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Who Could Possibly Be Against A Treaty For The Blind?, Aaron Scheinwald
Who Could Possibly Be Against A Treaty For The Blind?, Aaron Scheinwald
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
This Note presents the history of the problem of VIPs' restricted access to information, a legal-realist analysis of the reasons for and against a WIPO treaty for the blind, and the contours of a best-case solution.
Evaluating The Palestinians’ Claimed Right Of Return, Andrew Kent
Evaluating The Palestinians’ Claimed Right Of Return, Andrew Kent
Faculty Scholarship
This Article takes on a question at the heart of the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian dispute: did Israel violate international law during the conflict of 1947-49 either by expelling Palestinian civilians or by subsequently refusing to repatriate Palestinian refugees? Palestinians have claimed that Israel engaged in illegal ethnic cleansing, and that international law provides a "right of return" for the refugees displaced during what they call al-Nakbah (the catastrophe). Israel has disagreed, blaming Arab aggression and unilateral decisions by Arab inhabitants for the refugees' flight, and asserting that international law provides no right of the refugees to return to Israel. Each side …