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Norm Supercompliance And The Status Of Soft Law, Brian Sheppard
Norm Supercompliance And The Status Of Soft Law, Brian Sheppard
Buffalo Law Review
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Creating A Modern Atlantis: Recognizing Submerging States And Their People, Jessica L. Noto
Creating A Modern Atlantis: Recognizing Submerging States And Their People, Jessica L. Noto
Buffalo Law Review
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Human Rights Conventions And Reservations: An Examination Of A Critical Deficit In The Cedaw, Michael L. Buenger
Human Rights Conventions And Reservations: An Examination Of A Critical Deficit In The Cedaw, Michael L. Buenger
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
Human rights agreements like the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) contain language that seeks to inspire and establish the legal boundaries of state action with regards to protected rights. Such agreements also contain reservation provisions that enable states to join an agreement and simultaneously exempt themselves from the very substantive goals the agreement seeks to achieve. In the past, the issue of reservation compatibility has been treated as political questions under an objection process. Establishing a mechanism for testing reservation compatibility before the International Court of Justice is a better means of ensuring …
What Do Human Rights Lawyers Do: Examining Practice And Expertise In The Field, Elizabeth Bruch
What Do Human Rights Lawyers Do: Examining Practice And Expertise In The Field, Elizabeth Bruch
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
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Responsibility To Protect: Arab Spring Perspectives, Rob Dickinson
Responsibility To Protect: Arab Spring Perspectives, Rob Dickinson
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
In this article important issues of legitimacy of government and external interference in the affairs of a State are raised. As a prelimi- nary, the rights and obligations of a State with regard to territorial integrity and sovereignty are considered, prior to analyses of the emergent concept of the responsibility to protect and the principle of self-determination. The article then takes into account events of the Arab Spring, before the author concludes by drawing lessons for States, not only those whose people look to change their own govern- ments, or style of governments, but also those intent on intervention in …
The Chaplaincy Exception In International Humanitarian Law: "American-Born Cleric" Anwar Awlaki And The Global War On Terror, K. Benson
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
Anwar al-Awlaki, frequently described by the media as an "Ameri- can-born cleric," was the first American citizen to be targeted for extrajudicial assassination by the Obama administration as part of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). While there have been scholarly works considering the legality of his killing under domestic law, none have examined his status as a chaplain under International Humanita- rian Law (IHL), what this designation could mean for the legality of Anwar al-Alwaki's killing, or what his killing could mean for the GWOT in general. This paper provides a necessarily brief history of Al Qaeda in the …