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That Someone Guilty Be Punished: The Impact Of The Icty In Bosnia, Diane Orentlicher Jul 2001

That Someone Guilty Be Punished: The Impact Of The Icty In Bosnia, Diane Orentlicher

Reports

In That Someone Guilty Be Punished, Diane F. Orentlicher, professor of law at American University, looks at the effects and effectiveness of the ICTY, including lessons to improve future efforts to provide justice for survivors of atrocious crimes. Perhaps most importantly, Orentlicher examines the impact of the tribunal through the words and experiences of those in whose name it was established: the victims and survivors. Their expectations, hopes, and disappointments are chronicled alongside the tribunal’s achievements and limitations. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews—and featuring the voices and perceptions of dozens of Bosnian interlocutors—That Someone Guilty Be Punished provides …


The Evolving Concept Of Universal Jurisdiction (Symposium), Bartram Brown Dec 2000

The Evolving Concept Of Universal Jurisdiction (Symposium), Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher Jan 2000

Report On The Situation Of Roma And Sinti In The Osce Area, Diane Orentlicher

Reports

A report on the situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area with regard to discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation.The Report on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area contains detailed information on discrimination and racial violence, education, living conditions and political participation. It also includes recommendations on these issues.Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe available at https://www.osce.org/hcnm/32350


Rethinking Genocidal Intent: The Case For A Knowledge-Based Interpretation, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt Jan 1999

Rethinking Genocidal Intent: The Case For A Knowledge-Based Interpretation, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

From its initial codification in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide to its most recent inclusion in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the international crime of genocide has been defined as involving an "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such." The predominant interpetation of this language views genocide as a crime of "specific" or "special" intent, in which the perpetrator deliberately seeks the whole or partial destruction of a protected group. This Note pursues an alternate approach. Relying on both the history of …


U.S. Objections To The Statute Of The International Criminal Court: A Brief Response, Bartram Brown Dec 1998

U.S. Objections To The Statute Of The International Criminal Court: A Brief Response, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Primacy Or Complementarity: Reconciling The Jurisdiction Of National Courts And International Criminal Tribunals, Bartram Brown Dec 1997

Primacy Or Complementarity: Reconciling The Jurisdiction Of National Courts And International Criminal Tribunals, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown Dec 1997

Nationality And Internationality In International Humanitarian Law, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Beyond Bosnia And In Re Kasinga: A Feminist Perspective On Recent Developments In Protecting Women From Sexual Violence, Linda A. Malone Oct 1996

Beyond Bosnia And In Re Kasinga: A Feminist Perspective On Recent Developments In Protecting Women From Sexual Violence, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

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No Justice, No Peace: Accountability For Rape And Gender-Based Violence In The Former Yugoslavia, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1995

No Justice, No Peace: Accountability For Rape And Gender-Based Violence In The Former Yugoslavia, Diane Orentlicher

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

The Women in the Law Project of the International Human Rights Law Group (Law Group) sponsored a delegation to the former Yugoslavia from February 14 to 22, 1993. The delegation, which was also endorsed by the Bar Association of San Francisco, had two principal objectives. First, the delegation provided training in human rights fact-finding methodology to local organizations documenting rape and other violations of international law committed in the context of the armed conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosnia) and in Croatia. This part of the delegation's activities, undertaken in consultation with the United Nations Commission of Experts,' sought to enhance the …


Addressing Gross Human Rights Abuses: Punishment And Victim Compensation, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1994

Addressing Gross Human Rights Abuses: Punishment And Victim Compensation, Diane Orentlicher

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.


The Kahan Report, Ariel Sharon And The Sabra-Shatilla Massacres In Lebanon: Responsibility Under International Law For Massacres Of Civilian Populations, Linda A. Malone Jan 1985

The Kahan Report, Ariel Sharon And The Sabra-Shatilla Massacres In Lebanon: Responsibility Under International Law For Massacres Of Civilian Populations, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Human Rights In The Middle East, Linda A. Malone Jan 1984

Human Rights In The Middle East, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Torture As A Violation Of International Law Providing Federal Jurisdiction: Filartiga V. Pena Irala And The Alien Tort Statute, Neil J. Conway Dec 1982

Torture As A Violation Of International Law Providing Federal Jurisdiction: Filartiga V. Pena Irala And The Alien Tort Statute, Neil J. Conway

Antioch Law Journal

In Filartiga v. Pefia-IralaI the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts over an action between foreign nationals for the wrongful death by torture of a seventeen year old boy in Paraguay. Reversing the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the Second Circuit held that deliberate torture committed by a foreign police official violates international law, and that an action may therefore be brought in district court under 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (The Alien Tort Statute).2 The Alien Tort Statute, rarely invoked since its …


Table Of Abbreviations, Articles, Books, And Documents, Howard S. Levie Jan 1978

Table Of Abbreviations, Articles, Books, And Documents, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Chapter I: Submarine Warfare And International Law, W. T. Mallison Jr Aug 1968

Chapter I: Submarine Warfare And International Law, W. T. Mallison Jr

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.