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Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan

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This essay introduces the Chicago-Kent Symposium on Women's Legal History: A Global Perspective. It seeks to situate the field of women's legal history and to explore what it means to begin writing a transnational women's history which transcends and at times disrupts the nation state. In doing so, it sets forth some of the fundamental premises of women's legal history and points to new ways of writing such histories.


Promises And Perils Of New Global Governance: A Case Of The G20 (With C. Kelly), Sungjoon Cho, Claire R. Kelly 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Promises And Perils Of New Global Governance: A Case Of The G20 (With C. Kelly), Sungjoon Cho, Claire R. Kelly

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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a new global governance structure emerged. During and subsequent to the crisis, the G20 arose as a coordinating executive among international governance institutions. It set policy agendas, prioritized initiatives and, working through the Financial Stability Board, drew other governance institutions and networks such as the International Monetary Fund, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Trade Organization, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and the International Organization of Securities Commissions to set standards, monitor enforcement and compliance, and aid recovery. Its authority cross-cuts regimes …


The Internet At 20: Evolution Of A Constitution For Cyberspace, Henry H. Perritt Jr. 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

The Internet At 20: Evolution Of A Constitution For Cyberspace, Henry H. Perritt Jr.

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This Article looks back over the Internet’s first twenty years, highlighting the crucial legal decisions by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that have led to the Internet’s success, and which now frame its constitution. I participated in many of these decisions and wrote more than a dozen law review articles and reports suggesting directions for public policy and law. This Article uses this foundation to consider the future, focusing on major legal controversies, the resolution of which will define the Internet’s third decade—either strengthening or undermining its constitution.


Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Vertical Dimensions In The Quality Of Law, Bartram Brown

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Immigration And National Security Law: Converging Approaches To State Power, Individual Rights, And Judicial Review, J. Hafetz 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Immigration And National Security Law: Converging Approaches To State Power, Individual Rights, And Judicial Review, J. Hafetz

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, national security law has exploded as a field of study.


Disasters And Land Use Law: The Spanish Case In The European Union Legal Framework, Julio Ponce 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Disasters And Land Use Law: The Spanish Case In The European Union Legal Framework, Julio Ponce

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Natural and man-made disasters are a major European worry, due to their increasing frequency and severity, as well as their impact on human life, destruction of economic and social infrastructures, and damage to the environment.


Is News Of "Sovereignty's Death" Exaggerated?, Itzchak Kornfeld 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Is News Of "Sovereignty's Death" Exaggerated?, Itzchak Kornfeld

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Whether sovereignty is alive or dead may not be the appropriate question.


State And Local Regulation Of Immigration: The Need For A Bilateral (Reciprocal) Ratchet, David P. Weber 2012 Nova Southeastern University

State And Local Regulation Of Immigration: The Need For A Bilateral (Reciprocal) Ratchet, David P. Weber

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The issue of federal preemption in the field of immigration has been swirling more and more strongly in academia, the courts, and even the public consciousness' ever since De Canas v. Bica was decided in 1976.


The Anti-Shari'a Movement And Oklahoma's Save Our State Amendment-Unconstitutional Discrimination Or Homeland Security?, Robert E. Michael 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Anti-Shari'a Movement And Oklahoma's Save Our State Amendment-Unconstitutional Discrimination Or Homeland Security?, Robert E. Michael

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Legislation by statute or state constitutional amendment prohibiting the application in state courts of an ill defined "Shariah Law" and/or "international law" has passed or is in the process in over twenty states.'


Expansive Reach-Useless Guidance: An Introduction To The U.K. Bribery Act 2010, Bruce W. Bean, Emma H. MacGuidwin 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Expansive Reach-Useless Guidance: An Introduction To The U.K. Bribery Act 2010, Bruce W. Bean, Emma H. Macguidwin

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Following two decades of incessant pressure from American diplomats, in 1997, the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) completed negotiation of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.


