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"Tools For Success": The Trips Agreement And The Human Right To Essential Medicines, Melissa Mcclellan
"Tools For Success": The Trips Agreement And The Human Right To Essential Medicines, Melissa Mcclellan
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Corporate Liability For Overseas Human Rights Abuses: The Alien Tort Statute After Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain, David D. Christensen
Corporate Liability For Overseas Human Rights Abuses: The Alien Tort Statute After Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain, David D. Christensen
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl
Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl
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This Review Essay of Philippe Sands' (ed.) From Nuremberg to the Hague (2003) explores a number of controversial aspects of the theory and praxis of international criminal law. The Review Essay traces the extant heuristic of international criminal justice institutions to Nuremberg and posits that the Nuremberg experience suggests the need for modesty about what criminal justice actually can accomplish in the wake of mass atrocity. It also explores the place of one person's guilt among organic crime, the reality that international criminal law may gloss over criminogenic conditions in its pursuit of individualized accountability, the possibility of group sanction …
Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl
Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl
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There is a recent proliferation of courts and tribunals to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The zenith of this institution-building is the permanent International Criminal Court, which came into force in 2002. Each of these new institutions rests on the foundational premise that it is appropriate to treat the perpetrator of mass atrocity in the same manner that domestic criminal law treats the common criminal. The modalities and rationales of international criminal law are directly borrowed from the domestic criminal law of those states that dominate the international order. In this Article, I challenge this …
Law And Atrocity: Settling Accounts In Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl
Law And Atrocity: Settling Accounts In Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl
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Ten years ago, genocide ravaged the tiny African nation of Rwanda. In the wake of this violence, Rwanda has struggled to reconstruct, rebuild, and reconcile. Law-in particular, criminal trials for alleged perpetrators of genocide- has figured prominently among various policy mechanisms in postgenocide Rwanda. Criminal trials for Rwandan genocidaires' aspire to achieve several goals. These include exacting retribution, promoting reconciliation, deterring future violence, expressing victims' outrage, maintaining peace, and cultivating a culture of human rights.2 In this Lecture, I examine the extent to which these trials attain these multiple, often competing, and largely overwhelming goals. Part I begins by setting …
International Law And The Ethnicity Of Irish Travellers, David Keane
International Law And The Ethnicity Of Irish Travellers, David Keane
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Female Circumcision In Africa: Procedures, Rationales, Solutions, And The Road To Recovery, Shayla Mcgee
Female Circumcision In Africa: Procedures, Rationales, Solutions, And The Road To Recovery, Shayla Mcgee
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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