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The Inter-American System And The Protection Of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (Spanish)., Giovanna E. Gismondi

Giovanna E. Gismondi

The present article underscore the role of the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in regards to the protection of the rights of indigenous communities, including their right to lands, natural resources and a healthy environment. In this regard, the intervention of the human rights organs of the Organization of American States (OAS), has had a positive impact on the laws and policies of Latin American countries towards the protection of indigenous peoples' rights. The article discusses four cases that set the standards of the legal protection of indigenous communities within the Inter-American System for the protection …

گزارش مصور تجمع 18 آذر 1386 در دانشگاه تهران, Sajjad Khaksari

SAJJAD KHAKSARI

تجمع بزرگ دانشجويان، دانشگاه آخرين سنگر آزادي، به دعوت دفتر تحكيم وحدت در دانشگاه تهران آغاز شد. جمعيتي بالغ بر 300 نفر در لحظات ابتدايي اين تجمع و تريبون آزاد در آن حضور يافته اند

استیضاح در دانشگاه, Sajjad Khaksari

SAJJAD KHAKSARI

استیضاح در دانشگاه؛ ۱۶ آذر ۱۳۸۶ بود که بسیجی های دانشگاه معاون فرهنگی احمدی نژاد رو دعوت کرده بودند. هی فکر می کردم آخه از این مزدور من چی می تونم بپرسم وقتی که ماهی از سر گندیده گردیده و فتنه از عمامه آقا خامنه ای منتشر! پس به جای رفتن به جلسه کذایی سوالاتم را از ارباب اون آقا نوشتم و منتشر شد زیر زمینی! تا مدت ها دست به دست بین دانشجوها و دوستان می گشت، هر چند که چندمین وبلاگ ام رو برای چندمین بار فیلتر کردند

Princípios-Tópicos De Hermenêutica Constitucional, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Houve tempo em que a Constituição servia para poisar ou charuto ou tirar um argumento político, como ironicamente afirmaria o grande escritor oitocentista Eça de Queiroz. Hoje a Constituição é a norma das normas. Daí há consequências hermenêuticas. Ao contrário das teorias que importam interpretação tradicional e, por vezes, em grande medida ultrapassada, para o Direito Constitucional, a tendência actual é a inversa: dada a supremacia da Constituição, deve ser a metodologia constitucional a exportar hermenêutica para o todo do Direito. Para isso, começamos neste artigo com grandes princípios de hermenêutica intra-constitucional. Depois se passará à exportação.

Should Or Must? Nature Of The Obligation Of States To Use Trade Instruments For The Advancement Of Environmental, Labor, And Other Human Rights, Stephen Powell

Stephen Joseph Powell

States have been careful to couch their human rights commitments in terms that avoid binding and measurable actions to ensure the human rights either of their own citizens or those in other countries. Despite the promise of a dozen U.N. treaties, states continue to equivocate as to measures necessary to meet critical individual needs. This essay argues that, nonetheless, the question whether economically powerful states may be held to human rights observance is not solely moral in nature. Instead, through a combination of treaties, custom, and historical facts, the human rights obligation of developed states has taken on penumbral legal …

Fallibility + Unchecked Power = Trouble, C. Peter Erlinder

C. Peter Erlinder

No abstract provided.

Whistleblowing And The Employee’S Obligations Under The Contract Of Employment: A Critique Of Nigeria’S Position, Ibrahim Sule

Ibrahim Sule

Whistle-blowing as an emerging phenomenon may be defined as “passing on information from a conviction that it should be passed on despite (not because of) the embarrassment it could cause to those implicated” . It has recently been broadly defined as “a culture that encourages the challenge of inappropriate behavior at all levels” , ranging from financial scandal, corruption or mismanagement to health and safety issues in the workplace. Whistleblowing is both “a risky business” and a helpful practice. It is a risky business because of the dangers, the detriment and threats awaiting an employee who reveals wrongdoing in the …

Fitness For Trial In The District Court: The Legal Perspective, Darius Whelan

Darius Whelan

Reparations: A Remedies Law Perspective, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

This article provides a general overview of reparations discourse in the United States and offers suggestions concerning how advocates of reparations might frame their claims. The author discusses how remedies law might be a useful means of redress for litigants and examines some of the political and legal barriers to reparations in the United States. The barriers include the failure of opponents to treat remedies for gross human rights or civil rights deprivations as a public good, rather than as a series of private transactions that benefit or burden individuals. The author ultimately sets the litigation model aside as providing …

La Cesión De Derechos En El Código Civil Peruano, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

La Cesión de Derechos en el Código Civil Peruano

Electronic Government And Digital Inclusion: Examples From India, Subhajit Basu

Subhajit Basu

This presentation has two parts: In the first part I look into Development, effect of technology on development, obviously technology provides opportunity to have choices but Can Technology (here ICT) influence development? Digital inclusion is a concept about the disparities in terms of citizens’ participation in the Information Society. This participation may be conceptualised in the first instance as ICT access, levels of use and use patterns. On one hand we have technology which promises of New Dawn for the developing countries, on the other hand only access to technology will not provide development for poor millions of a developing …

Algunos Apuntes En Torno A La Prescripción Extintiva Y La Caducidad, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

No abstract provided.

