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2011

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Human Rights Adjudication In Contemporary Democracies: Courts’ Specific Moral Insight As A Decisive Advantage Over Legislatures (A Modest And Partial Response To Jeremy Waldron’S Core Case Against Judicial Review), Francisco Verbic Oct 2011

Human Rights Adjudication In Contemporary Democracies: Courts’ Specific Moral Insight As A Decisive Advantage Over Legislatures (A Modest And Partial Response To Jeremy Waldron’S Core Case Against Judicial Review), Francisco Verbic

Francisco Verbic

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Education, Labor Rights, And Incentives: Contract Teacher Cases In The Indian Courts, Varun Gauri, Nick Robinson Jul 2011

Education, Labor Rights, And Incentives: Contract Teacher Cases In The Indian Courts, Varun Gauri, Nick Robinson

Varun Gauri

Since the liberalization of India\'s economy beginning in the early 1990\'s, the government has increasingly employed contract workers to perform various state functions, including in the education sector. Yet, little research has been done to examine how courts have reacted to this shift in government labor policy. This paper looks at all reported cases involving contract teachers in the Indian Supreme Court and four High Courts over the last thirty years. It finds that although almost never explicitly overturning precedent, the judiciary in India has increasingly become less sympathetic to contract teachers demands, particularly at the Supreme Court level. The …


Legal Outlier, Again? U.S. Felon Suffrage: Comparative And International Human Rights Perspectives, Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Apr 2011

Legal Outlier, Again? U.S. Felon Suffrage: Comparative And International Human Rights Perspectives, Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

The judiciousness of American felon suffrage policies has long been the subject of scholarly debate, not least due to the large number of affected Americans: an estimated 5.3 million citizens are ineligible to vote as a result of a criminal conviction. This article offers comparative law and international human rights perspectives and aims to make two main contributions to the American and global discourse. After an introduction in Part I, Part II offers comparative law perspectives on challenges to disenfranchisement legislation, juxtaposing U.S. case law against recent judgments rendered by courts in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and by the European …


Independencia E Imparcialidad En Sistemas De Justicia Militar: Estándares Internacionales Comparados, Pablo Contreras Jan 2011

Independencia E Imparcialidad En Sistemas De Justicia Militar: Estándares Internacionales Comparados, Pablo Contreras

Pablo Contreras

El texto analiza los estándares internacionales de derechos humanos aplicables a los sistemas de justicia militar, en materia de independencia e imparcialidad de los tribunales. La investigación describe, analiza y compara los comentarios y la jurisprudencia de organismos internacionales de derechos humanos. El estudio se enfoca en cuatro susbsistemas internacionales y regionales de protección de los derechos humanos: el Comité de Derechos Humanos del Pacto de Derechos Civiles y Políticos, la Comisión Africana de Derechos Humanos y de los Pueblos, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. A partir del análisis comparativo, se definen …