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Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte
Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
In settler colonial contexts, law and educational institutions operate as structures of oppression, extraction, erasure, disempowerment, and continuing violence against colonized peoples. Consequently, clinical legal advocacy often can reinforce coloniality—the logic that perpetuates structural violence against individuals and groups resisting colonization and struggling for survival as peoples. Critical legal theory, including Third World Approaches to International Law (“TWAIL”), has long exposed colonial laws and practices that entrench discriminatory, racialized power structures and prevent transformative international human rights advocacy. Understanding and responding to these critiques can assist in decolonizing international human rights clinical law teaching and practice but is insufficient in …
Bridging The Enforcement Gap? Evaluating The Inquiry Procedure Of The Cedaw Optional Protocol, Catherine O'Rourke
Bridging The Enforcement Gap? Evaluating The Inquiry Procedure Of The Cedaw Optional Protocol, Catherine O'Rourke
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Considerable optimism accompanied the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Optional Protocol. However, one of the Optional Protocol’s two enforcement measures, the inquiry procedure, appeared to languish for fourteen years and has, to date, resulted in only four inquiry reports. The article evaluates the inquiry procedure, finding largely unmet expectations in addressing CEDAW’s structural weaknesses, countering the privileging of civil and political rights, and redressing state noncompliance with CEDAW, but significant potential nonetheless. The findings of this Article vindicate the enduring salience of foundational feminist critiques of human rights. The Conclusion …
Why Does The Method Matter?, Lorena Fries, Veronica Matus
Why Does The Method Matter?, Lorena Fries, Veronica Matus
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Obligation Ignored: Why International Law Requires The United States To Provide Adequate Civil Legal Aid, What The United States Is Doing Instead, And How Legal Empowerment Can Help, Zachary H. Zarnow
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Birthing Barbarism: The Unconstitutionality Of Shackling Pregnant Prisoners , Claire Louise Griggs
Birthing Barbarism: The Unconstitutionality Of Shackling Pregnant Prisoners , Claire Louise Griggs
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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International Human Rights Dimensions Of Intimate Violence: Another Strand In The Dialectic Of Feminist Lawmaking, Rhonda Copelon
International Human Rights Dimensions Of Intimate Violence: Another Strand In The Dialectic Of Feminist Lawmaking, Rhonda Copelon
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Women In Iran: Obstacles To Human Rights And Possible Solutions, Alison E. Graves
Women In Iran: Obstacles To Human Rights And Possible Solutions, Alison E. Graves
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.