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Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte
Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
In settler colonial contexts, law and educational institutions operate as structures of oppression, extraction, erasure, disempowerment, and continuing violence against colonized peoples. Consequently, clinical legal advocacy often can reinforce coloniality—the logic that perpetuates structural violence against individuals and groups resisting colonization and struggling for survival as peoples. Critical legal theory, including Third World Approaches to International Law (“TWAIL”), has long exposed colonial laws and practices that entrench discriminatory, racialized power structures and prevent transformative international human rights advocacy. Understanding and responding to these critiques can assist in decolonizing international human rights clinical law teaching and practice but is insufficient in …
Bridging The Enforcement Gap? Evaluating The Inquiry Procedure Of The Cedaw Optional Protocol, Catherine O'Rourke
Bridging The Enforcement Gap? Evaluating The Inquiry Procedure Of The Cedaw Optional Protocol, Catherine O'Rourke
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Considerable optimism accompanied the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Optional Protocol. However, one of the Optional Protocol’s two enforcement measures, the inquiry procedure, appeared to languish for fourteen years and has, to date, resulted in only four inquiry reports. The article evaluates the inquiry procedure, finding largely unmet expectations in addressing CEDAW’s structural weaknesses, countering the privileging of civil and political rights, and redressing state noncompliance with CEDAW, but significant potential nonetheless. The findings of this Article vindicate the enduring salience of foundational feminist critiques of human rights. The Conclusion …
Far From Now-Settled: The Supreme Court's Decision In Lozano V. Montoya Alvarez As A Violation Of Substantive And Procedural Due Process Under The International Child Abduction Remedies Act, Cassandra Erler
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Particularized Social Groups And Categorical Imperatives In Refugee Law: State Failures To Recognize Gender And The Legal Reception Of Gender Persecution Claims In Canada, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Melanie Randall
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Uruguay , Walter Howard
National Report: Uruguay , Walter Howard
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: United Kingdom, Kenneth Mck. Norrie
National Report: United Kingdom, Kenneth Mck. Norrie
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Turkey, Başak Başoğlu, Candan Yasan
National Report: Turkey, Başak Başoğlu, Candan Yasan
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Switzerland, Annelot Peters
National Report: Switzerland, Annelot Peters
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Spain, Carlos Martínez De Aguirre Aldaz, Pedro De Pablo Contreras
National Report: Spain, Carlos Martínez De Aguirre Aldaz, Pedro De Pablo Contreras
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: The Republic Of South Africa, François Du Toit
National Report: The Republic Of South Africa, François Du Toit
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Norway , Torstein Frantzen
National Report: Norway , Torstein Frantzen
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Japan, Teiko Tamaki
National Report: Japan, Teiko Tamaki
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: New Zealand, Kenneth Mck. Norrie
National Report: New Zealand, Kenneth Mck. Norrie
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Ireland, Aisling Parkes
National Report: Ireland, Aisling Parkes
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Italy, Virginia Zambrano
National Report: Italy, Virginia Zambrano
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Hungary, Zsolt Körtvélyesi, András L. Pap
National Report: Hungary, Zsolt Körtvélyesi, András L. Pap
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Greece, Alexander G. Fessas
National Report: Greece, Alexander G. Fessas
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Germany, Jens M. Scherpe
National Report: Germany, Jens M. Scherpe
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: France, Hugues Fulchiron
National Report: France, Hugues Fulchiron
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Denmark, Christina G. Jeppesen De Boer, Annette Kronborg
National Report: Denmark, Christina G. Jeppesen De Boer, Annette Kronborg
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Colombia, Universidad De Los Andes Public Interest Law Group
National Report: Colombia, Universidad De Los Andes Public Interest Law Group
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Women And Reproduction: From Control To Autonomy? The Case Of Chile, Lidia B. Casas
Women And Reproduction: From Control To Autonomy? The Case Of Chile, Lidia B. Casas
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
International Criminal Court's Protection Of Women: The Hands Of Justice At Work, Tina R. Karkera
International Criminal Court's Protection Of Women: The Hands Of Justice At Work, Tina R. Karkera
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Using The Law To Support Work/Life Issues:The Australian Experience, Juliet Bourke
Using The Law To Support Work/Life Issues:The Australian Experience, Juliet Bourke
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
International And Regional Standards For Protecting Victims Of Domestic Violence, Andreea Vesa
International And Regional Standards For Protecting Victims Of Domestic Violence, Andreea Vesa
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Behind The Wedding Veil: Child Marriage As A Form Of Trafficking In Girls, Elizabeth Warner
Behind The Wedding Veil: Child Marriage As A Form Of Trafficking In Girls, Elizabeth Warner
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Obligation Ignored: Why International Law Requires The United States To Provide Adequate Civil Legal Aid, What The United States Is Doing Instead, And How Legal Empowerment Can Help, Zachary H. Zarnow
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why “Same” Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why “Same” Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Canada, Marie-France Bureau
National Report: Canada, Marie-France Bureau
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
National Report: Belgium, Frederik Swennen, Yves-Henri Leleu
National Report: Belgium, Frederik Swennen, Yves-Henri Leleu
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.