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Freedom Or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism In Afghanistan And Iraq, Hannibal Travis

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Commentary By Ambassadors To The United Nations, Henry Bienen, Feisal Istrabadi, Jan Wouters, Sir David Hannay

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

The Applicability Of The Regime Of Human Rights In Times Of Armed Conflict And Particularly To Occupied Territories: The Case Of Israel's Security Barrier, Barry A. Feinstein

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Indoor Geo-Location And Tracking Of Mobile Autonomous Robot, Mahesh Ramamurthy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The field of robotics has always been one of fascination right from the day of Terminator. Even though we still do not have robots that can actually replicate human action and intelligence, progress is being made in the right direction. Robotic applications range from defense to civilian, in public safety and fire fighting. With the increase in urban-warfare robot tracking inside buildings and in cities form a very important application. The numerous applications range from munitions tracking to replacing soldiers for reconnaissance information. Fire fighters use robots for survey of the affected area. Tracking robots has been limited to the …

Full Issue, Bird Observer

Bird Observer

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Post-Conflict Justice In Iraq: An Appraisal Of The Iraq Special Tribunal, M. Cherif Bassiouni

Cornell International Law Journal

Argues that post-conflict justice is desperately needed in Iraq. The desire of the Iraqi people for post-conflict justice against Saddam Hussein's regime has been overshadowed by the 2003 invasion by coalition forces, post-occupation internal violence, & Abu Ghraib torture by American forces. The goals of post-conflict justice include enhancing social reconciliation while avoiding individual acts of vengeance; restoring an independent judiciary; holding officials responsible for systematic repression; & prosecuting Saddam. The evolution of post-conflict justice proposals over the last decade is traced. It is acknowledged that the establishment of the Iraq Special Tribunal was an important first step on the …

Combating Terrorism: Does Self-Defense Include The Security Barrier - The Answer Depends On Who You Ask, Emanuel Gross

Cornell International Law Journal

Explores the opposing opinions of the Israeli Supreme Court & the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality of the security fence constructed by Israel to prevent terrorist infiltration from the Palestinian territories. It is argued that the different conclusions of the two tribunals resulted from inadequate implementation of the legal norms by the ICJ. Difficulties arising from terminological differences between the Supreme Court's judgment & the ICJ opinion are pointed out, along with basic errors related to the ICJs conclusion that the fence was not a matter of self-defense but an issue related to the realization of political …

Ending Impunity: How International Criminal Law Can Put Tyrants On Trial, Geoffrey Robertson

Cornell International Law Journal

In this keynote address to the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author argues that the two trials demonstrate that the historical immunity problem of tyrants has been solved, & have ushered in a period when international justice will have its own momentum. Historical analysis of the denial of impunity to tyrants relates the evolution of sovereign immunity in the Treaty of Westphalia, & the trials of Charles I, Louis XVI, & Napoleon. Head of state immunity was further removed in the Nuremberg Tribunals, & international accountability for international crimes was established with the trial of Prime Minister …

Global Criminal Justice: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed, Jeremy Rabkin

Cornell International Law Journal

In this article in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author argues that not only is global justice brain dead as a possible reality, but the concept was always an unreachable dream in a world with no global authority to be held accountable for the world's misery. Explanation of the author's assertions locates the source of the dream in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), since it was the only truly international tribunal in history. The advantage of local or national justice over issues of moral hazard, challenges to justice, the political responsibility of …

Defining Terms In The 1982 Law Of The Sea Convention Iv: The Last Round Of Definitions Proposed By The International Law Association (American Branch) Law Of The Sea Committee, George K. Walker

California Western International Law Journal

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Going Toe To Toe: President Barak's And Chief Justice Rehnquist's Theories Of Judicial Activism, Amos N. Guiora, Erin M. Page

UC Law SF International Law Review

A critical component of a liberal democracy's counterterrorism efforts is the role of that nation's judiciary. The concept of an unfettered executive, unrestrained by courts and legislatures alike, is detrimental to a nation attempting to balance national security and individual rights. The authors analyze whether, and how, the courts in the United States and Israel truly review executive decisions regarding armed conflict by analyzing decisions of the two Supreme Courts and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's and President Barak's writings.

