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Refugees And Internally Displaced: A Challenge To Nation-Building, Rebecca M.M. Wallace, Diego Quiroz Oct 2017

Refugees And Internally Displaced: A Challenge To Nation-Building, Rebecca M.M. Wallace, Diego Quiroz

Maine Law Review

Recent statistics published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate that there are at least 32.9 million people who are “persons of concern to UNHCR.” This growing population includes “refugees, returnees, [and] stateless and internally displaced persons (IDPs).” Furthermore, it is estimated that there are some “[thirty] states in the world . . . that are at some stage or another along the road to possible failure.” These are weak states beset by invasion, civil war, ethnic rivalry and tribal warfare, or struggling in the wake of any of these catastrophes. Given that 2006 saw a fifty-six …


Culture And Custom In Nation-Building: Law In Afghanistan, Thomas Barfield Oct 2017

Culture And Custom In Nation-Building: Law In Afghanistan, Thomas Barfield

Maine Law Review

Afghanistan’s restoration of the rule of law has set in motion a renewed debate about fundamental legal principles that has not been seen in the West since the time of the Enlightenment: Who is justice for? Who has the right to seek compensation or justice? Does the state or the individual have priority in seeking justice and delivering punishment? Is law a human creation or is it rooted in divine authority? But it is a debate without an audience in the international community that is assisting the Afghan government in restoring its judicial system because the answer appears so self-evident. …


The Legal Architecture Of Nation-Building: An Introduction, Charles H. Norchi Oct 2017

The Legal Architecture Of Nation-Building: An Introduction, Charles H. Norchi

Maine Law Review

In the future, a historian studying the early twenty-first century will observe a trend: numerous lawyers applying their skill sets to the problems of pathological states. Our future historian will note that the topography of the post-Cold War international system was marked by weakly-governed states failing. Fragile states eroded, frayed, and disintegrated under stress, and their internal social processes became highly susceptible to external forces. Powerful non-state actors, including private armies, operated within the porous boundaries of entities that were once functioning polities. Legal authority became divorced from political control as non-state actors wielded naked power, challenging formal state structures …


The Inkwell, Armstrong State University Oct 2017

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

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Can Self-Defense Serve As An Appropriate Tool Against International Terrorism?, Jan Kittrich Oct 2017

Can Self-Defense Serve As An Appropriate Tool Against International Terrorism?, Jan Kittrich

Maine Law Review

The phenomenon of terrorism represents one of the gravest challenges to international order, peace, and security. The unpredictable nature of terrorist attacks threatens the public safety of each member of the international community. At the same time, member states’ responses to terrorism appear to threaten the homogeneity of modern international law and disrupt the uniform system of legal rules. In some aspects, it also seems to divide the community of international scholars. Simply put, terrorism deviates from the rule of law and so might the responsive action that it necessitates. This is the potential danger that terrorism intentionally aims to …


Opportunity Lost, Opportunity Found: A Proposal To Amend Maine's Rule Of Evidence 404 To Admit "Prior Acts" Evidence In Domestic Violence Prosecutions, Tina Heather Nadeau Oct 2017

Opportunity Lost, Opportunity Found: A Proposal To Amend Maine's Rule Of Evidence 404 To Admit "Prior Acts" Evidence In Domestic Violence Prosecutions, Tina Heather Nadeau

Maine Law Review

In 2008, thirty-one people were the victims of homicide in the state of Maine. Even more startling: nineteen of these homicides stemmed from domestic violence, possibly the largest number of domestic-violence-related killings in the state's history. This means that nearly 70 percent of Maine's homicides in 2008 were the result of domestic violence. Amendments made in 2007 (and implemented in February 2008) to Maine's Criminal Code have criminalized particular instances of domestic violence as “enhanced” crimes of violence. This allows prosecutors to consider “prior acts” of domestic abuse when deciding how to charge a criminal defendant accused of a domestic-violence-related …


