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Finding A Place For Children: The Impact Of Cameroon’S Criminal Procedure Code On Children In Conflict With The Law,, Joshua Dankoff
Finding A Place For Children: The Impact Of Cameroon’S Criminal Procedure Code On Children In Conflict With The Law,, Joshua Dankoff
Joshua Dankoff
In the face of a number of complex challenges—including lack of resources, an often oppressive neoliberal international economic system, and low salaries—the Cameroonian government has taken important steps over the last 20 years to improve its justice sector generally, and specifically in relation to children in conflict with the law. Having ratified most of the leading international and regional legal instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Cameroonian government has shown an interest in bringing its police, adjudicatory, and prison justice sectors into line with international norms and practice. As an example of a mixed jurisdiction …
Advocating Duress And Infancy Exceptions To The Persecutor Bar To Asylum For Former Child-Soldiers, Joshua Dankoff
Advocating Duress And Infancy Exceptions To The Persecutor Bar To Asylum For Former Child-Soldiers, Joshua Dankoff
Joshua Dankoff
After briefly discussing asylum law, the persecutor bar to asylum, and the 2009 Supreme Court decision Negusie v. Holder, this paper argues that former child soldiers are a unique population of asylum seekers. The article considers the wide use of duress in domestic and international law, and briefly discusses the infancy defense. The article then argues that a lack of duress exception to the persecutor bar for former child soldiers negatively impacts child asylum seekers, and proposes that the Board of Immigration Appeals read in both a duress and infancy exception to the persecutor bar to asylum.