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‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula Jan 2012

‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula

Societies Without Borders

This article uses the first domestic violence case filed against the United States in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to discuss the politics of gender and domestic violence. We discuss how gender-neutral frameworks of the case in the U.S. ignore the interpersonal gender and power issues which often attend domestic violence cases. The case before the IACHR was arguably more successful in addressing gender by drawing from the human rights literature on women’s rights. However, given that this case is the first human rights charge against the United States by a domestic violence survivor, the specifically gendered framework …


Corporate Governance: The Swedish Solution, George W. Dent Jan 2012

Corporate Governance: The Swedish Solution, George W. Dent

Faculty Publications

Sweden has changed its corporate governance system by delegating the nomination of corporate directors (and thus, in effect, ultimate control) to committees typically comprising representatives of each company’s largest shareholders. This system gives shareholders a degree of power “that only the most daring corporate governance initiatives in the rest of the world could even imagine.” By all accounts the change has been successful; no one is complaining about it.

In the United States investors have long been kept weak in corporate governance for fear that giving them a major role would damage corporations in numerous ways. The Swedish experience seems …


Rating The Raters: Restoring Confidence And Accountability In Credit Rating Agencies, Ryan Voorhees Jan 2012

Rating The Raters: Restoring Confidence And Accountability In Credit Rating Agencies, Ryan Voorhees

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


United States Ratification Of The Law Of The Sea Convention: Securing Our Navigational Future While Managing China's Blue Water Ambitions, Michael J. Kelly Jan 2012

United States Ratification Of The Law Of The Sea Convention: Securing Our Navigational Future While Managing China's Blue Water Ambitions, Michael J. Kelly

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


72 Years Later: Still Seeking Accountability For The Katyn Forest Massacre, Allan Gerson Jan 2012

72 Years Later: Still Seeking Accountability For The Katyn Forest Massacre, Allan Gerson

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Somebody Else's Problem: How The United States And Canada Violate International Law And Fail To Ensure The Prosecution Of War Criminals, Nicholas P. Weiss Jan 2012

Somebody Else's Problem: How The United States And Canada Violate International Law And Fail To Ensure The Prosecution Of War Criminals, Nicholas P. Weiss

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.