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The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan 2023 American University in Cairo

The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of modern-nation states saw the end of the empirical era of exploitation and exercise of inherent racist tendencies towards the 'other'. However, the effect of that colonial system is still ever-present in the creation and governance of these newly independent states. While every new state aims to be 'modern', they adopt the international legal framework of the West as their own - a system they had initially wanted to escape. The concept of Muslim universality in the form of the ummah should have freed Pakistan from the shackles of its former colonial masters. Instead, this phenomenon was replaced …


Locked Up And Trafficked Out: Prison Labor And The Thirteenth Amendment, Megan Massie 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Locked Up And Trafficked Out: Prison Labor And The Thirteenth Amendment, Megan Massie

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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As If Prison Wasn't Bad Enough: Covid-19 And Intensified Interest In The Politics Of Crime (Luncheon Address), Paul Schnell 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

As If Prison Wasn't Bad Enough: Covid-19 And Intensified Interest In The Politics Of Crime (Luncheon Address), Paul Schnell

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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The Constitutional Right To Medical And Mental Health Care In Correctional Facilities, Andrew Noel 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

The Constitutional Right To Medical And Mental Health Care In Correctional Facilities, Andrew Noel

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Winning A Case Is Not The End: Making The Right To Prison Health Care A Reality, Corene Kendrick 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Winning A Case Is Not The End: Making The Right To Prison Health Care A Reality, Corene Kendrick

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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The Perspective Of Incarcerated Persons (Panel Discussion), Oray Fifer, Rudy Martinez, Paul Wright 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

The Perspective Of Incarcerated Persons (Panel Discussion), Oray Fifer, Rudy Martinez, Paul Wright

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers Do Vital Work Despite The Courts (Symposium Keynote), Sharon Dolovich 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers Do Vital Work Despite The Courts (Symposium Keynote), Sharon Dolovich

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Allowing The Courts To Step In Where Needed: Applying The Plra's 90-Day Limit On Preliminary Relief, Catherine T. Struve 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Allowing The Courts To Step In Where Needed: Applying The Plra's 90-Day Limit On Preliminary Relief, Catherine T. Struve

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Mass Incarceration And Misinformation: The Covid-19 Infodemic Behind Bars, Rachel Kincaid 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Mass Incarceration And Misinformation: The Covid-19 Infodemic Behind Bars, Rachel Kincaid

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Taking The Prison Rape Elimination Act Seriously: Setting Clear Standards For Identifying And Protecting Vulnerable Prisoners From Sexual Violence In Confinement, Claire C. Barlow, Alexander D. Klein 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Taking The Prison Rape Elimination Act Seriously: Setting Clear Standards For Identifying And Protecting Vulnerable Prisoners From Sexual Violence In Confinement, Claire C. Barlow, Alexander D. Klein

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Dismantling The Discrimination-To-Incarceration Pipeline For Trans People Of Color, Chinyere Ezie 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Dismantling The Discrimination-To-Incarceration Pipeline For Trans People Of Color, Chinyere Ezie

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Access Denied: Public Records And Incarcerated People, Andrea C. Armstrong 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Access Denied: Public Records And Incarcerated People, Andrea C. Armstrong

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Prisoner Rights And Prison Conditions: Law Journal Symposium, Spring 2022, Gregory Sisk 2023 University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis)

Prisoner Rights And Prison Conditions: Law Journal Symposium, Spring 2022, Gregory Sisk

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Welcome, Robert K. Vischer 2023 University of St. Thomas School of Law

Welcome, Robert K. Vischer

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

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Putin’S Arrest Warrant: The What And The Why Of “Unlawful Deportation Of Children”, Maxwell Granger 2023 Golden Gate University School of Law

Putin’S Arrest Warrant: The What And The Why Of “Unlawful Deportation Of Children”, Maxwell Granger

GGU Law Review Blog

Earlier this year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation. The charge: unlawful deportation of children, a war crime. While there have been many calls to prosecute Mr. Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine (indeed, the United States even passed a new law which could allow such a prosecution in the U.S.), some might be wondering what “unlawful deportation of children” exactly entails and why the ICC chose this particular charge.


The Gross Injustices Of Capital Punishment: A Torturous Practice And Justice Thurgood Marshall’S Astute Appraisal Of The Death Penalty’S Cruelty, Discriminatory Use, And Unconstitutionality, John D. Bessler 2023 University of Baltimore School of Law

The Gross Injustices Of Capital Punishment: A Torturous Practice And Justice Thurgood Marshall’S Astute Appraisal Of The Death Penalty’S Cruelty, Discriminatory Use, And Unconstitutionality, John D. Bessler

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Through the centuries, capital punishment and torture have been used by monarchs, authoritarian regimes, and judicial systems around the world. Although torture is now expressly outlawed by international law, capital punishment—questioned by Quakers in the seventeenth century and by the Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria and many others in the following century—has been authorized over time by various legislative bodies, including in the United States. It was Beccaria’s book, Dei delitti e delle pene (1764), translated into French and then into English as An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1767), that fueled the still-ongoing international movement to outlaw the death penalty. …


Relentless Atrocities: The Persecution Of Hazaras, Mehdi J. Hakimi 2023 Harvard Law School

Relentless Atrocities: The Persecution Of Hazaras, Mehdi J. Hakimi

Michigan Journal of International Law

As one of the main ethnic groups in Afghanistan, Hazaras are Farsi-speaking and mostly Shi’a Muslims in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country. They are also distinguishable by their Asiatic appearance. Throughout Afghanistan’s history, Hazaras have suffered considerably under different regimes, enduring recurring massacres, enslavement, and forced displacement. Despite Afghanistan’s accession to the Rome Statute in 2003, the plight of Hazaras has not improved. Indeed, the assaults on Hazaras have only intensified in recent years, impacting virtually every aspect of their lives.

This article argues that the recent and ongoing attacks against Hazaras constitute a crime against humanity. In particular, I …


Table Of Contents, 2023 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Table Of Contents

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Editor's Note, Peyton Holahan 2023 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Editor's Note, Peyton Holahan

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

To commemorate the accomplishment of abolition and to look back at Virginia’s long and complicated history with the death penalty, the Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice’s 2021–2022 Symposium titled Revoking Irrevocable Punishment centered around Virginia’s long, complex, and sorrowful path toward abolition. From February 10 to February 11 of 2021, the Journal organized and moderated seven panels that addressed various components of the death penalty discourse in Virginia, past and present.


The Court And Capital Punishment On Different Paths: Abolition In Waiting, Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker 2023 Harvard Law School

The Court And Capital Punishment On Different Paths: Abolition In Waiting, Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

The American death penalty finds itself in an unusual position. On the ground, the practice is weaker than at any other time in our history. Eleven jurisdictions have abandoned the death penalty over the past fifteen years, almost doubling the number of states without the punishment (twenty-three). Executions have declined substantially, totaling twenty-five or fewer a year nationwide for the past six years, compared to an average of seventy-seven a year during the six-year span around the millennium (1997-2002). Most tellingly, death sentences have fallen off a cliff, with fewer the fifty death sentences a year nationwide over the past …


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