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Children, Armed Conflict, And Genocide: Applying The Law Of Genocide To The Recruitment And Use Of Children In Armed Conflict, Jeffery R. Ray

Jeffery R Ray

This paper shows that the use of child soldiers in armed conflict has the potential to be considered as genocide. A brief background of genocide is presented prior to the analysis. Part I, of the analysis, will discuss three issues: First, the modern understanding of genocide and the substantive areas of law that govern it; Second, the definition of ‘child’ within the international arena as it relates to child soldering; Third, a discussion to determine if children can constitute a ‘group’ in the context of the law of genocide. Part II provides a discussion elaborating on Part I then analyzing …

A Methodological Proposal For A National Survey Of Data Protection In E-Government In Mexico, Teresa M. G. Da Cunha Lopes

Teresa M. G. Da Cunha Lopes

The present research paper is an attempt to study the aspects related to e-government and data protection in Mexico, and at the same time, in view of the lack of empirical data presents a methodological proposal for the urgent implementation of a national survey. We focus in the protection of personal data used by public administrators to provide public services.

Act 301 (14-1891) Amicus Reply Brief, Curtis J. Neeley Jr

Curtis J Neeley Jr

Reply covering every brief filed.

International Economic Law And The Right To Food, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Carmen G. Gonzalez

This chapter examines the historic and current policies and practices that have contributed to food insecurity in the global South. It analyzes the impact of international economic law on the patterns of trade and production that perpetuate food insecurity, and recommends concrete measures that the international community might take through law and regulation to promote the fundamental human right to food. Part I provides a short introduction to the right to food framework and its implications for international trade, investment, and finance. Part II places the current food crisis in historical perspective by discussing the trade and aid policies that …

Homage To Filártiga, Perry S. Bechky

Perry S. Bechky

The Supreme Court’s new decision in Kiobel severely restricted human rights litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). In doing so, the Court gravely injured the canonical human rights case of Filártiga. This essay celebrates Filártiga, demonstrating that it survives Kiobel in four key respects: its approach to the sources of international law, its conclusion that international law prohibits torture, its dynamic vision of the way the human rights revolution transformed international law, and its hope that courts can help make real a world without torture. The essay presents Filártiga as a living presence and a beacon for future development …

International Adjudication Of Land Disputes: For Development And Transnationalism, Perry S. Bechky

Perry S. Bechky

This short article offers two observations about international adjudication of land disputes. First, the article shows that such adjudication is intended to further development, but that this goal is served better, if counter-intuitively, by rejecting the so-called Salini contribution-to-development test in favor of case-by-case adjudication on the merits. Second, the article locates such adjudication within the modern trend toward transnationalism, a trend that unites international investment law with human rights law. In light of these observations, the article concludes that international adjudication of land disputes may contribute to such human values as development, human rights, and the rule of law.

Libertad De Expresión Y Censura En Internet, Germán M. Teruel Lozano

Germán M. Teruel Lozano

The object of this paper is, on one hand, to rethink the freedom of expression in the Digital Age as a «ius communicationis»: a right to communicate which includes the whole communicative process, both active and passive dimension and the rights to spread, seek, receive and access information; and, on the other hand, It would «translate» the guarantees of freedom of expression (in particular prohibition of a previous censorship) to the new means of control (both private and public ones) in Internet.

Battered And Betrayed: A Report Of Visit To Muzaffarnagar Camps, Saumya Uma, Hasina Khan

Dr. Saumya Uma

Foreword, The Future Of International Criminal Justice, Claudio M. Grossman

Claudio M. Grossman

Régimen De La Comunicación, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Presentación del libro “Régimen de la Comunicación”

Extiendo un afectuoso saludo a los apreciados autores de la presente Obra, así como a los representantes de la Corporación de Estudios y Publicaciones (CEP); a los distinguidos miembros de la mesa directiva; a las insignes autoridades oficiales y académicas que nos honran con su visita; y al querido público que tan gentilmente nos acompaña en este acto.

