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Hybrid Courts: Examining Hybridity Through A Post-Colonial Lens, Elizabeth M. Bruch

Law Faculty Publications

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Los Grandes Rechazos De La Sentencia Roe V. Wade, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

: Quizás mayormente a causa del poder económico de los Estados Unidos, su alta jurisprudencia constitucional suele tener mucha influencia en otros países. En particular, la sentencia de la Corte Suprema norteamericana Roe v. Wade, que declaró un derecho al aborto durante todo el embarazo, puede conducir a la legalización del aborto a petición por los grandes tribunales de otras naciones. Pero antes de intentar de andar este surco abierto por la Corte estadounidense, los otros tribunales desearán saber que la sentencia ha sido rotundamente rechazada por fuentes bastante sorprendentes. El razonamiento de Roe ha sido rechazado por los peritos …

The Principled Case For Employing Private Military And Security Companies In Humanitarian Interventions And Peacekeeping, Deane-Peter Baker, James Pattison

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The possibility of using private military and security companies to bolster the capacity to undertake humanitarian intervention has been increasingly debated. The focus of such discussions has, however, largely been on practical issues and the contingent problems posed by private force. By contrast, this paper considers the principled case for privatising humanitarian intervention. It focuses on two central issues. First, is there a case for preferring these firms to other, state-based agents of humanitarian intervention? In particular, given a state’s duties to their own military personnel, should the use of private military and security contractors be preferred to regular soldiers …

Tackling Disability Discrimination At Work: Toward A Systematic Approach, Dianne Pothier

Dianne Pothier Collection

Approaching disability discrimination in systemic terms is the most fundamental challenge that disability human rights law currently faces. Achieving fundamental change in relation to disability at work necessitates challenging able-bodied norms. To that end, a social construction of disability entails adapting the environment to meet the needs of those with a variety of dis-abilities. Tackling disability discrimination requires contesting what is deemed “normal” be­cause it is the way most able-bodied persons function, necessitating a thorough understanding of adverse effects discrimination, which looks behind purportedly neutral practices to uncover detrimental effects on those who do not function “normally”.

The fact that …

Reproductive Health As A Human Right, Lance Gable

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Contracts Confidential: Ending Secret Deals In The Extractive Industries, Peter Rosenblum, Susan Maples

Human Rights Institute

The laws of contract and international commercial relations generally suppose two corporate entities doing business with each other, both seeking profits and answering to shareholders. This makes sense, unless one of the parties is not a corporate entity, but rather a government, answerable to citizens. Even as they conduct business, governments have duties, obligations and interests that go well beyond pure profit maximization. As such, the same secrecy afforded to contracting parties in commercial law is out of place in such contracts. Governments must be held accountable for all contracts they enter, be they for the provision of roads or …

The Olympic Meddle: The International Olympic Committee's Intrusion Of Athletes' Privacy Through The Discriminatory Practice Of Gender Verification Testing, 28 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 49 (2010), Raheel Saleem

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

The IOC and the IAAF act as governing bodies for athletes and, therefore, are innately responsible for their actions. However, the gender verification rule exemplifies that irresponsible actions by these governing agencies adversely effects its athletes. The gender verification rule empowers both the IOC and the IAAF to make life-changing decisions without any restriction, leaving athletes susceptible to the unfettered power and abuse of the rule. The legal foundation established by the international human rights declarations support the argument that gender verification testing must be abolished because of its embedded discrimination and intrusive nature. An application of the ICCPR provides …

The Promise And Limits Of Local Human Rights Internationalism, Lesley Wexler

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The fourth of a multi-part series of papers that takes a supportive but critical look at the project of bringing international law home. This article focuses on cities as a vital pathway to bring the human rights discussion from the international to the local.

Walking The Legal Tightrope: Solutions For Achieving A Balanced Life In Law, Leslie Larkin Cooney

Faculty Scholarship

Leslie Cooney, Walking the Legal Tightrope: Solutions for Achieving a Balanced Life in Law, 47 San Diego Law Review 421 (2010). For over twenty years, issues surrounding women and their status in the legal profession have been documented, analyzed, and reported. The American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Women in its 1988 study concluded that a thorough reexamination of attitudes and structures within the legal profession was needed to remedy the underrepresentation of women in the positions of power within the profession-law firm partnerships and judicial appointments. Nearly a decade later, the ABA Commission on Women found that little …

Opening Remarks: Remarks Of Dean Claudio Grossman, Claudio Grossman

Human Rights Brief

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Ten Years After The Palermo Protocol: Where Are Protections For Human Trafficking?, Kelly Hyland Heinrich

Human Rights Brief

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Thinking/Practicing Clinical Legal Education From Within The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Lessons From The Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic, David F. Chavkin

Human Rights Brief

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Book Review, Asheesh Bhalla, Shubra Ohri

Human Rights Brief

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Keynote: The Role Of The United States In Strengthening The Prohibition Against Torture, Michael Posner, Claudio Grossman

Human Rights Brief

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International Legal Updates , Evan Wilson, Tracey Begley, Caitlin Shay, Shubra Ohri, Annamaria Racota, Bhavani Raveendran, Ri Yoo, Aileen Thomson

Human Rights Brief

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United Nations And Ngo Updates, Zach Zarnow, Doug Keillor

Human Rights Brief

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When Is The Past Not The Past? Reflections On Customary Law Under South Africa’S Constitutional Dispensation, Sanele Sibanda

Human Rights Brief

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Climate Change And The Regional Human Rights Systems, Megan Chapman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Right To Freedom Of Speech And International Human Rights Law: Introduction, Claudia Martin, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón

American University International Law Review

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Las Sanciones Penales Frente A Expresiones Sobre Temas De Relevancia Pública: ¿Limitación O Violación A La Libertad De Expresión?, Juan Camilo Rivera Rugeles

American University International Law Review

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The Media And The Anti-Corruption Crusade In Kenya: Weighing The Achievements, Challenges, And Prospects , James Forole Jarso

American University International Law Review

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Are Hate Speech Provisions Anti-Democratic?: An International Perspective , Robin Edger

American University International Law Review

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Freedom Of Expression And The Right To Reputation: Human Rights In Conflict, Stijn Smet

American University International Law Review

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Multilateral Development Banks And The Human Right Responsibility , Leonardo A. Crippa

American University International Law Review

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Significance Of The Fujimori Trial, Juan E. Méndez

American University International Law Review

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Prologue, Claudio Grossman

American University International Law Review

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Implicaciones Jurídicas Del Desarrollo Del Derecho De Acceso A La Información Pública En El Marco Del Derecho A La Libertad De Expresión Y Los Derechos Humanos , Gracielo Romero Silvera

American University International Law Review

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Achieving Justice Through Rebellious Lawyering: Restructuring Systems Of Law And Power For Social Change, Ashly Hinmon

The Modern American

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Fifty State Survey Of Juvenile Sex Offender Registration Statutes, Brenda V. Smith

The Project on Addressing Prison Rape - Surveys

This publication is part of a larger scholarly project and one in a series that aims to create a “legal toolkit” for addressing sexual violence in custody. This chart collects statutes from the fifty states and territories that address registration of juvenile sex offenders. The chart lists: All registrable offenses; information maintained in the registry; the legal basis for juvenile sex offender registration; the duration of registration, community notification and website information; and limitations on residency or employment.

Victor's Justice: Selecting "Situations" At The International Criminal Court, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 535 (2010), William A. Schabas

UIC Law Review

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