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Nigeria And Mali: The Case For Repatriation And Protection Of Cultural Heritage In Post-Colonial Africa, Elizabeth A. Klesmith
Nigeria And Mali: The Case For Repatriation And Protection Of Cultural Heritage In Post-Colonial Africa, Elizabeth A. Klesmith
Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law
Writing in early 2013, Elizabeth A. Klesmith explores the challenges of African nations in protecting their cultural heritage in the post-colonization era. She identifies two major challenges to the preservation of African cultural heritage: the multi-billion dollar global trade in illicit heritage and, in certain parts of Africa, the threat of destruction of cultural treasures during bouts of sectarian violence. Klesmith discusses these challenges utilizing case studies concerning the cultural treasures of Nigeria and Mali. In the case of Nigeria, the country is striving to reacquire artifacts looted from the Benin Kingdom in the late nineteenth century and recently purchased …
Ungoverned Spaces, Transnational Crime, And The Prohibition On Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction In International Law, Dan E. Stigall
Ungoverned Spaces, Transnational Crime, And The Prohibition On Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction In International Law, Dan E. Stigall
Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law
This Article explicates the international legal framework governing State action against transnational crime; it also explores the disparity in what international law permits military actors to do in situations of armed conflict versus what actions civilians may undertake in the course of extraterritorial law enforcement operations. This Article argues that the trend of militarization in the U.S. approach to transnational crime law is, in part, a function of this legal disparity and that this trend could be reversed a degree if international law recognized a greater degree of flexibility for certain limited categories of extraterritorial law enforcement actions by civilian …
Letter From The Editor, Adrienne M. De La Rosa
Letter From The Editor, Adrienne M. De La Rosa
Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law
A letter from the editor