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Why The Court Said No, David Cole
Why The Court Said No, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Calling Genocide By Its Rightful Name: Lemkin's Word, Darfur, And The Un Report, David Luban
Calling Genocide By Its Rightful Name: Lemkin's Word, Darfur, And The Un Report, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
When the United Nations commission investigating Darfur issued its report in January 2005, it concluded that the Darfur atrocities represented war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide. This had the harmful effect of deflating efforts to mobilize political support to halt the Darfur atrocities. But the Commission's conclusion was based entirely on technicalities in the legal definitions of the international crimes, not on denial that extermination is going on in Darfur. In this paper, the author argues that the legal and popular meanings of genocide have diverged in harmful ways: where laymen understand that mass killings and rapes …
Anglo-American Privacy And Surveillance, Laura K. Donohue
Anglo-American Privacy And Surveillance, Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The United States’ Terrorism Surveillance Program represents just one of many expansions in surveillance since 9/11, as legal controls previously introduced to protect citizens’ privacy and to prevent the misuse of surveillance powers have been relaxed. What makes the situation qualitatively different now is not just the lowering of the bar: digitization and the rapid advancement of technology mean that the type and volume of information currently available eclipse that of previous generations. The issue is not confined to the United States. Despite the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into British law, the United Kingdom also appears …