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Nuremberg - Fifty Years: Accountability And Responsibility, William G. Eckhardt Oct 1996

Nuremberg - Fifty Years: Accountability And Responsibility, William G. Eckhardt

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Noted Japanese Jurist Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment Jul 1996

Noted Japanese Jurist Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

No abstract provided.


Human Rights Monitoring In Germany: A Rejoinder, Maryellen Fullerton Jan 1996

Human Rights Monitoring In Germany: A Rejoinder, Maryellen Fullerton

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Federal Courts And World Civil Society, Gordon A. Christenson Jan 1996

Federal Courts And World Civil Society, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This article proposes that in all international civil litigation federal judges should use international and foreign law pragmatically as an aid to decisions which further the substantive values of "world civil society." These values are similar to those of civil society in a federal republic with an elaborate bill of rights - to preserve voluntary associations of human dignity and enterprise whose spirit transcends the public order of sovereign states.


The Politics Of Human Rights: Beyond The Abolitionist Paradigm In Africa (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1996

The Politics Of Human Rights: Beyond The Abolitionist Paradigm In Africa (Review Essay), Makau Wa Mutua

Book Reviews

Review of Claude E. Welch, Protecting Human Rights in America: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations (1995).


The First Five-Year Span (1989-1994): Law And Religion In Post-Communist Hungary, Helen E. Hartnell Jan 1996

The First Five-Year Span (1989-1994): Law And Religion In Post-Communist Hungary, Helen E. Hartnell

Publications

The goals of this article are to examine the most significant developments in Hungary during the 1989-1994 period and to situate them in the larger context of international human-rights law. After briefly setting forth an analytical framework for religious liberty and the separation of church and state, this article describes and analyzes the pertinent Hungarian laws and court decisions, and concludes that despite significant improvement in religion's legal status, its actual situation is precarious.


The World Bank, The Imf, And Human Rights, Daniel D. Bradlow Jan 1996

The World Bank, The Imf, And Human Rights, Daniel D. Bradlow

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This paper explores the type of human rights obligations of the World Bank and the IMF. It argues that their human rights obligations can be divided into two sets of issues. First is operational issues, which relate to both the promotion and protection of human rights. Second is institutional issues, which deal with the internal rules and procedures of the World Bank and the IMF. The paper concludes that these organizations need to develop a coherent and explicit human rights policy.


Lessons From The Americas: Guidelines For International Response To Amnesties For Atrocities, Douglass Cassel Jan 1996

Lessons From The Americas: Guidelines For International Response To Amnesties For Atrocities, Douglass Cassel

Journal Articles

Amnesty guidelines modeled on international law as defined by Latin American tribunals and treaties should be adopted and used by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and national governments involved in remedying human rights violations. The 10 guidelines are stringent and would rarely result in the granting of amnesty. They may better serve their function than treaties or customary laws be cause they are guidelines and not mandatory.


Constitutionalism In The Global Era, Elisabeth Zoller Jan 1996

Constitutionalism In The Global Era, Elisabeth Zoller

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


"Two Souls To Struggle With....": The Failing Implementation Of Hungary's New Minorities Law And Discrimination Against Gypsies, Timothy W. Waters, Rachel Guglielmo Jan 1996

"Two Souls To Struggle With....": The Failing Implementation Of Hungary's New Minorities Law And Discrimination Against Gypsies, Timothy W. Waters, Rachel Guglielmo

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Awas Tingni Petition To The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights: Indigenous Lands, Loggers, And Government Neglect In Nicaragua, S. James Anaya Jan 1996

The Awas Tingni Petition To The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights: Indigenous Lands, Loggers, And Government Neglect In Nicaragua, S. James Anaya

Publications

No abstract provided.


(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations On Progressive Social Change, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp Jan 1996

(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations On Progressive Social Change, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp

Faculty Scholarship

Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as "cultural, or as the importation of a form of exploitation that normally does not happen here but occurs elsewhere, in the "Third World." While the public was shocked by the discovery at El Monte, garment workers and garment worker advocates have for years been describing abuses in the garment industry and have ascribed responsibility for such abuses to manufacturers and retailers who control the industry. Sweatshops, like the one in El Monte, are a home-grown problem with peculiarly American roots. Since the inception of the garment …


Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, And Human Rights , Tracy E. Higgins Jan 1996

Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, And Human Rights , Tracy E. Higgins

Faculty Scholarship

Confronted with the challenge of cultural relativism, feminism faces divergent paths, neither of which seems to lead out of the woods of patriarchy. The first path, leading to simple tolerance of cultural difference, is too broad. To follow it would require feminists to ignore pervasive limits on women's freedom in the name of an autonomy that exists for women in theory only. The other path, leading to objective condemnation of cultural practices, is too narrow. To follow it would require feminists to dismiss the culturally distinct experiences of women as false consciousness. Yet to forge an alternative path is difficult, …


The Right To Self-Defense Once The Security Council Takes Action, Malvina Halberstam Jan 1996

The Right To Self-Defense Once The Security Council Takes Action, Malvina Halberstam

Articles

No abstract provided.


Terrorism And Hostages In International Law: A Commentary On The Hostages Convention 1979, Christopher L. Blakesley Jan 1996

Terrorism And Hostages In International Law: A Commentary On The Hostages Convention 1979, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

In this piece, Professor Blakesley reviews “Terrorism and Hostages in International Law: A Commentary on the Hostages Convention 1979” by Joseph J. Lambert.