The Treaty Of Lisbon And Accession Of The European Union To The European Convention On Human Rights, Elizabeth F. Defeis 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Treaty Of Lisbon And Accession Of The European Union To The European Convention On Human Rights, Elizabeth F. Defeis

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The Treaty of Lisbon, adopted in December 2009, constitutes a major step in the development of the protection of Human Rights in Europe.


Who's Missing? Women With Disabilities In U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 National Action Plans, Stephanie Ortoleva, Esq. 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Who's Missing? Women With Disabilities In U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 National Action Plans, Stephanie Ortoleva, Esq.

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Despite progress made through a series of United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR), beginning with the groundbreaking UNSCR 1325 in 2000,' to give women a place at the table in post-conflict peace building and reconciliation, women with disabilities are missing and ignored and have not had a role in these processes.


Responsibilty To Protect (R 2p) Comes Of Age? A Sceptic's View, John F. Murphy 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Responsibilty To Protect (R 2p) Comes Of Age? A Sceptic's View, John F. Murphy

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

As a young attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States (U.S.) Department of State during the 1960s, I had the privilege and the pleasure of working with Don McHenry, then a young foreign service reserve officer and later U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (U.N.).


Mr. Ban-Tear Down The U.N'S Wall Of Immunity/Impunity (Before A National Court Does)!!, Great L. Rios, Edward P. Flaherty 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Mr. Ban-Tear Down The U.N'S Wall Of Immunity/Impunity (Before A National Court Does)!!, Great L. Rios, Edward P. Flaherty

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Immunity has been proven to be not only a living anachronism, but one which often leads to impunity for the worst kinds of rights violations.


Moudawan And Women's Rights In Morocco: Balancing National And International Law, Leila Hanafi 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Moudawan And Women's Rights In Morocco: Balancing National And International Law, Leila Hanafi

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Morocco's 2004 Moudawana (family code) is undoubtedly a progressive piece of legislation for women in Morocco.


Transnational Surrpgacy And International Human Rights Law, Barbara Stark 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Transnational Surrpgacy And International Human Rights Law, Barbara Stark

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Surrogacy refers to the process through which a woman intentionally becomes pregnant with a baby that she does not intend to keep.


Rule Of Law In Morocco: A Journey Towards A Better Judiciary Through The Implementation Of The 2011 Constitutional Reforms, Norman L. Greene 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Rule Of Law In Morocco: A Journey Towards A Better Judiciary Through The Implementation Of The 2011 Constitutional Reforms, Norman L. Greene

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Judicial reform has historically been an important (but not the sole) component of rule of law reform, a decades old movement affecting the developing world, emerging (or not so emerging) democracies and post- conflict nations, and equally applicable to countries commonly identified as Western, including the United States.


Expanding The R2p Tool-Kit: New Political Possibilities And Attendant Legal Uncertainties, John Cerone 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Expanding The R2p Tool-Kit: New Political Possibilities And Attendant Legal Uncertainties, John Cerone

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The international community has begun to live up to its name. Dramatic legal and political developments of the past fifty years have greatly expanded the array of tools available for responding to grave human rights situations internal to members of the community, and have manifested an increased willingness to deploy those tools to further the human rights values of the community.


Nuclear Disarmament And The United Nations Disarmament Machinery, Alicia Godsberg 2012 Nova Southeastern University

Nuclear Disarmament And The United Nations Disarmament Machinery, Alicia Godsberg

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The United Nations (U.N.) was formed as World War II was ending with the lofty goal of preventing the scourge of war from ever again engulfing the world in global conflict.


The Future Of International Criminal Justice: The Crucial Role Of The United States, Judge Richard Goldstone 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Future Of International Criminal Justice: The Crucial Role Of The United States, Judge Richard Goldstone

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Eight or nine years ago the American Bar Association honored the then President of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, at a luncheon during its annual meeting in Atlanta.


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