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Measuring State Compliance With The Right To Education Using Indicators: A Case Study Of Colombia’S Obligations Under The Icescr, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn Getgen, Steven A. Koh Mar 2009

Measuring State Compliance With The Right To Education Using Indicators: A Case Study Of Colombia’S Obligations Under The Icescr, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn Getgen, Steven A. Koh

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

The right to education is often referred to as a “multiplier right” because its enjoyment enhances other human rights. It is enumerated in several international instruments, but it is codified in greatest detail in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Despite its importance, the right to education has received limited attention from scholars, practitioners, and international and regional human rights bodies as compared to other economic, social and cultural rights (ECSRs). In this Article, we propose a methodology that utilizes indicators to measure treaty compliance with the right to education. Indicators are essential to measuring compliance …


Taking Distribution Seriously, Robert C. Hockett Jul 2008

Taking Distribution Seriously, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

It is common for legal theorists and policy analysts to think and communicate mainly in maximizing terms. What is less common is for them to notice that each time we speak explicitly of socially maximizing one thing, we speak implicitly of distributing another thing and equalizing yet another thing. We also, moreover, effectively define ourselves and our fellow citizens by reference to that which we equalize; for it is in virtue of the latter that our social welfare formulations treat us as “counting” for purposes of socially aggregating and maximizing.

To attend systematically to the inter-translatability of maximization language on …


Toward A Critical Race Realism, Gregory Scott Parks Jul 2008

Toward A Critical Race Realism, Gregory Scott Parks

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Discrimination: The Law Vs. Morality, Walter E. Williams Oct 2003

Discrimination: The Law Vs. Morality, Walter E. Williams

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Order Efficiency And The State: A Commentary , Jeffrey L. Harrison Jul 1997

Order Efficiency And The State: A Commentary , Jeffrey L. Harrison

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Provincialism In United States Courts , Patrick M. Mcfadden Nov 1995

Provincialism In United States Courts , Patrick M. Mcfadden

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Teach Your Students Well: Valuing Clients In The Law School Clinic, Ann Juergens Apr 1993

Teach Your Students Well: Valuing Clients In The Law School Clinic, Ann Juergens

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Legal Realism And The Social Contract: Fuller’S Public Jurisprudence Of Form Private Jurisprudence Of Substance , James Boyle Mar 1993

Legal Realism And The Social Contract: Fuller’S Public Jurisprudence Of Form Private Jurisprudence Of Substance , James Boyle

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Seeking… The Faces Of Otherness…: A Response To Professors Sarat Felstiner And Cahn , Lucie E. White Sep 1992

Seeking… The Faces Of Otherness…: A Response To Professors Sarat Felstiner And Cahn , Lucie E. White

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power , Richard Delgado May 1992

Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power , Richard Delgado

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Postmodernism/Feminism/Law , Dennis Patterson Jan 1992

Postmodernism/Feminism/Law , Dennis Patterson

Cornell Law Review

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Beyond Skepticism Foundationalism And The New Fuzziness: The Role Of Wide Reflective Equilibrium In Legal Theory , Robert Justin Lipkin May 1990

Beyond Skepticism Foundationalism And The New Fuzziness: The Role Of Wide Reflective Equilibrium In Legal Theory , Robert Justin Lipkin

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudence And Judicial Treatment Of The Comments To The Uniform Commercial Code , Sean Michael Hannaway May 1990

Jurisprudence And Judicial Treatment Of The Comments To The Uniform Commercial Code , Sean Michael Hannaway

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Discussion: Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism Jan 1988

Discussion: Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism , Richard Posner Jan 1988

Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism , Richard Posner

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism , Charles Fried Jan 1988

Jurisprudential Responses To Legal Realism , Charles Fried

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Discussion: The Classical Theory Of Law Jan 1988

Discussion: The Classical Theory Of Law

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Death Of The Law , Owen M. Fiss Nov 1986

Death Of The Law , Owen M. Fiss

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ninth Amendment, Raoul Berger Nov 1980

Ninth Amendment, Raoul Berger

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Thomas Hobbes And The Law, J. H. Hexter Apr 1980

Thomas Hobbes And The Law, J. H. Hexter

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.