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Introduction, Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter Sep 2010

Introduction, Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter

Contributions to Books

This is the introduction to an edited volume of papers on International Financial Institutions and International Law. The introduction provides an explanation of the editors motivation for undertaking this book project and an overview of the chapters in the book.


Conclusion: The Future Of International Law And International Financial Institutions, Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter Sep 2010

Conclusion: The Future Of International Law And International Financial Institutions, Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter

Contributions to Books

This is the conclusion to the edited volume, International Financial Institutions and International Law. After a brief overview of the key points made in the volume, the authors offer some observations on the role that international law plays and should play in the functioning of international financial institutions and some suggestions for future research on the topic.


Rhetoric To Reality: Citizenship Delays And U.S. International Obligations In The Post-9/11 Landscape, Clifford Ashcroft-Smith Mar 2010

Rhetoric To Reality: Citizenship Delays And U.S. International Obligations In The Post-9/11 Landscape, Clifford Ashcroft-Smith

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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A Migrants' Bill Of Rights—Between Restatement And Manifesto, Gerald Neuman Jan 2010

A Migrants' Bill Of Rights—Between Restatement And Manifesto, Gerald Neuman

International Migrants Bill of Rights Symposium

These comments first provide a general perspective on the nature of the proposed International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR) and then offer some specific observations on the current draft, in particular its provisions on the subject of equality or nondiscrimination, including but not limited to Article 2.


Sources, Christine Chinkin Jan 2010

Sources, Christine Chinkin

Book Chapters

This chapter outlines the sources of international human rights law that are listed in Article 38(1) Statute of the International Court of Justice: treaties, custom, general principles of law, and, as subsidiary sources, judicial decisions and the writings of jurists. The chapter also considers how so-called 'soft law' instruments such as resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the work of human rights expert bodies may also be regarded as sources of human rights law.


Paradigm Shifts In International Justice And The Duty To Protect; In Search Of An Action Principle, Patrick J. Glen Jan 2010

Paradigm Shifts In International Justice And The Duty To Protect; In Search Of An Action Principle, Patrick J. Glen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article places the emerging “responsibility to protect” within the historical development of international human rights and criminal law, while also attempting to more fully theorize the responsibility to ensure that it can be a basis for action in the face of a state’s commission of atrocities against its citizens. The main point of departure concerns the issue of “right authority” at that point in time when a coercive intervention is justified. Rather than rely solely on the Security Council in these situations, this article contends that unilateral and multilateral action must be countenanced by a fully theorized “responsibility to …