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Our First Televised Genocide, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

It is absolutely appalling that we have come so casually to observe the carnage, so passively to view the starvation over breakfast papers or dinnertime newscasts, so helplessly to watch these totally bereft human beings trudging barefoot over treacherous terrain toward the middle of nowhere.

There are other questions as well, of course, not as easily answered. Where are all their voices now, those demonstrators who so vociferously opposed war, ostensibly out of an overweening reverence for life? Is the latter-day holocaust being systematically perpetrated in northern Iraq any less horrifying than a direct hit on a camouflaged bomb shelter …

Islam And The State, Ann Elizabeth Mayer

Cardozo Law Review

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Modern Technology And The Law Of Armed Conflict At Sea, Horace B. Robertson Jr.

International Law Studies

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Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

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Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects Of Attack, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison

International Law Studies

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Noncombatant Persons A Comment To Chapter 11 Of The Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations, Frits Kalshoven

International Law Studies

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Index

International Law Studies

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Appendix: Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations

International Law Studies

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The Development Of Minimum Standards For The Protection And Promotion Of Rights For Indigenous Peoples, Laura Stomski

American Indian Law Review

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Self-Determination And World Public Order, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

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International Human Rights Law In Soviet And American Courts, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

To what extent should domestic courts apply international law – specifically the international law of human rights? I would like to examine this question with reference to two very different states: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States. For quite distinct reasons, neither of the two has yet fully embraced the idea of direct application in national tribunals of the body of international law that regulates the relationship between human beings and their own governments. As the post-Cold War era unfolds, it is time to ask whether either or both of these erstwhile adversaries might finally be …

Free Speech: It's Great For Hate, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Refugee Act Of 1980: Suggested Reforms In The Overseas Refugee Program To Safeguard Humanitarian Concerns From Competing Interests, Tahl Tyson

Washington Law Review

The Refugee Act of 1980 established an overseas refugee admissions program based on systematic consultations between Congress and the executive branch. The author suggests that refugee policy is subject to four competing influences: humanitarian concerns, foreign policy, special interest groups, and domestic concerns. Of these influences, the author argues that humanitarian concerns should be the primary basis for United States refugee policy. However, humanitarian concerns are currently overwhelmed by the other three influences. This Comment critiques the lack of safeguards in the Act for humanitarian concerns and proposes specific reforms.

The Pull Of The Mainstream, Martti Koskenniemi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law by Theodor Meron

The Comprehensive Plan Of Action For Indo-Chinese Refugees: An Experiment In Refugee Protection And Control, Arthur C. Helton

NYLS Journal of Human Rights

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Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Developments in the Law of Treaties 1945-1986

By Shabtai Rosenne

New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xxv, 535. $75.00.

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Materials on International Human Rights and U.S. Criminal Law and Procedure

By Hurst Hannum

Washington, D.C.: The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, 1989. Pp. ii, 152. $20.00.

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A Guide to the Laws, Regulations and Policies of the People's Republic of China By James L. Kenworthy, Esq.

Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1989. Pp. xvi, 189. $85.00.

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Refugee Law and Policy: International and U.S. Responses

Ed. by Ved P. Nanda

New York, N.Y.: …

Disappearances And The Inter-American Court: Reflections On A Litigation Experience, Juan E. Mendez

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Public Demonstrations And The Rule Of Law In The Age Of Glasnost And Perestroika, 5 Am. U. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 13 (1989), Ralph Ruebner

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child: A Policy-Oriented Overview, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

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Conscientious Objection In South Africa: Governmental Paranoia And The Law Of Conscription, Lynn Berat

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

By the end of 1975, Mozambique and Angola' had gained independence; in 1980, Rhodesia became black majority ruled Zimbabwe.' Although it is currently occupied illegally by South Africa in contravention of both a United Nations Security Council Resolution and an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice,' even Namibia (also known as South West Africa) will soon become an independent state.' No longer surrounded by a buffer zone of white minority ruled states separating it from black ruled Africa, South Africa stands alone, the last outpost of white supremacy on the continent.

Amidst all of these developments, the South …

"Political Opinions" Of Refugees: Interpreting International Sources, Linda Dale Bevis

Washington Law Review

To receive asylum in the United States, persons must show that they are "refugees." They do so by demonstrating fear of persecution on account of political opinion, race, religion, nationality, or social group membership. The most common basis for an asylum claim is political opinion. However, there is no consistently applied interpretation of "persecution on account of political opinion" in United States law. An appropriate construction of the term would consider its development in the historical context of refugee law. This Comment explores the spirit of international instruments and interpretive materials, as well as United States legislative history behind the …

"Political Opinions" Of Refugees: Interpreting International Sources, Linda Dale Bevis

Washington Law Review

To receive asylum in the United States, persons must show that they are "refugees." They do so by demonstrating fear of persecution on account of political opinion, race, religion, nationality, or social group membership. The most common basis for an asylum claim is political opinion. However, there is no consistently applied interpretation of "persecution on account of political opinion" in United States law. An appropriate construction of the term would consider its development in the historical context of refugee law. This Comment explores the spirit of international instruments and interpretive materials, as well as United States legislative history behind the …

The Alien Tort Statute: International Human Rights Watchdog Or Simply Historical Trivia, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 341 (1988), Debra A. Harvey

UIC Law Review

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Humanitarian Intervention, Daniel Wolf

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article argues that humanitarian intervention to prevent the mass slaughter by a state of its own citizens is not only a morally but a legally justifiable act under current norms of international law. The first section of the article discusses the traditional international legal rules concerning the doctrine of humanitarian intervention and their relevance to contemporary law. The second section analyzes the effect of the advent of the United Nations Charter on the legality of humanitarian intervention. Drawing on state practice and the opinion of the international legal community, the third section argues that the emergence of a post-Charter …

The Law Of Piracy: "Piracy" In The Twentieth Century, Alfred P. Rubin

International Law Studies

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The Law Of Piracy: Index, Alfred P. Rubin

International Law Studies

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The Law Of Piracy: Table Of Contents, Alfred P. Rubin

International Law Studies

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Helping Those Who Help The Sojourner Among Us: Viable Defenses For Members Of The Sanctuary Movement, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 135 (1987), Barbara A. Sherry

UIC Law Review

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New Frontiers: The Expansion Of International Criminal Law, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

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International Courts And The Efficacy Of International Law, Mark Weston Janis

Faculty Articles and Papers

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