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Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation Of International Norms, Jelena Subotić
Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation Of International Norms, Jelena Subotić
Human Rights & Human Welfare
This paper explores the domestic politics of international norm diffusion, using the global transmission of transitional justice norms as the empirical context of the research. Applying sociological institutionalism as the principal theoretical framework, I argue that the motivation of states to adopt international models of transitional justice has changed over time. The transitional justice norm - that posits that war crimes and massive human rights abuses must be dealt with in a proper legal setting and not through “victors’ justice” or impunity - was institutionalized in large part as the result of a strong domestic demand for transitional justice in …
Looking Back Without Anger: Reflections On The Boston School Crisis, Robert Wood
Looking Back Without Anger: Reflections On The Boston School Crisis, Robert Wood
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is taken from the unpublished autobiography of Robert Wood who served as Superintendent of Boston Public Schools from 1978 to 1980 during the difficult period when U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity was overseeing court ordered desegregation of schools. After leaving the University of Massachusetts in January 1978, Robert Wood spent six months at the Harvard Graduate School of Education working on a book and considering a possible run for the United States Senate. Suggestion as to his next assignment, however, came from an unexpected source, as he describes below.
Judicial Confirmation Wars: Ideology And The Battle For The Federal Courts, Sheldon Goldman
Judicial Confirmation Wars: Ideology And The Battle For The Federal Courts, Sheldon Goldman
University of Richmond Law Review
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Judicial Selection As . . . Talk Radio, Michael J. Gerhardt
Judicial Selection As . . . Talk Radio, Michael J. Gerhardt
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Standards Of The Supreme Court, John Cornyn
Standards Of The Supreme Court, John Cornyn
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Trust, Altruism, And Reciprocity, George W. Dent Jr.
Race, Trust, Altruism, And Reciprocity, George W. Dent Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
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Neotrusteeship In Iraq, Tim Melvin
Neotrusteeship In Iraq, Tim Melvin
Human Rights & Human Welfare
This section deals with literature that examines the role and effectiveness of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in administering Iraq from 2003 till 2004. Foreign rule plays an important role in developing failed state’s infrastructure and institutions. By examining critical elements of the CPA’s administration, this section focuses on the overall success and failures of the CPA administrative capacity, and what this means for the future of Iraq’s new government. Since the cessation of the CPA, the Iraqi government has had its ups and downs and is still heavily reliant on the American presence. But some positive elements have been …