Interview With Heitam Maleh, Marcel Stuessi

Marcel Stüssi

This is a previously unpublished interview on democracy and religious liberty in Syria.

De Quelques Paradoxes De Droit Du Travail À La LumièRe De La Directive 2002/14/Ce, Philippe Reyniers, Pierre-Paul Van Gehuchten

Philippe Reyniers

The article concerns the normative interactions between the Framework Directive on Information and Consultation and Belgian national law. It illustrates a number of paradoxes (or contradictory trends) in the development of workers' information and consultation.

On The Language Of Social Rights And New Modes Of Governance, Philippe Reyniers

Philippe Reyniers

The paper addresses the danger of two abstractions. The first is the indeterminacy of the language of fundamental social rights. The second is the abstract description of social policies within the Open Methods of Coordination. I then evaluate the possibilities of founding Social Europe on the real experience of injustice.

Categories Of Migration, Kathryn Jastram

Kate Jastram

No abstract provided.

La Vidéosurveillance Sous L'Angle De La Proportionnalité : Premières Réflexions Au Sujet De La Loi Réglant L'Installation Et L'Utilisation De Caméras De Surveillance, Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

Les travaux parlementaires relatifs à la vidéosurveillance ont démarré en 2006 suite au constat selon lequel « l'utilisation de caméras de sécurité dans le domaine public et dans les lieux ouverts au public s'est fortement répandue ces dernières années » . Vu la prolifération de caméras de surveillance, la question s’est logiquement posée de savoir si le cadre légal applicable à celles-ci était satisfaisant pour garantir la vie privée des citoyens.

Dans ce contexte, le 31 mai 2006, quelques sénateurs ont pris l’initiative de soumettre une proposition de loi relative à l'installation et l'utilisation de caméras de surveillance, laquelle a …

Using Internet 'Borders' To Coerce Or Punish, Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe

Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe

The prevailing ideology of the 1990’s reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the inadequacy and negative humanitarian consequences of broad multilateral economic sanctions.3 This in turn provoked a search on the part of NGO’s, states, UN agencies and academic institutions for an alternative sanctions approach that would remove the significant burden traditional economic sanctions placed on vulnerable segments of society while accomplishing the objectives for which they were imposed. The result of these cooperative efforts - the conceptualization and implementation of “smart” sanctions over the next decade - reformed the multilateral sanctions regime in fundamental ways. The agencies and procedures collectively instituted …

Corégulation Et Responsabilité Sociale Des Entreprises, Gregory Lewkowicz, Ludovic Hennebel

Gregory Lewkowicz

This paper analyses the evolution of corporate social responsibility from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. After having described the framework of a theory of coregulation, the authors scrutinize the main regulatory instruments used in the context of corporate social responsibility. They demonstrate that the evolution of corporate social responsaibility delineates a new regulatory logic peculiar to a globalizing legal world. The paper concludes stating that this logic could be a paradigm for the study of an emerging global law.

What Is Distinctive About Terrorism And Anti-Terrorism Law?, Matthew S. R. Palmer

The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer

Criminal offending and terrorist offending are similar in quality – the acts which constitute such offending are similar, and should be subject to similar levels of protection of civil and political rights. This is how a democracy should respond to domestic terror threats. To the extent that we are particularly concerned about the motivation of terrorists in challenging the very maintenance of public order by a state, we should reflect that concern in the penalties we impose on such proven offending, not in giving in to the temptation of lower burdens of proof of the existence of the offending or …

A People Betrayed-The Darfur Crisis And International Law: Rethinking Westphalian Sovereignty In The 21st Century, Jackson N. Maogoto, Kithure Kindiki

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

This Article uses the Darfur Crisis in Sudan as a case study. It argues that rather than eliminating sovereignty as a political ideology, a more productive enterprise would be to refocus the discourse away from the traditional structural understanding of the term, which only serves to accentuate the level of discrepancy between the theological and the political definitions of the term and which ultimately leaves the false impression that absolute sovereignty is somehow realizable in the international political sphere. This refocus would constitute a shift toward a functional conception of sovereignty, wherein the purpose that State sovereignty would serve in …

