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Full-Text Articles in Law
Brief Of Intervenor, Women’S Legal Education And Action Fund (Leaf), Ferrel V. Ontario, Laura Spitz
Brief Of Intervenor, Women’S Legal Education And Action Fund (Leaf), Ferrel V. Ontario, Laura Spitz
Faculty Scholarship
The issues in this appeal are whether Bill 8, An Act to Repeal Job Quotas and Restore Merit-Based Employment Practices in Ontario ("Bill 8''), contravenes section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter''), and, if so, whether the contravention is justified under section I of the Charter. This brief reviews the Government's repeal of the Federal Emplyment Equity Act (EEA). This repeal impairs designated groups to the greatest extent possible by removing all of the mechanisms which are necessary to remedy systemic discrimination in employment. Additionally, where discrimination is effected by the wholesale repeal of human …
The Inevitable Collision: Affirmative Action And The Constitution, Jennifer Moore
The Inevitable Collision: Affirmative Action And The Constitution, Jennifer Moore
Faculty Scholarship
This Comment, like a traditional Comment regarding affirmative action, will provide analysis pertaining to the historical events that shaped modem affirmative action policies. However, this Comment will also examine the recent settlement of Taxman v. Board of Education, a most intriguing display of political maneuvering which remains shrouded in controversy." Taxman would have presented the upreme Court with an ideal lens through which to examine the constitutionality of affirmative action. However, as a result of industrious manipulation, the Court narrowly missed that opportunity. Because a live controversy no longer exists, this Comment will focus on the Supreme Court's lost chance …
Why Basic Liberties Are Bilateral, James W. Nickel
A Tribute To Jonathan Mann: Health And Human Rights In The Aids Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
A Tribute To Jonathan Mann: Health And Human Rights In The Aids Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A tribute to Jonathan Mann, former head of the World Health Organization's global AIDS program and a key figure in the early fight against HIV/AIDS. The author discusses Mann's work in health and human rights, prevention of disease, and eliminating social injustice.
Uses And Misuses Of Comparative Law In International Human Rights: Some Reflections On The Jurisprudence Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Paolo G. Carozza
Uses And Misuses Of Comparative Law In International Human Rights: Some Reflections On The Jurisprudence Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Paolo G. Carozza
Journal Articles
Virtually all of Mary Ann Glendon's work can be seen as part of a persistent effort to open some windows in the edifice of American law and allow cross-currents of foreign experience to blow fresh insight into the rooms of our republic. In her critique of contemporary strains of rights discourse in the United States, she makes the case against American insularity quite directly: "In closing our own eyes and ears to the development of rights ideas elsewhere, our most grievous loss is ... the kind of assistance ... that can be gained from observing the successes and failures of …
Strengthening The Inter-American Human Rights System: The Current Debate, Claudio Grossman
Strengthening The Inter-American Human Rights System: The Current Debate, Claudio Grossman
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Legal Reform: Reviewing Human Rights In The Muslim World, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Legal Reform: Reviewing Human Rights In The Muslim World, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
Muslims take spirituality very seriously and would be willing to put up with a great deal of pain and suffering rather than abandon this fundamental disposition. Additionally, many Muslims have an intuitive belief that it is not religion which is at fault, but those in power. Consequently, they continue to search for the spiritually acceptable solution. In the meantime, Western NGOs offer no more than lightly-modified Western secular solutions, sometimes thinly disguised with religious rhetoric.
Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, M. Bassiouni
Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, M. Bassiouni
College of Law Faculty
No abstract provided.
Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, M. Bassiouni
Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, M. Bassiouni
College of Law Faculty
No abstract provided.
Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown
Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Us Supreme Court Confronts 'Right To Die', Bruce Carolan
Us Supreme Court Confronts 'Right To Die', Bruce Carolan
Articles
This article covers the US Supreme Court's decisions regarding physician-assisted suicide for a UK audience.
Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The Alien: Lessons From Social Psychology And The Promise Enforcement Cases, Victor C. Romero
Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The Alien: Lessons From Social Psychology And The Promise Enforcement Cases, Victor C. Romero
Journal Articles
Recent legal scholarship suggests that the Supreme Court's decisions on immigrants' rights favor conceptions of membership over personhood. Federal courts are often reluctant to recognize the personal rights claims of noncitizens because they are not members of the United States. Professor Michael Scaperlanda argues that because the courts have left the protection of noncitizens' rights in the hands of Congress and, therefore, its constituents, U.S. citizens must engage in a serious dialogue regarding membership in this polity while considering the importance of constitutional principles of personhood. This Article takes up Scaperlanda's challenge. Borrowing from recent research in social psychology, this …
Palabras Del Presidente De La Comision Interamericana De Derechos Humanos En La Sesion Inaugural Del 95, Claudio Grossman
Palabras Del Presidente De La Comision Interamericana De Derechos Humanos En La Sesion Inaugural Del 95, Claudio Grossman
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Looking Past The Human Rights Committee: An Argument For De-Marginalizing Enforcement, Makau Wa Mutua
Looking Past The Human Rights Committee: An Argument For De-Marginalizing Enforcement, Makau Wa Mutua
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Can International Refugee Law Be Made Relevant Again?, James C. Hathaway
Can International Refugee Law Be Made Relevant Again?, James C. Hathaway
Articles
Ironic though it may seem, I believe that the present breakdown in the authority of international refugee law is attributable to its failure explicitly to accommodate the reasonable preoccupations of governments in the countries to which refugees flee. International refugee law is part of a system of state self-regulation. It will therefore be respected only to the extent that receiving states believe that it fairly reconciles humanitarian objectives to their national interests. In contrast, refugee law arbitrarily assigns full legal responsibility for protection to whatever state asylum-seekers are able to reach. It is a peremptory regime. Apart from the right …
Concretizing Human Rights, Laurence R. Helfer
Concretizing Human Rights, Laurence R. Helfer
Faculty Scholarship
reviewing Francisco Forest Martin et al., International Human Rights Law and Practice: Cases, Treaties and Materials (1997)
Codification Des Regles Internationales Relatives Aux Personnes Deplacees A L'Interieur De Leur Pays: Un Domaine Ou Les Considerations Touchant Aux Droits De L'Homme Et Au Droit Humanitaire Sont Prises En Compte, Robert K. Goldman
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Marriage Contracts And The Family Economy, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Marriage Contracts And The Family Economy, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Faculty Scholarship
One simplified view of contract law is that the state enforces private bargains without looking into the substance of those bargains. From this contractual perspective marriage might look like a contract to exchange services and goods: love, money, the ability to have and raise children, housework, sex, emotional support, physical care in times of sickness, entertainment and so forth. But when the parties to a marriage put these terms in writing, courts only enforce the provisions governing money. This contract/family law rule of selective enforcement disproportionately benefits those who bring more money to a marriage, who are more likely to …
Human Rights And Health - The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50, George J. Annas
Human Rights And Health - The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At 50, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
War, famine, pestilence, and poverty have had obvious and devastating effects on health throughout human history. In recent times, human rights have come to be viewed as essential to freedom and individual development. But it is only since the end of World War II that the link between human rights and these causes of disease and death has been recognized.1-3 The 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — signed on December 10, 1948 — provides an opportunity to review its genesis, to explore the contemporary link between health and human rights, and to develop effective human-rights …
La Preuve Pénale Et Des Tests Génétiques: United States Report, Christopher L. Blakesley
La Preuve Pénale Et Des Tests Génétiques: United States Report, Christopher L. Blakesley
Scholarly Works
A major problem for those analyzing U.S. criminal law and procedure is that it does not fit the Continental or British mold. There is no one single system, but parallel federal and 50 state systems each with its own legislature, laws, courts (including trial, appellate, and supreme courts), police, prosecutors and prisons. The authorities who enact and implement these laws are sovereign within their respective jurisdictions. Each state has police power over its people. The 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution controls allocation of federal and state authority. It provides that whatever the Constitution has not designated as being within …
