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Juvenile Execution, Terrorist Extradition, And Supreme Court Discretion To Consider International Death Penalty Jurisprudence, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2005

Juvenile Execution, Terrorist Extradition, And Supreme Court Discretion To Consider International Death Penalty Jurisprudence, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

European human rights law and multilateral conventions have raised United States death penalty policy to an international level. Treaties and international institutions have impacted the extradition of capital offenders and influenced the development of human rights law within the United States. Refusal to extradite without assurances that the death penalty will not be imposed has continuing ramifications for the implementation of transnational counter-terrorism measures. Determining a contemporary standard of decency regarding cruel and unusual punishment, what shocks the public conscious, or what constitutes torture depends upon what societal parameters one uses. The Supreme Court's readiness to examine international developments in …


The Place Of Human Rights Law In World Trade Organization Rules, Stephen Joseph Powell Feb 2004

The Place Of Human Rights Law In World Trade Organization Rules, Stephen Joseph Powell

Stephen Joseph Powell

WTO rules routinely are linked to the inability of nations to make meaningful progress in sharpening environmental and other human rights protections, for example, the failure of the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development to usher in any new treaties despite the bright promise of the Rio Earth Summit of the previous decade. The common brief of environmental, medical, and development interest groups is that the market principles of supply and demand, comparative advantage, and non-discrimination on which global trade rules are built have encumbered pursuit by nations of fundamental non-economic objectives that must in any reasoned legal hierarchy …


Intimidated Victims & Witnesses: Treated With Hostility, Saumya Uma Jan 2004

Intimidated Victims & Witnesses: Treated With Hostility, Saumya Uma

Saumya Uma

This article advances the need for an Indian legal regime for protecting the interests of victims and witnesses. It draws from international standards and experiences of other countries, grounding the same in the contemporary Indian context.


Etat Des Lieux Des Droits De L’Homme, Du Droit International Humanitaire Et Du Droit International Pénal Face Aux Requêtes En «Réparation» Des Grands Crimes De L’Histoire: Bilan Prospectif (In French), Bartram Brown Dec 2003

Etat Des Lieux Des Droits De L’Homme, Du Droit International Humanitaire Et Du Droit International Pénal Face Aux Requêtes En «Réparation» Des Grands Crimes De L’Histoire: Bilan Prospectif (In French), Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Barely Borders: Issues Of International Law, Bartram Brown Dec 2003

Barely Borders: Issues Of International Law, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Reconciling State Sovereignty And Protections For The Internally Displaced, Bartram Brown Dec 2002

Reconciling State Sovereignty And Protections For The Internally Displaced, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


The Evolving Concept Of Universal Jurisdiction (Symposium), Bartram Brown Dec 2000

The Evolving Concept Of Universal Jurisdiction (Symposium), Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Nato Action Unwisely Undercuts U.N., C. Peter Erlinder Apr 1999

Nato Action Unwisely Undercuts U.N., C. Peter Erlinder

C. Peter Erlinder

No abstract provided.


U.S. Objections To The Statute Of The International Criminal Court: A Brief Response, Bartram Brown Dec 1998

U.S. Objections To The Statute Of The International Criminal Court: A Brief Response, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown Dec 1997

Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.