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The Role Of Human Rights In Global Securtiy Issues: A Normative And Institutional Critique, Douglas Lee Donoho Jan 1993

The Role Of Human Rights In Global Securtiy Issues: A Normative And Institutional Critique, Douglas Lee Donoho

Michigan Journal of International Law

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the institutional and normative capacity of international human rights to effectively serve such enhanced roles in global peace and security matters. In particular, the analysis focuses on key normative and institutional weaknesses in the existing U.N. human rights system and addresses their implications for the roles which human rights might serve to enhance peace. By describing some of the system's fundamental weaknesses, this analysis also indicates important areas for reform within the U.N. system.


Vital Interests And The Law Of Gatt: An Analysis Of Gatt's Security Exception, Michael J. Hahn Jan 1991

Vital Interests And The Law Of Gatt: An Analysis Of Gatt's Security Exception, Michael J. Hahn

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article will ask to what extent article XXI allows Contracting Parties to escape obligations of GATT and to what extent it should.