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Introduction To The Symposium On Feminist Approaches To International Law Thirty Years On: Still Alienating Oscar?, Catherine Powell, Adrien K. Wing
Introduction To The Symposium On Feminist Approaches To International Law Thirty Years On: Still Alienating Oscar?, Catherine Powell, Adrien K. Wing
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No abstract provided.
The Mainstreaming Of Sex Workers' Rights As Human Rights, Chi Adanna Mgbako
The Mainstreaming Of Sex Workers' Rights As Human Rights, Chi Adanna Mgbako
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No abstract provided.
Race, Gender And Nation In An Age Of Shifting Borders: The Unstable Prism Of Motherhood And Masculinity, Catherine Powell
Race, Gender And Nation In An Age Of Shifting Borders: The Unstable Prism Of Motherhood And Masculinity, Catherine Powell
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Trademark Cosmopolitanism, Sonia K. Katyal
Trademark Cosmopolitanism, Sonia K. Katyal
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The world of global trademarks can be characterized in terms of three major shifts: first, a shift from national to global branding strategies; second, a shift from national and regional systems to harmonized international regimes governing trademark law; and third, a concurrent shift from local to transnational social movements that challenge branding and other corporate practices. The rise of transnational brands brings with it an attendant series of legal shifts in trademark law. Long considered the stepchild of intellectual property law, today, trademark law has morphed into a powerful global legal phenomenon, revealing a foundational shift from national and regional …
Review Of Out In Africa: Lgbt Organizing In Namibia And South Africa, Chi Adanna Mgbako
Review Of Out In Africa: Lgbt Organizing In Namibia And South Africa, Chi Adanna Mgbako
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This is a review of the book Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa by Ashley Currier.
Evaluating The Palestinians’ Claimed Right Of Return, Andrew Kent
Evaluating The Palestinians’ Claimed Right Of Return, Andrew Kent
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This Article takes on a question at the heart of the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian dispute: did Israel violate international law during the conflict of 1947-49 either by expelling Palestinian civilians or by subsequently refusing to repatriate Palestinian refugees? Palestinians have claimed that Israel engaged in illegal ethnic cleansing, and that international law provides a "right of return" for the refugees displaced during what they call al-Nakbah (the catastrophe). Israel has disagreed, blaming Arab aggression and unilateral decisions by Arab inhabitants for the refugees' flight, and asserting that international law provides no right of the refugees to return to Israel. Each side …
A Conversation Without End: Human Rights Law In Perspective?, Colin Harvey
A Conversation Without End: Human Rights Law In Perspective?, Colin Harvey
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Human Rights In The United States Human Rights In The United States: A Special Issue Celebrating The 10th Anniversary Of The Human Rights Institute At Columbia Law School: Foreword, Sarah Cleveland, Catherine Powell
Human Rights In The United States Human Rights In The United States: A Special Issue Celebrating The 10th Anniversary Of The Human Rights Institute At Columbia Law School: Foreword, Sarah Cleveland, Catherine Powell
Faculty Scholarship
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbia Law School. Appropriately, it also marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundational instrument of the modern international human rights regime. When HRI was founded in 1998, it was established as a crossroads for human rights at Columbia, which would bridge theory and practice, human rights and constitutional rights, and law and other disciplines. From its inception, HRI has been a partner with the university-wide Center for the Study of Human Rights, which was established twenty years earlier …
Safe-Conduct Theory Of The Alien Tort Statute, The, Thomas H. Lee
Safe-Conduct Theory Of The Alien Tort Statute, The, Thomas H. Lee
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In this Article, Professor Lee introduces a novel explanation of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) - a founding-era enactment that has achieved modern prominence as a vehicle for international human rights litigation. He demonstrates how the statute was intended to address violations of something called a "safe conduct" - a sovereign promise of safety to aliens from injury to their persons and property. The safe-conduct theory advances a new modern role for the ATS to redress torts committed by private actors - including aliens - with a U.S. sovereign nexus, and not for international law violations committed by anyone anywhere. …
Lifting Our Veil Of Ignorance: Culture, Constitutionalism, And Women's Human Rights In Post-September 11 America , Catherine Powell
Lifting Our Veil Of Ignorance: Culture, Constitutionalism, And Women's Human Rights In Post-September 11 America , Catherine Powell
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This Article challenges the culture clash view of human rights law, which posits a clash between Western countries' presumed respect for women's human rights and non-Western countries' presumed rejection of these rights on cultural and religious grounds. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, this view has taken on new significance, in light of the perceived civilizational divide between the Western and Muslim worlds. The Article calls into question this view, by examining cultural stereotypes of women used to oppose U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. My reading, therefore, is at odds …
United States Human Rights Policy In The 21st Century In An Age Of Multilateralism Respondent, Catherine Powell
United States Human Rights Policy In The 21st Century In An Age Of Multilateralism Respondent, Catherine Powell
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Professor Harold Koh's thoughtful article, A United States Human Rights Policy for the 21st Century, 46 ST. Louis U. L.J. 293 (2002), ends with the observation that "globalization has both sinister and constructive faces."' Indeed, we live in a world that is increasingly interdependent. Even some of those opposed to the project of globalization ironically depend on the tools of globalization to undermine it. Consider the terrorists who hijacked airplanes on September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands of innocent civilians from many different nations. The terrorists used the Internet and …