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Inequality, Covid-19, And International Human Rights: Whose Lives Matter?, Barbara J. Stark
Inequality, Covid-19, And International Human Rights: Whose Lives Matter?, Barbara J. Stark
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Part 1 of the article shows that the poor, everywhere, are more likely to get sick and more likely to die when they do. In many countries, they are also more likely to starve.
Part II explains why this is a matter of human rights. The ongoing deprivation of basic rights to healthcare and an adequate standard of living are major factors. As this Part demonstrates, however, the extreme vulnerability of the poor is grounded in earlier violations of human rights, including state-sanctioned segregation in the American south in the 1950s and what one author has called “the darker side …
The Principles On Agreements: "Fairness" And International Human Rights Law, Barbara J. Stark
The Principles On Agreements: "Fairness" And International Human Rights Law, Barbara J. Stark
Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship
Family law is again in turmoil, and the ALI Principles are an ambitious and sometimes inspired effort to increase clarity and fairness. This turmoil can be attributed to two major factors. First, family law is ground zero in the gender wars. Second, family law is reeling from the upheavals of globalization. These factors provide the backdrop against which the dilemmas addressed in Chapter 7, Agreements, play out.
Chapter 7 focuses on a particularly intriguing tension, between commercial contracts and premarital agreements. This tension is grounded in the broader tension between American views on freedom of contract and autonomy in general, …