alternatives, Linda Carter

FIU Law Review

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The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Amnesties, Dr. Alhagi B.M. Marong Jan 2021

The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Amnesties, Dr. Alhagi B.M. Marong

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Important Contributions Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone On Amnesties And Immunities: Reinforcing Foundational Principles Of International Criminal Law, Leila Nadya Sadat Jan 2021

The Important Contributions Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone On Amnesties And Immunities: Reinforcing Foundational Principles Of International Criminal Law, Leila Nadya Sadat

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Legal Legacy That Opens The Way To Justice In Challenging Places And Times, Stephen J. Rapp Jan 2021

A Legal Legacy That Opens The Way To Justice In Challenging Places And Times, Stephen J. Rapp

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Two Percent: How Florida’S Capital Punishment System Defies The Eighth Amendment, Sofia Perla Jan 2021

The Two Percent: How Florida’S Capital Punishment System Defies The Eighth Amendment, Sofia Perla

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Continued Relevance Of The Contributions Of The Sierra Leone Tribunal To International Criminal Law, Charles C. Jalloh Jan 2021

The Continued Relevance Of The Contributions Of The Sierra Leone Tribunal To International Criminal Law, Charles C. Jalloh

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Weaving A Broader Tapestry, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2021

Weaving A Broader Tapestry, Mark A. Drumbl

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: The Sierra Leone Perspective—When The Story Is As Important As The Storyteller, Dr. Michael Imran Kanu Jan 2021

The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: The Sierra Leone Perspective—When The Story Is As Important As The Storyteller, Dr. Michael Imran Kanu

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Balancing Different Transitional Justice Elements To Ensure Accountability For Atrocity Crimes, Alpha Sesay Jan 2021

The Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Balancing Different Transitional Justice Elements To Ensure Accountability For Atrocity Crimes, Alpha Sesay

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dealing With Gender-Based Crimes In International Criminal Law, Tamara Cummings-John Jan 2021

Dealing With Gender-Based Crimes In International Criminal Law, Tamara Cummings-John

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Senior Leaders And Those Most Responsible At The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia, Stuart Ford Jan 2021

Senior Leaders And Those Most Responsible At The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia, Stuart Ford

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Of Amnesty, Pendulums, And Peremptory Norms, William Schabas Jan 2021

Of Amnesty, Pendulums, And Peremptory Norms, William Schabas

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.