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Impediments To Human Rights Protection In Nigeria, Jacob Abiodun Dada
Impediments To Human Rights Protection In Nigeria, Jacob Abiodun Dada
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
The promotion and protection of human rights have engaged the attention of the world community, and though the African country of Nigeria has subscribed to major international human rights instruments, violations continue to occur with disturbing frequency and regularity in that nation. Why is this so? This article examines the multifarious and multidimensional impediments which have hamstrung meaningful enjoyment of human rights in Nigeria. It points out the shortcomings of the dualist model under the Nigerian Constitution and stresses the objectionable wide amplitude of the derogation clauses. It also makes suggestions for reform.
Cite as: 18 Annl. Survey Int'l. Comp. …
Corrective Rape In South Africa: A Continuing Plight Despite An International Human Rights Repsonse, Roderick Brown
Corrective Rape In South Africa: A Continuing Plight Despite An International Human Rights Repsonse, Roderick Brown
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
First, this paper will discuss the historical and societal basis for corrective rape, then, its scope and presence globally. Subsequently, the paper will introduce the laws and policies that should address the problem of corrective rape, and how the South African state and citizens violate them, including, first, the international human rights framework that existed before corrective rape came into the spotlight; then, it will address the recent developments that were instituted in response to violations of LGBTI rights globally. Finally, the paper will provide specific laws and policies that should be implemented in order to provide effective and durable …
The Big Man In The Big House: Prisoner Free Exercise In Light Of Employment Division V. Smith, Joseph Thomas Wilson
The Big Man In The Big House: Prisoner Free Exercise In Light Of Employment Division V. Smith, Joseph Thomas Wilson
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Practice Meets Theory: Using Moots As A Tool To Teach Human Rights Law, Paula Gerber, Melissa Castan
Practice Meets Theory: Using Moots As A Tool To Teach Human Rights Law, Paula Gerber, Melissa Castan
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Litigating The Holocaust: A Consistent Theory In Tort For The Private Enforcement Of Human Rights Violations , Derek Brown
Litigating The Holocaust: A Consistent Theory In Tort For The Private Enforcement Of Human Rights Violations , Derek Brown
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Succession By Estoppel: Hong Kong's Succession To The Iccpr, Peter K. Yu
Succession By Estoppel: Hong Kong's Succession To The Iccpr, Peter K. Yu
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Corruption And Human Rights: Exploring The Relationships, Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Corruption And Human Rights: Exploring The Relationships, Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Corruption is a global phenomenon which every society faces though its degree of severity varies from country to country. Despite its long history, there is no single universally agreed upon definition of corruption. Moreover, its causes, forms and impacts are diverse and multi-faceted. Understanding corruption by itself is a complex undertaking. However, it is agreed that corruption is inimical to public administration, undermines democracy, degrades the moral fabrics of the society and violates human rights. The pain of corruption touches all the human family but it disproportionately affects the vulnerable sections of the society. It reinforces discrimination, exclusion and arbitrariness. …
October Roundtable: Un Secretary-General Report On “Responsibility To Protect: Timely And Decisive Response”, Introduction, Claudia Fuentes Julio
October Roundtable: Un Secretary-General Report On “Responsibility To Protect: Timely And Decisive Response”, Introduction, Claudia Fuentes Julio
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“Responsibility to Protect: Timely and Decisive Response” Ban Ki-moon, July 2012.
