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Accountability Of State And Non-State Actors For Human Rights Abuses In The 'War On Terror', Laura T. Dickinson
Accountability Of State And Non-State Actors For Human Rights Abuses In The 'War On Terror', Laura T. Dickinson
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The decisions regarding detainees in the so-called "war on terror" - Hamdi, Padilla, and Rasul - leave a number of questions unresolved. This essay focuses on one question in particular: What happens when terrorists are detained not by U.S. authorities, but by private contractors hired by U.S. authorities? Domestically and internationally, we are seeing an increasing turn to private contractors performing what we might think of as core governmental functions. Accordingly, it is vital to consider to what extent private actors involved in the treatment of detainees in the war on terror can be held accountable for their actions. Although …
Encyclopedia Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity, Dinah L. Shelton
Encyclopedia Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity, Dinah L. Shelton
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This three-volume encyclopedia contains information and photographs about historical and recent instances of genocide and crimes against humanity. The introduction provides a brief history of recognition and definitions of genocide and related war crimes. The volumes focus on the political leaders in charge of the genocides and war crimes in addition to other facts about the crimes themselves.
The Labor Dimension Of The Emerging Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Steve Charnovitz
The Labor Dimension Of The Emerging Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Steve Charnovitz
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This study explores a potential labor dimension for the FTAA. The study is divided into four parts: Part 1 provides context by reviewing the history of Inter-American economic cooperation, especially on labor and trade. Part 2 examines how labor has been addressed in the major free trade agreements of the Americas. Part 3 looks at the normative basis for international labor cooperation. Part 4 makes specific recommendations for addressing labor issues in the FTAA. The ideas in Part 4 seek to stimulate practical, concerted action to address labor and employment problems of regional economic integration. My recommendations for the FTAA …
Conflict Of Laws, Globalization, And Cosmopolitan Pluralism, Paul Schiff Berman
Conflict Of Laws, Globalization, And Cosmopolitan Pluralism, Paul Schiff Berman
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This essay is a contribution to a symposium at the January 2005 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws. More than ten years ago, German theorist Gunther Teubner called for the creation of an "intersystemic conflicts law," derived not just from collisions between the distinct nation-states of private international law, but from what he described as "conflicts between autonomous social subsystems." Since then, the web of intersystemic lawmaking Teubner described has only grown more complex. The collision of these multiple legal and quasi-legal normative systems requires, as Teubner suggested, a broader approach to …