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With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Human Rights Litigation As A Tool For Social Change, Beth Van Schaack
With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Human Rights Litigation As A Tool For Social Change, Beth Van Schaack
Vanderbilt Law Review
It has been said that Fildrtiga v. Peha-Irala is the Brown v. Board of Education of human rights litigation. Like Brown, Fildrtiga presents one of those rare "breakthrough moments" in law. In Fildrtiga, the Second Circuit confirmed that victims of human rights abuses abroad could seek legal redress in United States courts under the then-obscure Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). Fildrtiga thus inaugurated a steady line of cases in U.S. courts invoking the ATCA and related statutes to adjudicate international human rights claims. For a variety of reasons, including the very existence of these statutes, civil litigation has emerged as …
Brown, The Civil Rights Movement, And The Silent Litigation Revolution, Stephen C. Yeazell
Brown, The Civil Rights Movement, And The Silent Litigation Revolution, Stephen C. Yeazell
Vanderbilt Law Review
One doubts that Robert Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Jack Greenberg and the rest of the legal team that argued Brown v. Board of Education spent much time thinking about mass torts. Nonetheless, it is entirely appropriate that a commemoration of their achievements include not only that topic but also international human rights and health care, as well as the more expected ones of education and social welfare. Brown was part of a revolution, and revolutions often have collateral effects as important as their immediate consequences. The civil rights movement followed the same pattern.
As an immediate consequence, that movement …
Cognitive Dissonance Theory: A Case Study Of Loving V. Virginia, Bowers V. Hard Wick, And Lawrence V. Texas, Andrea Celina Coleman
Cognitive Dissonance Theory: A Case Study Of Loving V. Virginia, Bowers V. Hard Wick, And Lawrence V. Texas, Andrea Celina Coleman
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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The Right To Health, Sarah Friedmann
The Right To Health, Sarah Friedmann
Human Rights & Human Welfare
In the human rights discourse and practice the right to health has been and continues to be a contentious arena. Primarily located within legal frameworks that focus on civil and political rights, the right to health is more frequently being used to challenge abuses of health by invoking social and economic rights, even though this places the right to health on slippery terrain that is not as internationally accepted as civil and political rights.