Criminal Responsibility For Non-State Civilian Superiors Lacking De Jure Authority: A Comparative Review Of The Doctrine Of Superior Responsibility And Parallel Doctrines In National Criminal Laws, Avi Singh

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Battlefields, Tools, And Targets: Archives And Armed Conflict, Patricia A. Nugent

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Kenneth Foote notes in his seminal book on memorials Shadowed Ground that, "Every society in every period has borne witness to war, disaster, violence and tragedy." The universal nature of conflict is, of course, well known, so it is perhaps not surprising that, as with many other institutions of society, archives have been impacted by human violence and destruction. Indeed, the birth of the archival profession is often closely associated with one of the most important wars in history-the French Revolution of 1789. In the aftermath of the revolution, the new French government sought to make the records of the …

Are Video Games Art?, Aaron Smuts

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I argue that by any major definition of art many modern video games should be considered art. Rather than defining art and defending video games based on a single contentious definition, I offer reasons for thinking that video games can be art according to historical, aesthetic, institutional, representational and expressive theories of art. Overall, I argue that while many video games probably should not be considered art, there are good reasons to think that some video games should be classified as art, and that the debates concerning the artistic status of chess and sports offer some insights …

Mobile Telephone Detection, Benjamin Moss, Todd Hubing

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

A common threat to military personnel in Iraq is the use of unconventional warfare. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are crudely fashioned using explosives wired to consumer radio electronics. Garage door openers, two-way radios, and mobile telephones are a small sampling of the devices used in IEDs. The diverse nature of these devices makes it difficult to preemptively detect an IED using traditional means. Various methods of mobile phone detection are investigated, taking into account the type of phone and the available detection equipment. Specifically, a first-generation mobile phone is detected using an oscilloscope and MATLAB.

Be Reasonable! Thoughts On The Effectiveness Of State Criticism In Enforcing International Law, Michael Y. Kieval

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note examines the effectiveness of diplomatic criticism in enforcing international law, particularly in the counter-terrorism (or anti-insurgency) context. It is not concerned with determining what international law does or does not "in fact" allow States to do in combating terrorism and other existential threats.

Proclamation In Cross-Cultural Context: Missiological Implications Of The Book Of Daniel, Sung Ik Kim

Dissertations

This study attempts to explore the biblical foundation ofsalvific mission as revealed in God's purposes for the nations (missio Dei ) in the book of Daniel and to investigate the means that Daniel employed in his ministry as an overt missionary who was sent to witness to God's salvific purpose in the cross-cultural context of heathen kingdoms.

The main objective of this research is to validate the book of Daniel as a missionary document and show that its missiological implications are still relevant to present-day missions. Chapter 2 explores the salvific purpose of missio Dei in the book of …

Effects Of Content Augmentation Strategies In An Instructional Virtual Environment, Roger Hamilton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Content augmentation strategies (CAS) are instructional methods which specify the overlaying of content objects by content augmentation objects in order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of instruction. The goals of this research were to build a comprehensive framework around CASs, determine the experimental effects of CASs in an instructional virtual environment (VE), and make recommendations regarding the employment and further study of CASs in instructional virtual environments. The VE experiment examined the effectiveness and efficiency impact of six different content augmentation strategies which overlayed different content augmentation objects onto four immersive VE scenarios. Sixty university students, 40 men and …

Afterword "We Are Now Of The View"*: Backlash Activism, Cultural Cleansing, And The Kulturkampf To Resurrect The Old Deal, Francisco Valdes

Articles

No abstract provided.