The Final Frontier: The Laws Of Armed Conflict And Space Warfare, Jackson N. Maogoto, Steven Freeland

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

This article focuses on the application of the current laws of war to the emerging phenomenon of space weaponization and the increasing likelihood in the next few decades of space becoming a battleground. This predicament requires new ways of thinking and legal regulation, considering that the existing principles of the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are primarily focused on air, land and terrestrial warfare. This article addresses the special problems arising from applying the LOAC to space warfare. It will also analyze the significant problems posed by space assets dedicated to uses of both a civilian and military nature – …

Reform Of The Reform: The European Court Of Human Right’S Endless Quest For Efficient Justice, Nikolas Kyriakou

Nikolas Kyriakou

This article addresses the changes to be introduced in the edifice of the European Convention on Human Rights through the 14th Protocol. Particular attention will be paid on the impact of the said amendments on cases relating to property claims initiated by Cypriot nationals against Turkey. In essence, along with a bird’s eye view to institutional issues and restructuring, the author will present the two latest reforms in the judicial system of the Court. Protocols Nos. 11 and 14 are oriented in rendering the Strasbourg Court more efficient and delve upon its quasi-constitutional nature in the European judicial setting. The …

Law Enforcement Responses To Trafficking In Persons: Challenges And Emerging Good Practice, Fiona M. David Ms

Fiona David

In recent years, the Australian Government has committed significant resources to combating trafficking in persons. Within this larger anti-trafficking effort, the community sector, law enforcement, prosecutors, health professionals and members of the community all have an important role to play. As each sector comes to terms with the reality of trafficking in Australia, it is important that emerging challenges and possible solutions are identified. This paper focuses on the challenges that may confront law enforcement officials in any country in their efforts to detect trafficking, identify victims, investigate offences and contribute to the successful prosecution of offenders. Drawing on international …

Science Or Security: The Future Of The Free Flow Of Scientific Information In The Age Of Terror, Geoff Holland

Geoff Holland

Politically or ideologically motivated speech has been the primary focus of much of the recent political, legal, and academic debate on restrictions on speech imposed as a reaction to perceived threats to national and international security. However, restrictions imposed on informing speech as a response to the threat of terrorism raise equally serious concerns. The development of the body of knowledge relies on the free flow of information, including persuasive speech. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks in the US, the issue of censorship of scientific information has been subject of debate in both …

The Insecurity Of Trafficking In International Law, Gregor Noll

Gregor Noll

The present chapter inquires into to the definition of trafficking in the 2000 Trafficking Protocol. The concept of trafficking seems to offer a self-evident point of departure to broach inequality and migration in the international domain. It emphasises the inequality between trafficker and the trafficked person, and States task themselves to side with the latter - and weaker - party in that relationship. Other dimensions of inequality, as that between migrants and States, are removed from the limelight of trafficking language. Trafficking of human beings is distinct from human smuggling: while trafficking is about non-consensual and exploitative relations between the …

Tribal, State, And Federal Cooperation To Achieve Good Governance, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Jurisdictional uncertainty affects tribal sovereignty and public safety. Management of natural resources remains one of the few realms of authority over which tribes have retained control. Ancient wild rice harvesting by the Chippewa provides a context in which to consider a tribes ability to set water standards, as does Pueblo ceremonial use of the Rio Grande River. Cooperative tribal, state, federal, and international responses to the Methamphetamine crisis can address both environmental and human health. This study examines the prospect for integrated protection of health and habitat based upon comity and cooperation. It examines the parameters of homeland security and …

Multilateral Climate Change Mitigation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

A long-term framework to address climate change is within political reach. This article examines how greenhouse gas mitigation can occur across economic and political fault lines. Climate is a public good requiring the development of an energy strategy based upon international cooperation, energy efficiency, and sustainable technological development.

Rethinking The Procreative Right, Carter Dillard

Carter Dillard

Few principles are as universally accepted in legal scholarship today, but based on such scant support, as the fundamental nature and broad scope of the right to procreate. What is perceived as a vague but nonetheless justified legal and moral interest to procreate freely without regard to others is, upon closer examination, based on little more than misconstrued or inapposite case precedent and blurry statements in non-binding sources of international law. By relying on this authority, conflating procreation with conceptually distinguishable behaviors, presuming its intrinsic value, and ignoring competing rights and duties, lawyers have largely overlooked procreation and its legal …

Human Rights And The Global Economy : The Promises And Failures Of Globalization, Hope Lewis

Hope Lewis

No abstract provided.