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The Hidden Costs Of Strategic Communications For The International Criminal Court, Megan A. Fairlie
The Hidden Costs Of Strategic Communications For The International Criminal Court, Megan A. Fairlie
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In little more than a decade, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has received nearly 11,000 requests for its Prosecutor to conduct atrocity investigations around the globe. To date, no such communication has resulted in an official investigation. Nevertheless, the act of publicizing these investigation requests has proven to be an effective, attention-getting tool that can achieve valuable, alternative goals. This fact explains the increasing popularity of “strategic communications” — highly publicized investigation requests aimed not at securing any ICC-related activity, but at obtaining some non-Court related advantage. This Article, which is the first to identify this trend, explains why the …
Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M C. Mirow
Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M C. Mirow
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The two most recent paradigmatic moments in the development of property law were the construction of "social property" about a hundred years ago and of "international property" quite recently. This study analyses two important texts as illustrations of these changes: Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and John Sprankling's book The International Law of Property (2014). Each text signals a paradigm shift in our understanding of property.