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Saddam Hussein's Trial In Iraq: Fairness, Legitimacy & Alternatives, A Legal Analysis, Christian Eckart May 2006

Saddam Hussein's Trial In Iraq: Fairness, Legitimacy & Alternatives, A Legal Analysis, Christian Eckart

Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers

The paper focuses on Saddam Hussein’s trial in front of the Iraqi High Criminal Court in Baghdad. After providing an overview of the facts surrounding the court’s installation, the applicable international law is identified and the fairness and legitimacy of the current proceedings are analyzed. The paper finishes by considering whether the trial should be relocated and addresses alternative venues that could have been chosen to prosecute Iraq’s ex-dictator.


Legal Approaches And The Contributions Of Case Law, Claudio Grossman Jan 2006

Legal Approaches And The Contributions Of Case Law, Claudio Grossman

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Immunity Or Impunity The Potential Effect Of Prosecutions Of State Officials For Core International Crimes In States Like The United States That Are Not Parties To The Statute Of The International, Mark A. Summers Jan 2006

Immunity Or Impunity The Potential Effect Of Prosecutions Of State Officials For Core International Crimes In States Like The United States That Are Not Parties To The Statute Of The International, Mark A. Summers

Faculty Scholarship

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Addressing The Scourge Of Human Trafficking: The Challenge Ahead, Roza Pati Jan 2006

Addressing The Scourge Of Human Trafficking: The Challenge Ahead, Roza Pati

Faculty Articles

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The Equality Paradise: Paradoxes Of The Law's Power To Advance Equality, Marcia L. Mccormick Jan 2006

The Equality Paradise: Paradoxes Of The Law's Power To Advance Equality, Marcia L. Mccormick

All Faculty Scholarship

This paper, written for Texas Wesleyan Law School's Gloucester Conference, ¿Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality,¿ is a brief exploration of a broader project. Every civil rights movement must struggle with how to allocate scarce resources to accomplish the broadest change possible. This paper compares the legal and political strategies of the Black rights movement and the women's rights movement in the United States, comparing both the strategy choices and the results. These two movement followed essentially the same strategies. Where they have attained success and where each has failed demonstrates the limits …