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Information Intervention: Bosnia, The Dayton Accords, And The Seizure Of Broadcasting Transmitters, Monroe E. Price

Articles

The article examines the international community's use of media intervention in Bosnia following the Dayton Peace Accords, highlighting the establishment of mechanisms to regulate and influence media to prevent ethnic conflict. It explores the legal justifications and challenges surrounding such interventions, emphasizing the role of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the OSCE in promoting a pluralistic media environment. The analysis underscores the tension between international intervention and national sovereignty, raising important questions about the legal framework governing such actions.

The Rise Or The Fall Of International Law?, Edith Brown Weiss

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This Article argues that traditional international law is healthy in the sense that there are more international agreements than ever, and States continue to serve important roles in the international system. It is falling, however, as the sole focus of international legal efforts. It is necessary to redefine international law to include actors other than States among those who make international norms and who implement and comply with them, and to include legal instruments that may not be formally binding. These developments raise three important issues: the need for the new actors to be accountable and for the new norms …

Women And Globalization: The Failure And Postmodern Possibilities Of International Law, Barbara Stark

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article examines the role of international law, particularly human rights law, as it relates to the process of globalization and its effects on women. Initially, the Article sets the stage by describing the course of globalization and the dramatic impact it has had on the world economy. The Author next examines the multiple and contradictory consequences of globalization for women.

The Article approaches this analysis from two perspectives. First, from a 'classic perspective," the Author contends that international law is the only legal system with the potential to regulate the principal agents of globalization--multinational corporations, banks and investment firms, …

Who Asked You?: The Appropriateness Of U.S. Leadership In Promoting Religious Freedom Worldwide, Nichol J. Starr

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Government endorsed and government imposed religious persecution is a growing phenomenon worldwide. From Central America to the Far East, people are arrested, tortured, and even killed for having and expressing their faith, despite the existence of universal covenants expressing acceptance of religious differences as among the most basic of human rights. Seeing the apparent futility of U.N. and other international efforts to curb such persecution, the U.S. Congress in 1998 passed the International Religious Freedom Act. Faith-based religious persecution--and the United States' role in combating it--first took center stage in American politics during the IRFA's passage, and most recently has …

Reconciling Amnesties With Universal Jurisdiction, Juan E. Mendez, Garth Meintjes

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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The Inter-American Human Rights Systems: Activities During 1999 Through October 2000, Richard J. Wilson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Their Promises Of Paradise: Will Olmstead V. L.C. Resuscitate The Constitutional Least Restrictive Alternative Principle In Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

This article argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999), finding a qualified right to community treatment and services for certain institutionalized persons under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and endorsing an "integration mandate," forces us to reconsider the role of the "least restrictive alternative" in institutional mental disability law, and may serve to resuscitate and revitalize the constitutional foundations of that principle in this area of the law. In this context, Olmstead has the capacity to be the Supreme Court's most therapeutic mental disability law decision since that Court decided, in …

A Grand Exercise In Forgiveness, Or Justice Held Hostage To Truth? South Africa’S Truth And Reconciliation Commission, Penelope Andrews

Articles & Chapters

An evaluation of the success or otherwise of the TRC may seem premature, but there have been some interesting reflections thus far. One such work is David Dyzenhaus’ book, Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order. The book is a narrative and critique of the legal hearings which took place over three days at the TRC. This is a review of the Dyzenhaus book.

Personal Law And Human Rights In India And Israel, Jayanth K. Krishnan, Marc Galanter

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Indeterminate Claims: New Challenges To Self-Determination Doctrine In Yugoslavia, Timothy W. Waters

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Serbia has two autonomous provinces, with nearly identical constitutional and political claims: heavily Albanian Kosovo and ethnically diverse but Serb-majority Vojvodina. One is headed towards some form of internationally recognized independence; the other almost certainly is not, even though calls for its autonomy have been mounting. What makes the difference?

This article examines what the reasons for these different outcomes show about the changing content of self-determination in an environment of persistent ethnic claims. The defining characteristic of self-determination today is its indeterminacy, which allows policymakers to pursue a broader range of policies than was possible in the era of …

East Timor: Will There Be Justice? , Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

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Counterpoint: Plan Colombia And Human Rights , Luis Alberto Moreno

Human Rights Brief

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A Global Court? U.S. Objections To The International Criminal Court And Obstacles To Ratification, Teresa Young Reeves

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System , Terri J. Harris

Human Rights Brief

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Human Rights Violations Against Muslims In The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Of Western China, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

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Book Review, Anne Theodore Briggs, Matthew R. Briggs

Human Rights Brief

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News From The International Criminal Tribunals , Cecile E.M. Meijer, Amardeep Singh

Human Rights Brief

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Defending Humanity, Peter Cicchino

Human Rights Brief

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The Convention On The Rights Of The Child After Ten Years: Success Or Failure?, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

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Economic And Social Rights Come Of Age: United States Held To Account In Iachr, Peter Weiss

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System, Cathleen Caron

Human Rights Brief

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The Impact Of Mozambiques Land Tenure Policy On Refugees And Internally Displaced Persons, Bina Hanchinamani

Human Rights Brief

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Detention Of Asylum-Seekers In The United States, Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Watch, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Focus: Extending Asylum Eligibility To Include Gender-Related Persecution, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

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Women In Nepal: Human Rights In Theory, Human Rights In Practice, Barbara Cochrane Alexander

Human Rights Brief

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The Case For United States Reparations To African Americans, Adrienne D. Davis

Human Rights Brief

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European Court Of Human Rights Overturns British Ban On Gays In Military, Richard Kamm

Human Rights Brief

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The War Of Attrition In Chiapas, Sarah C. Aird

Human Rights Brief

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Refugee Women: Failing To Implement Solutions, Jennifer P. Harris

Human Rights Brief

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