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Of Law, Lawlessness, And Sovereignty : Multinational Peacekeeping And International Law, Antje Mays
Of Law, Lawlessness, And Sovereignty : Multinational Peacekeeping And International Law, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Laws of war have been carefully defined by individual nations’ own codes of law as well as by supranational bodies. Yet the international scene has seen an increasing movement away from traditionally declared war toward multinational peacekeeping missions geared at containing local conflicts when perceived as potential threats to their respective regions’ political stability. While individual nations’ laws governing warfare presuppose national sovereignty, the multinational nature of peacekeeping scenarios can blur the lines of command structures, soldiers’ national loyalties, occupational jurisdiction, and raise profound questions as to which countries’ moral sense/governmental system is to be the one upheld. Historically increasingly …
The Internet Is Changing The Public International Legal System, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
The Internet Is Changing The Public International Legal System, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
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Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher
Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher
Reports
A report on the situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area with regard to discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation.The Report on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area contains detailed information on discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. It also includes recommendations on these issues.Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe available at https://www.osce.org/hcnm/32350
The Imprint Of Kosovo On International Law, Diane Orentlicher
The Imprint Of Kosovo On International Law, Diane Orentlicher
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The Norm Of Justice And The Negotiation Of The Rambouillet/Paris Peace Accords, Paul Williams
The Norm Of Justice And The Negotiation Of The Rambouillet/Paris Peace Accords, Paul Williams
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Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie
Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
If indeed, as has been said, "it is fashionable nowadays to discuss the problems that arise from the application of general human rights to extradition", then it is also true that human rights concerns are increasingly being raised with regard to other forms of international criminal co-operation as well. As compliance with international human rights norms has become the subject of greater scrutiny by both States and international adjudicative bodies, concerns have been raised regarding their application to the various processes by which States aid each other in combating transnational crime. Prosecuting authorities are presented with problems of how the …
Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie
Human Rights And International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving The Tension, Robert Currie
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
If indeed, as has been said, "it is fashionable nowadays to discuss the problems that arise from the application of general human rights to extradition", then it is also true that human rights concerns are increasingly being raised with regard to other forms of international criminal co-operation as well. As compliance with international human rights norms has become the subject of greater scrutiny by both States and international adjudicative bodies, concerns have been raised regarding their application to the various processes by which States aid each other in combating transnational crime. Prosecuting authorities are presented with problems of how the …
More Sorry Than Safe: Assessing The Precautionary Principle And The Proposed International Biosafety Protocol, Jonathan H. Adler
More Sorry Than Safe: Assessing The Precautionary Principle And The Proposed International Biosafety Protocol, Jonathan H. Adler
Faculty Publications
Part I of this paper provides a brief overview of the development of biotechnology, its regulation and its use, with a particular emphasis on agricultural biotechnology. Part II outlines the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which provides an international legal framework for a biosafety protocol and summarizes the results of recent protocol negotiations, such as those conducted in Cartagena, Colombia in February 1999, which continued in Montreal in January 2000. Part III explains why the proposed protocol embodies a variant of the precautionary principle and why such policies may do more harm than good. This paper concludes with some …