Responsibility To Regulate: How The ‘Responsibility To Protect’ Expands State Power, Philip Cunliffe
Responsibility To Regulate: How The ‘Responsibility To Protect’ Expands State Power, Philip Cunliffe
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Like most UN reports, particularly those concerned with the doctrine of the "responsibility to protect" (RtoP), the latest report of the UN Secretary-General is filled with plenty of pious guff mixed in with the platitudes that engulf UN diplomacy. But buried within the blathering are also some disturbing prescriptions for how the UN envisages rolling out RtoP around the world. I want to draw attention to three specific points in order to consider what these tell us about RtoP as a political model. First, I will look at the treatment of media and speech in the report; second, how the …
Politics As Usual At The Un: Implementing Pillar Three Of Rtop, Eric A. Heinze
Politics As Usual At The Un: Implementing Pillar Three Of Rtop, Eric A. Heinze
Human Rights & Human Welfare
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's most recent report on RtoP seeks to evaluate the various ways that Pillar Three of RtoP can be implemented. As anyone familiar with RtoP is aware, the commitment is understood to have three separate but interrelated pillars. The first pillar says that states have the primary responsibility to protect their own citizens from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Pillar Two says that the international community should assist states in fulfilling this responsibility, while Pillar Three says that if the state fails in its primary responsibility to protect its citizens from these crimes, …
“The Rtop And Responsibility While Protecting: The Secretary-General’S Timely And Decisive Report On Timely And Decisive Responses”, James Pattison
“The Rtop And Responsibility While Protecting: The Secretary-General’S Timely And Decisive Report On Timely And Decisive Responses”, James Pattison
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The United Nations Secretary-General's report on pillar three of the responsibility to protect (RtoP), "Responsibility to Protect: Timely and Decisive Response," is the most interesting, timely, and decisive of his four reports thus far on the RtoP. To start with, the subject matter of pillar three – the international community's potentially coercive responses to humanitarian crises, including humanitarian intervention – is the most controversial part of the RtoP doctrine and the area that has attracted the most criticism from skeptics. Previous reports, such as Implementing the Responsibility to Protect(2009), gave pillar three, and humanitarian intervention in particular, fairly short shrift, …
Strategies & Decisiveness: What Is Implied By A “Timely And Decisive Response” For Rtop Situations, H. M. Roff
Strategies & Decisiveness: What Is Implied By A “Timely And Decisive Response” For Rtop Situations, H. M. Roff
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Reflecting upon United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recent report concerning the third pillar of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP), on the "timely and decisive response," two items become clear to me. First is that the third pillar is inherently coercive in nature, even though the report and many RtoP pundits stress that it entails more than merely sanctioning the use of force. Second is that this is unsurprising if we recall that the purpose of RtoP is to ensure the protection of particular human rights (rights against: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing) and that having a …
International Rights Of Older Persons: What Difference Would A New Convention Make To Lives Of Older People?, Israel Doron, Itai Apter
International Rights Of Older Persons: What Difference Would A New Convention Make To Lives Of Older People?, Israel Doron, Itai Apter
Marquette Elder's Advisor
This article tries to answer the following question: What difference, if any, would a new convention on the rights of older persons make to the lives of older people in light of the previous experiences with the Convention on the Eliminations of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)? In order to answer this question, the authors focus on the existing legal literature on international human rights law, with a particular focus on international human rights treaties. To better understand international human rights treaties, the article also discusses the CRC …
Silent Partners: Private Forces, Mercenaries, And International Humanitarian Law In The 21st Century, Steven R. Kochheiser
Silent Partners: Private Forces, Mercenaries, And International Humanitarian Law In The 21st Century, Steven R. Kochheiser
University of Miami National Security & Armed Conflict Law Review
In response to gritty accounts of firefights involving private forces like Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan, many legal scholars have addressed the rising use of private forces—or mercenaries—in the 21st century under international law. Remarkably, only a few have attempted to understand why these forces are so objectionable. This is not a new problem. Historically, attempts to control private forces by bringing them under international law have been utterly ineffective, such as Article 47 of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions. In Silent Partners, I propose utilizing the norm against mercenary use as a theoretical framework to understand at …
The Ferrini Doctrine: Abrogating State Immunity From Civil Suit For Jus Cogens Violations, Natasha Marusja Saputo
The Ferrini Doctrine: Abrogating State Immunity From Civil Suit For Jus Cogens Violations, Natasha Marusja Saputo
University of Miami National Security & Armed Conflict Law Review
Article 10 of the Italian Constitution incorporates generally recognized principles of international law. Thus, State immunity from civil suit in the domestic courts of another State—a principle generally recognized in international law—would apply in Italy. However, the protection of fundamental human rights is another generally recognized principle in international law and the ostensible conflict between these two principles has resulted in a series of controversial rulings issued by the Italian Court of Cassation. These rulings allow for the abrogation of State immunity from civil suit in the domestic courts of another State for alleged violations of jus cogens or peremptory …
Learning From Libya, Acting In Syria, Caitlin A. Buckley
Learning From Libya, Acting In Syria, Caitlin A. Buckley
Journal of Strategic Security
The international community has reached an impasse. The violence committed by Syrian President Assad's government against opposition forces, who have been calling for democratic reform, regime change, and expanded rights, has necessitated a response from the international community. This article explores various ways the international community could respond to the crisis in Syria and the consequences of each approach. It compares the current calamity in Syria to the crisis in Libya and examines the international community's response to the violence perpetrated by Qaddafi's regime. It further analyzes reports, primarily from the UN and news sources, about the ongoing predicament in …
June Roundtable: International Criminal Court, Peace, And Justice, Introduction, Claudia Fuentes Julio
June Roundtable: International Criminal Court, Peace, And Justice, Introduction, Claudia Fuentes Julio
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“Peace Must Not Be the Victim of International Justice” New York Times. March 16, 2012.
