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Glocalizing Law And Culture: Towards A Cross-Constitutive Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Glocalizing Law And Culture: Towards A Cross-Constitutive Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
This lecture addresses the relationship between law and culture in three general parts. The first part consists of a brief review of the theories addressing the relationship of law and culture, mainly the mirror theory. But I will suggest that there is more to the relationship of law and culture than one being an inert reflection of the other; hence my proposal for what I call, as a working concept, a cross-constitutive paradigm of law and culture. The second part reviews the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW''), a law that seeks to effect …
Unsex Cedaw? No! Super-Sex It!, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Unsex Cedaw? No! Super-Sex It!, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
This Article reflects upon Darren Rosenblum's provocative piece Unsex CEDAW, or What's Wrong with Women's Rights. At the outset I should note that this critical analysis should not be misinterpreted. I do not quarrel with Professor Rosenblum's observations that inequality in law and life is much broader than sex inequalities. To the contrary, I am in full accord with him that discrimination along other categorical axes is also undesirable and sometimes as prevalent as sex inequality. Indeed, oftentimes such other discriminatory tendencies dovetail with those rooted in sex discrimination. Where we diverge, however, is in his proposal that the category …
The Effect Of Treaties And Other Formal International Acts On The Customary Law Of Human Rights, Arthur M. Weisburd
The Effect Of Treaties And Other Formal International Acts On The Customary Law Of Human Rights, Arthur M. Weisburd
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Voiceless Victims: Sex Slavery And Trafficking Of African Women In Western Europe, Melanie R. Wallace
Voiceless Victims: Sex Slavery And Trafficking Of African Women In Western Europe, Melanie R. Wallace
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Reconciling Indigenous And Women's Rights To Land In Sub-Saharan Africa, Aparna Polavarapu
Reconciling Indigenous And Women's Rights To Land In Sub-Saharan Africa, Aparna Polavarapu
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Human Rights Conventions And Reservations: An Examination Of A Critical Deficit In The Cedaw, Michael Buenger
Human Rights Conventions And Reservations: An Examination Of A Critical Deficit In The Cedaw, Michael Buenger
Michael Buenger
Human rights agreements like CEDAW contain language that seeks to inspire and establish the legal boundaries of state action with regards to protected rights. Such agreements also contain reservation provisions that enable states to join an agreement and simultaneously exempt themselves from the very substantive goals the agreement seeks to achieve. In the past, the issue of reservation compatibility has been treated as political questions under an objection process. Establishing a mechanism for testing reservation compatibility before the ICJ is a better means of ensuring that states do not nonchalantly exempt themselves from human rights obligations through reservations.