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Introduction: Framing Economic, Social, And Cultural Rights, Martha F. Davis
Introduction: Framing Economic, Social, And Cultural Rights, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
This paper introduces a Symposium issue of the Northeastern University Law Journal devoted to Framing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for Mobilization and Advocacy: Towards a Strategic Agenda in the United States. Papers in this Symposium issue include Redemptive and Rejectionist Frames: Framing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for Advocacy and Mobilization in the United States, by Katherine G. Young; The 99% Solution: Human Rights and Economic Justice in the United States, by Dorothy Q. Thomas; Economic and Social Rights in the United States: Implementation Without Ratification, by Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill; Framing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at …
International Human Rights And United States Law: Predictions Of A Courtwatcher, Martha F. Davis
International Human Rights And United States Law: Predictions Of A Courtwatcher, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
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Occupy Wall Street And International Human Rights, Martha F. Davis
Occupy Wall Street And International Human Rights, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
This article employs a human rights lens to examine the extreme economic inequality targeted by Occupy Wall Street (OWS). First, I look at the fundamental question of whether such economic inequality constitutes a human rights violation. To analyze that question, I begin by examining the extent to which poverty has been deemed to raise international human rights concerns, finding that international human rights institutions have generally addressed poverty by focusing on the ways in which poverty frustrates the exercise of substantive and procedural human rights. I then use a similar lens to examine the issue of economic inequality, concluding that …
Human Rights And The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct: Intersection And Integration, Martha F. Davis
Human Rights And The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct: Intersection And Integration, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
The American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct nowhere mention human rights as either a means or an end to ethical lawyering. The origins and history of the modern ABA Code, framed at a time when the ABA leadership was hostile to universal human rights norms, suggest possible explanations for this omission as an initial matter. But the Model Rules are frequently revised, and the ABA is now a leader in the promulgation and implementation of human rights worldwide. Still, the model ethics rules remain silent on human rights. State ethics codes, largely drawn from the ABA model, are …
Human Rights In The Trenches: Using International Human Rights Law In "Everday" Legal Aid Cases, Martha F. Davis
Human Rights In The Trenches: Using International Human Rights Law In "Everday" Legal Aid Cases, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
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