The Crime Of Conviction Of John Choon Yoo: The Actual Criminality In The Olc During The Bush Administration, Joseph Lavitt Oct 2017

The Crime Of Conviction Of John Choon Yoo: The Actual Criminality In The Olc During The Bush Administration, Joseph Lavitt

Maine Law Review

At the outset of the administration of President Barack Obama, there is intense debate about whether to prosecute members of the former administration of President George W. Bush. This Article first considers whether officers who were in command and control of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States during the Bush administration can be excused from criminal responsibility on charges of illegal torture, based on their claim to have acted in good faith reliance upon the advice of attorneys employed by the Department of Justice. Focus then turns to the accountability, if any, of those attorneys in …


Fighting The New Wars Of Religion: The Need For A Tolerant First Amendment, Leslie C. Griffin Oct 2017

Fighting The New Wars Of Religion: The Need For A Tolerant First Amendment, Leslie C. Griffin

Maine Law Review

Religious wars have broken out around the country about the legality of gay marriage, the consequences of gay ordination for property ownership, the funding of faith-based organizations and the placement of crosses and Ten Commandments (but not Seven Aphorisms) on public land. To resolve such impassioned disputes, Americans traditionally look to the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, which state "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Unfortunately, the Court's modern decisions interpreting those clauses have shed more heat than light on the discussion and have provoked ongoing controversy instead of …


The Anchor, Volume 131.06: October 18, 2017, Hope College Oct 2017

The Anchor, Volume 131.06: October 18, 2017, Hope College

The Anchor: 2017

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.


Daily Eastern News: October 18, 2017, Eastern Illinois University Oct 2017

Daily Eastern News: October 18, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Spartan Daily, October 17, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2017

Spartan Daily, October 17, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 23


Cia: The Critical Years, Ryan Freer Oct 2017

Cia: The Critical Years, Ryan Freer

The Eastern Illinois University Political Science Review

Our foreign policy agenda in the Middle East is attributed to the decisions of the CIA's Director's of Intelligence (DCI) and the President's they served. The author examines how two DCI's, an a third to a lesser degree, have impacted the agency during their tenures, and how the operations of the CIA in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran in the decades leading up to the attacks of 9/11 culminated in this tragedy.


Lawyering With Heart: A Warrior Ethos For Modern Lawyers Reviewing Allan C. Hutchinson, Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics For An Adversarial Age, W. Bradley Wendel Oct 2017

Lawyering With Heart: A Warrior Ethos For Modern Lawyers Reviewing Allan C. Hutchinson, Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics For An Adversarial Age, W. Bradley Wendel

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Prolific legal theorist Allan C. Hutchinson offers a provocative critical perspective on the relationship between law, the public interest, and lawyers’ practices. His recent book, Fighting Fair, seeks to ground legal ethics in the principles regulating one of the most universal and characteristic of all human activities—warfare. Readers of Candide, All Quiet on the Western Front, or Catch-22, or viewers of Gallipoli, Apocalypse Now, or Hacksaw Ridge may be excused for thinking that all we have learned about war is that it is senseless, brutal, dehumanizing, and in all ways an unmitigated ethical catastrophe. Hutchinson, however, is perfectly serious about …


The Modern Blood Feud: Thoughts On The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Christopher L. Blakesley Oct 2017

The Modern Blood Feud: Thoughts On The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Christopher L. Blakesley

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


The Higher Education Of Woman In The Southland Oct 2017

The Higher Education Of Woman In The Southland

Published Materials by Anna J. Cooper

No abstract provided.


One Phase Of The Race Distinction Oct 2017

One Phase Of The Race Distinction

Manuscripts for the Grimke Book

No abstract provided.


Nobility Of The Warrior: Etiquette, Empathy, And Emotion, Tao Tan Oct 2017

Nobility Of The Warrior: Etiquette, Empathy, And Emotion, Tao Tan

Agora

No abstract provided.


