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United States Detainees At Guantánamo Bay: The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Responds To A "Legal Black Hole" , Richard J. Wilson Jan 2003

United States Detainees At Guantánamo Bay: The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Responds To A "Legal Black Hole" , Richard J. Wilson

Human Rights Brief

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Glocalizing Law And Culture: Towards A Cross-Constitutive Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol Jan 2003

Glocalizing Law And Culture: Towards A Cross-Constitutive Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

UF Law Faculty Publications

This lecture addresses the relationship between law and culture in three general parts. The first part consists of a brief review of the theories addressing the relationship of law and culture, mainly the mirror theory. But I will suggest that there is more to the relationship of law and culture than one being an inert reflection of the other; hence my proposal for what I call, as a working concept, a cross-constitutive paradigm of law and culture. The second part reviews the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW''), a law that seeks to effect …