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The United States’ Position On The Extraterritorial Application Of Human Rights Obligations: Now Is The Time For Change, Beth Van Schaack Feb 2014

The United States’ Position On The Extraterritorial Application Of Human Rights Obligations: Now Is The Time For Change, Beth Van Schaack

International Law Studies

This article contends that in the upcoming Human Rights Committee proceedings, the U.S. should abandon the categorical argument that its human rights obligations do not apply extraterritorially in favor of a more nuanced approach that reflects the majority position reached by the range of human rights treaty bodies and courts as well as the legal framework applicable to our coalition partners and other allies. The U.S. failure to acknowledge limited, well-established, and principled exceptions to a strictly territorial application of its human rights obligations ultimately undermines the legitimacy of other, more efficacious, arguments at its disposal—such as its position on …


Keeping The Cyber Peace: International Legal Aspects Of Cyber Activities In Peace Operations, Jann K. Kleffner, Heather A. Harrison Dinniss Dec 2013

Keeping The Cyber Peace: International Legal Aspects Of Cyber Activities In Peace Operations, Jann K. Kleffner, Heather A. Harrison Dinniss

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Direct Participation In Hostilities And The Interoperability Of The Law Of Armed Conflict And Human Rights Law, Francoise J. Hampson Aug 2011

Direct Participation In Hostilities And The Interoperability Of The Law Of Armed Conflict And Human Rights Law, Francoise J. Hampson

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Xviii Concluding Remarks: Loac And Attempts To Abuse Or Subvert It, Yoram Dinstein Aug 2011

Xviii Concluding Remarks: Loac And Attempts To Abuse Or Subvert It, Yoram Dinstein

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Dark Sides Of Convergence: A Pro-Civilian Critique Of The Extraterritorial Application Of Human Rights Law In Armed Conflict, Naz K. Modirzadeh Dec 2010

The Dark Sides Of Convergence: A Pro-Civilian Critique Of The Extraterritorial Application Of Human Rights Law In Armed Conflict, Naz K. Modirzadeh

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Making The Case For Conflict Bifurcation In Afghanistan: Transnational Armed Conflict, Al Qaida, And The Limits Of Associated Militia Concept, Geoffrey S. Corn Aug 2009

Making The Case For Conflict Bifurcation In Afghanistan: Transnational Armed Conflict, Al Qaida, And The Limits Of Associated Militia Concept, Geoffrey S. Corn

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Is Human Rights Law Of Any Relevance To Military Operations In Afghanistan?, Francoise J. Hampson Aug 2009

Is Human Rights Law Of Any Relevance To Military Operations In Afghanistan?, Francoise J. Hampson

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Legal Issues In Forming The Coalition, Alan Cole Aug 2009

Legal Issues In Forming The Coalition, Alan Cole

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Treatment Of Detainees And The "Global War On Terror": Selected Legal Issues, David Turns Aug 2008

The Treatment Of Detainees And The "Global War On Terror": Selected Legal Issues, David Turns

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Luncheon Address International Legal Public Diplomacy, John B. Bellinger Iii Aug 2007

Luncheon Address International Legal Public Diplomacy, John B. Bellinger Iii

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Debating The Issues, Kenneth Roth, Robert F. Turner Oct 2006

Debating The Issues, Kenneth Roth, Robert F. Turner

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Legal And Tactical Dilemmas Inherit In Fighting Terror: Experience Of The Israeli Army In Jenin And Bethlehem (April-May 2002), Alan Baker May 2006

Legal And Tactical Dilemmas Inherit In Fighting Terror: Experience Of The Israeli Army In Jenin And Bethlehem (April-May 2002), Alan Baker

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Antecedents Of The Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court Revisited, Shabtai Rosenne Aug 2000

Antecedents Of The Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court Revisited, Shabtai Rosenne

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, Cherif M. Bassiouni Aug 2000

The Normative Framework Of International Humanitarian Law: Overlaps, Gaps, And Ambiguities, Cherif M. Bassiouni

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.