Deconstructing Homo[Genous] Americanus: The White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative And Its Exclusionary Effect, Sylvia R. Lazos
Deconstructing Homo[Genous] Americanus: The White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative And Its Exclusionary Effect, Sylvia R. Lazos
Scholarly Works
This Article examines why the assumption of sameness is so pervasive in our society, and why the very idea of diversity is so resisted. The assumption and the corollary mandate to be the same are embedded in American cultural ideology, in how Americans think of themselves, in the stories that we tell regarding who we are and where we come from, in how we construct our values and norms, and in how Americans make sense of our chaotic social world. The assumption and mandate of sameness not only influence American culture, they also guide judges' thinking and decision-making in key …
Regarding Rights: An Essay Honoring The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Introduction: Locating Culture, Identity, And Human Rights Symposium In Celebration Of The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Tracy E. Higgins
Faculty Scholarship
The half-century since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' has been famously heralded as the "Age of Rights" and the concept of human rights described as "the only political-moral idea that has gained universal acceptance." During the same period, however, both terms defining the subject-human and rights-have become increasingly contested. Informed by the emergence of identity-based political movements, critics have attacked the category human has as bearing the baggage of Western Enlightenment assumptions about personhood and community, inherently racist, sexist, and classist. Theorists across the political spectrum have criticized the concept of rights as indeterminate, destructive of …
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act And Human Rights Violations: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act And Human Rights Violations: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Defining And Punishing Abroad: Constitutional Limits On The Extraterritorial Reach Of The Offenses Clause Note, Zephyr Teachout
Defining And Punishing Abroad: Constitutional Limits On The Extraterritorial Reach Of The Offenses Clause Note, Zephyr Teachout
Faculty Scholarship
The Offenses Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress the authority to "define and punish... Offences against the Law of Nations." This Note considers whether Congress must conform to the jurisdictional rules of customary international law when legislating pursuant to the Offenses Clause.
Customary International Law, S. James Anaya
Fundamental Rights, Moral Law, And The Legal Defense Of Life In A Constitutional Democracy, Martin Rhonheimer, Paolo G. Carozza
Fundamental Rights, Moral Law, And The Legal Defense Of Life In A Constitutional Democracy, Martin Rhonheimer, Paolo G. Carozza
Journal Articles
Article by Martin Rhonheimer, translated by Paolo G. Carozza.
Endangered Species Wannabees, John Copeland Nagle
Endangered Species Wannabees, John Copeland Nagle
Journal Articles
Environmental law and theories of statutory interpretation have developed side by side in the United States during the past twenty-five years. Many of the leading environmental law cases are also statutory interpretation cases. China is different. China has enacted many environmental statutes, often patterned after foreign laws such as those in the United States, but there are no Chinese environmental law statutory interpretation cases.
This article examines why there are no such cases, and what we may learn from that fact. I am indebted to the work of Professor Stewart, whose engaging article in this symposium issue combines three of …
Redirecting The Debate Over Trafficking In Women: Definitions, Paradigms, And Contexts, Janie Chuang
Redirecting The Debate Over Trafficking In Women: Definitions, Paradigms, And Contexts, Janie Chuang
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Separatism And The Democratic Entitlement, Diane Orentlicher
Separatism And The Democratic Entitlement, Diane Orentlicher
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Rhetoric And Rage: Third World Voices In International Legal Discourse, Karin Mickelson
Rhetoric And Rage: Third World Voices In International Legal Discourse, Karin Mickelson
All Faculty Publications
This paper sets out to question the conventional view of the Third World and international law, which tends to characterize Third World legal discourse as ad hoc and reactive. It considers whether it might be possible to identify "distinctive modes of thought and analysis" characteristic of a Third World approach to international law. In her analysis, the author begins by exploring various usages of the term "Third World," and explains the way in which it is used in this paper. She then sketches out Third World approaches to the subject areas of international economic law, human rights and the environment, …