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Should Citizens Be Democratically Represented In The 21st Century International System?, Andrew Strauss Jan 2010

Should Citizens Be Democratically Represented In The 21st Century International System?, Andrew Strauss

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Democracy is increasingly the sine quo non of legitimate governance at the local, provincial and national levels.


Classification Of Participants In Suicide Attacks And The Implications Of This Classification On The Severity Of The Sentence: The Israeli Experience In The Military Courts In Judea And Samaria As A Model To Other Nations, Amit Preiss, Chagai D. Vinizky Jan 2010

Classification Of Participants In Suicide Attacks And The Implications Of This Classification On The Severity Of The Sentence: The Israeli Experience In The Military Courts In Judea And Samaria As A Model To Other Nations, Amit Preiss, Chagai D. Vinizky

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comparative Perspectives On Specialized Trials For Terrorism, Sudha Setty Jan 2010

Comparative Perspectives On Specialized Trials For Terrorism, Sudha Setty

Faculty Scholarship

On the campaign trail in 2008, presidential candidate and then-Senator Barack Obama promised to restore America’s place in the world by breaking with many of the national security policies put into effect by President George W. Bush. In January 2009, President Obama made numerous changes to United States foreign policy, including signing an executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and announcing that the United States would not engage in interrogation techniques that constitute torture. In some respects, however, Obama has followed the example of President Bush - for example, in his resuscitation of a specialized military …


The U.N. Security Council Ad Hoc Rwanda Tribunal: International Justice, Or Judicially-Constructed “Victor’S Impunity”?, C. Peter Erlinder Dec 2009

The U.N. Security Council Ad Hoc Rwanda Tribunal: International Justice, Or Judicially-Constructed “Victor’S Impunity”?, C. Peter Erlinder

C. Peter Erlinder

ABSTRACT The U.N. Security Council Ad Hoc Rwanda Tribunal: International Justice, or Juridically-Constructed “Victor’s Impunity”? Prof. Peter Erlinder [1] ________________________ “…if the Japanese had won the war, those of us who planned the fire-bombing of Tokyo would have been the war criminals….” [2] Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of State “…and so it goes…” [3] Billy Pilgrim (alter ego of an American prisoner of war, held in the cellar of a Dresden abattoir, who survived firebombing by his own troops, author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) Introduction Unlike the postWW- II Tribunals, the U.N. Security Council tribunals for the former Yugoslavia [10] …