Nuevamente estamos aquí para entregar un estudio sistemático de las leyes ecuatorianas, hoy en concreto de las relacionadas con el mundo de la comunicación. Han pasado ya los años de ese inocente positivismo moderno que …

Implementing Human Rights In Closed Environments Through The United Nations Convention Against Torture, Claudio M. Grossman

Claudio M. Grossman

A Igualdade E As Suas Irmãs Valorativas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

A Igualdade não é uma categoria a isolar, muito menos a restringir, a um plácido, fluido e tantas vezes simplesmente formal “princípio da igualdade perante a lei”. A Igualdade é, sem dúvida, princípio, mas além da sua dimensão formal tem um relevo material e um sentido axiológico. A Igualdade é valor. Valor que é, encontra-se numa constelação que co-implica outros valores (juspolíticos su- periores), desde logo a Liberdade e a Fraternidade. São essas as irmãs valorativas da Igualdade, sem as quais sempre será apenas uma promessa não cumprida. A Liberdade, a Igualdade e a Fraternidade são assim três estrelas de …

The International Rule Of Law In A Human Rights Era, Evgenia Pavlovskaia

Evgenia Pavlovskaia

The Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ) has established itself as a significant and world-renowned program that promotes the role of judges working in the domain of international law and justice. Organized by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of Brandeis University, the BIIJ provides a venue for judges from international and regional courts to discuss important issues relating to the administration of justice across their varied jurisdictions.

In 2013, the BIIJ was organized, for the first time in its 12-year history, in partnership with outside academic bodies working in the same field. The institute was held …

Sexual And Reproductive Health Needs And Access To Health Services For Adolescents Under 18 Engaged In Selling Sex In Asia Pacific, Brendan M. Conner Esq.

Brendan M. Conner

El Derecho A La Vida En Una Sentencia Del Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional De Bolivia [The Right To Life In A Judgment By The Constitutional Court Of Bolivia], Ligia M. De Jesus, Nicolás Lafferriere, María Inés Franck

Ligia De Jesus Castaldi

The Breakthrough: Human Rights In The 1970s (Book Review), Richard J. Wilson

Richard J. Wilson

Restoration Of Historical Memory And Dignity For Victims Of The Armenian Genocide: A Human Rights Law Approach To Effective Reparations, Richard J. Wilson

Richard J. Wilson

Human Rights Violations By Peacekeeping Forces In Somalia.Pdf, Richard J. Wilson

Richard J. Wilson

Exploitation Creep And The Unmaking Of Human Trafficking Law, Janie A. Chuang

Janie A Chuang

El Ámbito De Aplicación De La Ley (Cap. 5) / Comentarios A La Da 1ª, A La Df 1ª Y A La Df 2ª (Cap. 24), Germán M. Teruel Lozano

Germán M. Teruel Lozano

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Corporate Social Responsibility In A Remedy-Seeking Society: A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on “What Can Law & Economics Teach Us About the Corporate Social Responsibility Debate?,” this Article applies the lessons of public choice theory to examine corporate social responsibility. The Article adopts a broad definition of corporate social responsibility activism to include both (1) those efforts that seek to convince corporations to voluntarily take into account corporate social responsibility in their own decision-making, and (2) the efforts to alter the legal landscape and expand legal obligations of corporations beyond traditional notions of harm and duty so as to force corporations to invest in interests …

Does Undrip Matter?: Indian Law In The United States And The International Right To Self-Determination, Kevin Crow

Kevin Crow

Article 4 Of The Echr And The Obligation Of Criminalizing Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour And Human Trafficking, Vladislava Stoyanova

Vladislava Stoyanova

This article addresses the interaction between international human rights law and national criminal law as exemplified and revealed in relation to the abuses of slavery, servitude, forced labour and human trafficking (THB). First, I point out the mismatch between the interpretative techniques of international human rights law and national criminal law. The reportedly low numbers of prosecutions and convictions for abuses against migrants has gathered increasing attention. As a reaction it has been suggested that the definitions of THB and of slavery, servitude and forced labour (where the latters have been specifically criminalized) have to be expansively construed. These suggestions …