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Culture Change, Lan Cao
Children's Rights Are Human Rights- An Introductory Handbook For Students And Professionals, Claire Bedard
Children's Rights Are Human Rights- An Introductory Handbook For Students And Professionals, Claire Bedard
Center for the Human Rights of Children
This handbook is intended for students and professionals of all disciplines- either closely or remotely connected to serving the needs of children. The goal of this handbook is to advance the cause of children everywhere.
Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray
Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray
Faculty Scholarship
The doctrine of odious debts came into its full in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to deal with the financial injustices of colonialism and its stalking horse, despotism. The basic rule, as articulated by Alexander Sack in 1927, is that debts incurred by an illegitimate regime that neither benefit nor have the consent of the people of a territory are personal to the regime and are subject to unilateral recision by a successor government. While the traditional doctrine focused on the nature and circumstances of individual debts, it has been expanded in recent years, moving the focus from the …
Dark Ages Of Human Rights?, Linda A. Malone
Dark Ages Of Human Rights?, Linda A. Malone
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Beyond Disability Civil Rights, Michael Ashley Stein, Penelope J.S. Stein
Beyond Disability Civil Rights, Michael Ashley Stein, Penelope J.S. Stein
Faculty Publications
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Disability Human Rights, Michael Ashley Stein
Disability Human Rights, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
Responding to the absence of an international treaty expressly protecting people with disabilities, the United Nations General Assembly will soon adopt a disability-based human rights convention. This Article examines the theoretical implications of adding disability to the existing canon of human rights, both for individuals with disabilities and for other under-protected people. It develops a "disability human rights paradigm" by combining components of the social model of disability, the human right to development, and Martha Nussbaum's version of the capabilities approach, but filters them through a disability rights perspective to preserve that which provides for individual flourishing and modifying that …
A Quick Overview Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael Ashley Stein
A Quick Overview Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
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A Theory Of Expressive International Law, Alex Geisinger, Michael Ashley Stein
A Theory Of Expressive International Law, Alex Geisinger, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
Ever since Grotius first suggested that desire for esteem from the broader global community motivates States to comply with international law, identifying just how this desire effects compliance has proven illusive. The ability to harness the pull of international society is important to virtually all treaty formation and compliance. It is especially important in the area of human rights regimes where other compliance forces such as coercion, are rarely, if ever, used. Recent empirical evidence, however, suggests that human rights regimes are ineffective. Indeed, in many situations this evidence suggests that the human rights practices of States that ratify such …
Transphobia And The Relational Production Of Gender, Elaine Craig
Transphobia And The Relational Production Of Gender, Elaine Craig
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Knowing one's place in the social order, whether that place is one of relative privilege or not, serves two psychologically ameliorative functions. It relieves one from the “anxiety of [gender] identity interrogation” and it helps to inform one as to the socially agreed upon, acceptable conduct for interpersonal exchanges--the episteme of social interaction. This Paper will demonstrate that gender identity is produced through relational, contextually influenced, interpretative processes. Because gender is constructed in societies which strongly embrace static, binary conceptions of gender, and in which social, familial, occupational, and sexual *139 interactions are heavily influenced by gendered social scripts, gender …