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Legal Research And Legal Education In Africa: The Challenge For Information Literacy, Vicki Lawal
Legal Research And Legal Education In Africa: The Challenge For Information Literacy, Vicki Lawal
Starr Workshop Papers (2007)
This paper analyses legal research within the context of legal education in Africa, it examines some of the challenges of electronic legal research in view of the influences of online legal electronic resources and Computer Assisted legal Research (CALR) and the importance of information literacy in addressing some of the issues raised especially with regards to undergraduate legal education.
Slides: Forests And Grasslands, Federico Cheever
Slides: Forests And Grasslands, Federico Cheever
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
Presenter: Professor Federico Cheever, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
30 slides
Diamonds On The Souls Of Her Shoes: The Kimberly Process And The Morality Exception To Wto Restrictions, Karen E. Woody
Diamonds On The Souls Of Her Shoes: The Kimberly Process And The Morality Exception To Wto Restrictions, Karen E. Woody
Scholarly Articles
This Article analyzes the events predicating the Kimberley Process and examines the validity of the Kimberley Process in relation to international trade obligations. Part I describes the background of conflict diamonds and their role in African wars. The section outlines the need for regulation in the diamond industry and examines how other attempted measures at curbing the illicit diamond trade have fallen short. Part II details the Kimberley Process and its guidelines. This section analyzes the relevant U.S. legislation passed in 2003, the Clean Diamond Trade Act. Part II also suggests that because the Kimberley Process ("KP") is predicated upon …
Illegal Peace? Power Sharing With Warlords In Africa, Jeremy I. Levitt
Illegal Peace? Power Sharing With Warlords In Africa, Jeremy I. Levitt
Journal Publications
This paper examines the legality of power-sharing in Africa with specific reference to the Accra and Lome accords, which brought about a fragile cessation of the conflicts in Liberian and Sierra Leone, respectively. It examines the future of international criminal law vis-a-vis power-sharing by prospectively examining gaps in state practice and rules that arguably permit the "crime of illegal peace" by insurrectionists, political elites, and moral guarantors. When warlords use violence to coerce democratically constituted governments to share power, does power-sharing simply become a euphemism for "guns for jobs"? Which legal rules, if any, govern peace agreements in internal conflicts? …