Grandfathers, Grandsons, Morality, And Radical Politics In Late Colonial Buganda, Carol Summers

History Faculty Publications

Late in 1948, one of the radical Luganda newspapers in Buganda printed Dionizio Sifirwakange's rhetorical and distinctly aggrieved questions: "Has it become a crime for schoolchildren to evince patriotic sentiments? Why does the Government prohibit the assembly of the Bataka at the houses of their 'grandfathers'?"¹

Sifirwakange was complaining about the repressive response of the Kingdom of Buganda and its ally, the Protectorate of Uganda, to a political and social movement whose most visible adherents were the patriotic schoolchildren, along with other youth and men of all ages, who assembled by the thousands at the homes of their grandfathers …

Book Review: Harm's Way: Disasters In Western Canada, Patricia E. Roy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Anthony Rasporich says that a "sense of struggle, of painful discovery, and loss of innocence" in the face of disasters is "embedded in the Canadian consciousness" with the same sense of urgency felt south of the border but with "a different collective sense." Some essays in this collection on the Prairie West do allude to that comparison. Hugh Dempsey shows that nineteenth-century smallpox epidemics did not respect the border and weakened the ability of the Native peoples to resist European settlement. Janice Dickin's analysis of the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 in Calgary, however, only suggests that Canadians and Americans …

Review Of Native North American Armor, Shields, And Fortifications By David E. Jones, Robert Fields

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David Jones's purpose is to fill the curious gap in studies of the armor used in raids and warfare by the Native peoples of North America. Lacking iron and steel technology, Native Americans constructed their armor of "wood and bone (hard armor), leather (soft armor), and combinations of hard and soft materials."

The need for armor, Jones states in his introduction, preceded European contact, since "warfare was endemic among the North American Indians." He goes on to maintain that the superiority of European technology made Indian defeat inevitable, despite whatever improvements in armor production Indians might have made. "If Native …

Master Sun's Art Of War: Translation And Philosophical Commentary, Eric Colwell

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

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Rejoinder: The War On Terrorism: International Law, Clear Statement Requirements, And Constituitional Design, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Congressional Authorization And The War On Terrorism, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith

Faculty Scholarship

This Article presents a framework for interpreting Congress's September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the central statutory enactment related to the war on terrorism. Although both constitutional theory and constitutional practice suggest that the validity of presidential wartime actions depends to a significant degree on their relationship to congressional authorization, the meaning and implications of the AUMF have received little attention in the academic debates over the war on terrorism. The framework presented in this Article builds on the analysis in the Supreme Court's plurality opinion in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which devoted significant attention to the …

What Is New In The New Statutory Interpretation? Introduction To The Journal Of Contemporary Legal Issues Symposium, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of Fourth-Generation Warfare, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Culture By Law: Backlash As Jurisprudence, Francisco Valdes

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

The War On Terrorism: International Law, Clear Statement Requirements, And Constitutional Design, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith

Articles

In Congressional Authorization and the War on Terrorism,¹ we presented a framework for interpreting Congress’s September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force² (AUMF), the central statutory enactment related to the war on terrorism. Congressional Authorization addressed a puzzling gap in the academic literature: although both constitutional theory and constitutional practice suggest that the validity of presidential wartime actions depends to a significant degree on their relationship to congressional authorization, the meaning and implications of the AUMF have received little attention in the academic debates over the war on terrorism.

The framework in Congressional Authorization built on …

Congressional Authorization And The War On Terrorism, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith

Articles

This Article presents a framework for interpreting Congress's September 18, 2001Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the central statutory enactment related to the war on terrorism. Although both constitutional theory and constitutional practice suggest that the validity of presidential wartime actions depends to a significant degree on their relationship to congressional authorization, the meaning and implications of the AUMF have received little attention in the academic debates over the war on terrorism.The framework presented in this Article builds on the analysis in the Supreme Court's plurality opinion in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which devoted significant attention to the AUME Under …