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Rape And The Exception In Turkish And International Law, Ruth A. Miller Sep 2007

Rape And The Exception In Turkish And International Law, Ruth A. Miller

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Comment suggests, first, that Turkey's new (2004) rape law is indebted to recent trends in international sexual legislation, and second, that both Turkish and international rape law are in turn the product of a century of European exceptionalism. The 2004 Turkish criminal code is a text that has redefined the Turkish state's approach to issues ranging from torture to corruption to immigrant smuggling to rape and adultery. Fundamentally a domestic document, it is aimed at rearticulating and liberalizing the state-citizen relationship in Turkey. At the same time, it is emphatically an international text-a spectacle geared toward moving Turkey one …


Criminal Jurisdiction Over Visiting Naval Forces Under International Law, Walter F. Brown Mar 1967

Criminal Jurisdiction Over Visiting Naval Forces Under International Law, Walter F. Brown

Washington and Lee Law Review

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