The Santa Clara, 2017-10-12, Santa Clara University Oct 2017

The Santa Clara, 2017-10-12, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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Waging Just Warfare During America’S Civil War: An Interview With Dr. D.H. Dilbeck, Ashley Whitehead Luskey Oct 2017

Waging Just Warfare During America’S Civil War: An Interview With Dr. D.H. Dilbeck, Ashley Whitehead Luskey

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Over the course of this year, we’ll be interviewing some of the speakers from the upcoming 2018 CWI conference about their talks. Today we are speaking with Dr. D.H. Dilbeck, an historian of 19th-century American legal and religious history. Dr. Dilbeck received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia. His first book, A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War (UNC Press, 2016), was a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. His most recent book, Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet is forthcoming from UNC Press in 2018. A former Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma …


Definition Of Jihad: Legitimate?, Ryan Mayr Oct 2017

Definition Of Jihad: Legitimate?, Ryan Mayr

Agora

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Forty Years Of Private Practice And Sustained Pro Bono Advocacy, Stephen H. Oleskey Oct 2017

Reflections On Forty Years Of Private Practice And Sustained Pro Bono Advocacy, Stephen H. Oleskey

Maine Law Review

I am going to address two topics. The first is the one Judge Coffin asked me to address in October 2009, when I was invited to give the 2010 Coffin Lecture: how to combine the private practice of law with an active pro bono practice. The second topic is the one Dean Peter Pitegoff and I agreed to add: a brief discussion of legal developments in national security law since 9/11. My pro bono involvement in Guantanamo Habeas litigation began in 2004 and led directly to my interest in national security law and to my recognition of how difficult it …


Editorial, Joseph Arnold Oct 2017

Editorial, Joseph Arnold

Exile

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Editorial, Gordon Garrett, Virginia Wallace Oct 2017

Editorial, Gordon Garrett, Virginia Wallace

Exile

No abstract provided.


A Reflection On Catholicism, Legalism And Nuclear War, Robert F. Drinan Oct 2017

A Reflection On Catholicism, Legalism And Nuclear War, Robert F. Drinan

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Nuclear Weapons And Crimes Against Humanity Under International Law, John Kuhn Bleimaier Oct 2017

Nuclear Weapons And Crimes Against Humanity Under International Law, John Kuhn Bleimaier

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


And Now A Response, John Kenower Oct 2017

And Now A Response, John Kenower

Exile

No abstract provided.


The Current Volume 28: Issue 8, Nova Southeastern University Oct 2017

The Current Volume 28: Issue 8, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.


A Typology Of Arguments About Drone Ethics, Mary Manjikian Dr. Oct 2017

A Typology Of Arguments About Drone Ethics, Mary Manjikian Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Many different actors oppose the use of unmanned autonomous weapons (UAV’s) from adversary states, to international governmental organizations to policymakers and academics. However, the basis for their opposition varies, as do the assumptions behind their arguments. This Letort Paper lays out distinctions between arguments about technology, arguments about policy, and arguments about strategy.


Obstacle Avoidance Approaches For Autonomous Navigation Of Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning, Robert Sutton Oct 2017

Obstacle Avoidance Approaches For Autonomous Navigation Of Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning, Robert Sutton

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


The Effectiveness Of U.S. Development Assistance In Fostering Sustainable Development In Sub-Saharan Africa, Deborah L. Munganga Oct 2017

The Effectiveness Of U.S. Development Assistance In Fostering Sustainable Development In Sub-Saharan Africa, Deborah L. Munganga

McNair Scholars Research Journal

The Sub-Saharan region of Africa is one of the most resource-rich continents in the world, but it lacks economic growth. One of the factors contributing to its low economic development is its historical legacy of colonization, authoritarian regimes, and interstate and intrastate conflicts (Ocheni & Nwankwo, 2012; Bayeh, 2015). As a consequence, this sub-region, along with South Asia, has one of the world’s lowest levels of per-capita income. The existing research on Sub-Saharan Africa indicates that little to no development occurs, due to how donor agencies implement aid programs. This paper examines whether U.S. development assistance has fostered sustainable growth …