From Retribution To Reconciliation, From Spoiler To Peace Envoy, Christine Bell
From Retribution To Reconciliation, From Spoiler To Peace Envoy, Christine Bell
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Is there a tension between justice and peace? That debate I leave to my co-panelists, because the most interesting and important thing about this month's centerpiece, without a doubt, is not its well-judged (if slightly ill-informed) take on the ICC, but the name of the author at its end.
“Slippery Slopes: On Why We Need The Icc”, Matthew S. Weinert
“Slippery Slopes: On Why We Need The Icc”, Matthew S. Weinert
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Peace, reconciliation, and restorative justice: these are the albatrosses that international criminal law (ICL) must (unfairly) bear. Ian Paisley, MP from Northern Ireland and former United Nations and European Union peace envoy, echoes in a New York Times op-ed contribution the aspirations heaped onto the International Criminal Court (ICC). In March, the ICC convicted Thomas Lubanga for war crimes and the conscription of children as soldiers; justice has been done, Paisley claims. Yet the ICC was "intended as an instrument of peace," and "there is no peace" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On this ground he concludes, …
“Seeking Justice, Strategically”, Joel R. Pruce
“Seeking Justice, Strategically”, Joel R. Pruce
Human Rights & Human Welfare
In his opinion piece, Ian Paisley takes to task the International Criminal Court (ICC) for, as he sees it, intervening in domestic processes of reconciliation at the expense of long-term prospects for peace. The "peace versus justice" paradox is not a new one and Paisley expresses a common criticism of justice mechanisms as disruptive of post-conflict, societal healing and the overwhelming hurdle of governing in the aftermath of violence. Missing from his analysis is a broader understanding of trends in international justice and accountability, of which the ICC is only one component. While the ICC is certainly not immune from …
Book Review Of Stones Of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights To Challenge Global Poverty, By Lucie E. White And Jeremy Perelman, Eds., Scott L. Cummings
Book Review Of Stones Of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights To Challenge Global Poverty, By Lucie E. White And Jeremy Perelman, Eds., Scott L. Cummings
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
The Fate Of "Unremovable" Aliens Before And After September 11, 2001: The Supreme Court's Presumptive Six-Month Limit To Post-Removal-Period Detention, Megan Peitzke
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
A New Paradigm For The Alien Tort Statute Under Extraterritoriality And The Universality Principle, Jason Jarvis
A New Paradigm For The Alien Tort Statute Under Extraterritoriality And The Universality Principle, Jason Jarvis
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Perry V. Schwarzenegger, Proposition 8, And The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage , Jennie Croyle
Perry V. Schwarzenegger, Proposition 8, And The Fight For Same-Sex Marriage , Jennie Croyle
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Paradox Of Impartiality: A Critical Defense Of The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Daniel Koosed
The Paradox Of Impartiality: A Critical Defense Of The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Daniel Koosed
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
Being Gay In Kenya: The Implications Of Kenya’S New Constitution For Its Anti-Sodomy Laws, Courtney E. Finerty
Being Gay In Kenya: The Implications Of Kenya’S New Constitution For Its Anti-Sodomy Laws, Courtney E. Finerty
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Justice Jackson's 1946 Nuremberg Reflections At Buffalo: An Introduction, Alfred S. Konefsky, Tara J. Melish
Justice Jackson's 1946 Nuremberg Reflections At Buffalo: An Introduction, Alfred S. Konefsky, Tara J. Melish
Buffalo Law Review
This Essay introduces the 2011 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture, “From Nuremberg to Buffalo: Justice Jackson’s Enduring Lessons of Morality and Law in a World at War,” a commemoration of Jackson’s 1946 centennial convocation speech at the University of Buffalo. It discusses Jackson’s speech, breaks down its thematic components, and situates the distinguished Mitchell Lecturers’ responses to it in context. Unlike Justice Jackson’s commanding and historic opening and closing statements as U.S. chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Jackson’s 1946 speech, delivered just days after his return from Germany where he heard the Nuremberg Tribunal deliver its final judgment and verdicts, has largely …
A Total Eclipse Of Human Rights-Illustrated By Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., John P. Blanc
A Total Eclipse Of Human Rights-Illustrated By Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., John P. Blanc
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Wane In Spain (Of Universal Jurisdiction): Spain's Forgetful Democratic Transition And The Prosecution Of Tyrants, James J. Friedberg
The Wane In Spain (Of Universal Jurisdiction): Spain's Forgetful Democratic Transition And The Prosecution Of Tyrants, James J. Friedberg
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Sosa Standard: What Does It Mean For Future Ats Litigation?, Virginia Monken Gomez
The Sosa Standard: What Does It Mean For Future Ats Litigation?, Virginia Monken Gomez
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.