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Women's Work: Building Peace In War-Affected Communities Of Uganda And Sierra Leone, Jennifer Moore

Faculty Book Display Case

When women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies

In Women’s Work, Jennifer Moore presents a reimagined theory of peacebuilding and transformative justice based on the experiences and insights of women farmers and microentrepreneurs who lived through protracted civil conflicts, drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across ten communities—five in the Acholi region of Northern Uganda and five in the Moyamba and Koinadugu Districts of Sierra Leone. Despite the important differences between the preconflict and conflict histories and demographics of the two …

"I Was Young And Dumb": Why Age Should Be Considered In The Military Discharge Upgrade Process, Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin

Texas A&M Law Review

Approximately 40% of the United States military is no older than 25. Despite the robust and continued prevalence of young people serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Space Force, no special consideration is explicitly given to a servicemember’s age when considering upgrades for those discharged under less-than-honorable conditions. These young people volunteer to risk their lives, expecting to be honorably discharged and eligible to receive the benefits promised to them during recruitment and enlistment; however, many instead find themselves with a less-than-honorable discharge, thereby barred from the benefits that motivated them to join in the …

Amicus Briefs, Retired Senior Military Officers, And The Judiciary: A Unique "Friend Of The Court," In The Constitutional Construct Of Civil And Military Relations, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Cleveland State Law Review

Military organizations, and particular, small groups of retired flag officers (generals and admirals) have increasingly filed amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeal. Most prominent among these are the “Becton Brief,” a group of largely Vietnam Veterans who were concerned that the Court would end any ability of the higher education system to consider race in admissions. Named after Julius Becton, a retired Army general, Vietnam Veteran, and former FEMA director, the brief’s signatories included General Norman Schwarzkopf and Admiral William Crowe, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The brief …

Social Contracts: The State Convention Drafting History Of The Lockean Natural Rights Guarantees, Anthony B. Sanders

UMKC Law Review

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The Green Wall Of Silence, Frank Rosenblatt

Journal Articles

This chapter contemplates the “Green Wall of Silence” through several examples. In Iraq, following the detainee abuse scandal at the U.S. military operated prison in Abu Ghraib in 2004, military officials announced that the abuse was the result of just a “few bad apples,” reaching this conclusion through a series of investigations that chilled or blocked witnesses from revealing actual truths, and avoided examining the role of higher-level officials who contributed to the abuses. In Afghanistan, military leaders lauded U.S. Army Corporal Pat Tillman for his conduct in a heroic firefight with the enemy, but concealed from the public the …

P*Law 2025, Center For Public Service Law

2024–2025 Flyers

This document outlines the full schedule for Cardozo Law School’s 2025 P*LAW Week, hosted by the Center for Public Service Law. Held from January 27 to January 30, the week featured a variety of panels, workshops, and student-led presentations on topics such as reproductive justice, housing, LGBTQ+ immigration, international human rights, labor law, and social justice. Events included guest speakers from leading advocacy organizations, mock interviews, and internship prep sessions, all designed to engage students in public interest law and foster professional development.

Safeguarding Submarine Cables And Pipelines In Times Of Peace And War, Raul (Pete) Pedrozo

International Law Studies

Incidents involving damage to undersea infrastructure illustrate the vulnerability of submarine cables and pipelines. While damage can occur accidentally in peacetime, recent incidents suggest cables and pipelines are being systematically targeted and that the resulting damage is not accidental or the result of poor seamanship. Most undersea infrastructure can also be attacked as a military objective in wartime. Peacetime adversaries or opposing belligerents during an armed conflict can easily damage undersea infrastructure to further their political, strategic, or wartime objectives. These incidents also highlight the inadequacy of coastal State authority under international law to take measures against foreign-flagged vessels intentionally …

Louboutin Lawfare: Exploring Conceptions Of Sanctions' Utility Through Export Controls On Luxury Goods, Vinita R. Singh

Northwestern University Law Review

There is widespread consensus amongst scholars that sanctions—the deliberate withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations—do not work. Despite this perception, states are deploying sanctions at an increasing rate. This Article explains this paradox by arguing the predominant notion of sanctions’ utility employed by scholars is unduly constrained, narrowly focusing on the ability of such measures to modify the behavior of sanctioned parties while disregarding the alternative benefits this instrument can deliver. To support this argument, this Article uses export controls on luxury goods deployed in connection with the Russo–Ukraine War as a case study. Under prevailing perceptions of sanctions’ …

International Book Essay - Militarism And Law In Africa: A Governing Paradox, Rabiat Akande

Articles & Book Chapters

SAMUEL FURY CHILDS DALY. Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024

Introduction, In Children And Violence: Agency, Experience, And Representation In And Beyond Armed Conflict (Christelle Molima Bameka Et Al. Eds., 2025), Christelle Molima Bameka, Mohamed Kamara, Mark A. Drumbl

Books and Chapters

This multi-disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the ‘Global South.’

Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting- edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the …

Children As Informers And Denouncers, In Children And Violence: Agency, Experience, And Representation In And Beyond Armed Conflict (Christelle Molima Bameka Et Al. Eds., 2025), Mark A. Drumbl, Barbora Holá

Books and Chapters

This chapter explores the use of children in propaganda and informing networks as forms of violence. While this chapter nests in 20th- century Communism in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, the interface of children with these networks is not unique to these times and places. Indeed, these experiences link to those elsewhere, thereby elucidating the dually manipulated and agentic role of children in a regime’s fight for legitimacy and thereby blending with a number of contributions to this volume including those by Mohamed Kamara and Sylvie Bodineau. The point of this chapter is not to particularise (or pathologise) Soviet and …

Voting Matters: Materiality Considerations And The Shareholder Vote, Renee M. Jones

Seattle University Law Review

For the shareholder franchise to have meaning, shareholders must have access to relevant information to inform their voting decisions. The securities laws’ disclosure requirements play an essential role in informing the shareholder vote.

This Essay focuses on the question of the materiality of information in the context of shareholder voting. It addresses the question of whether ESG-related information is material, positioning the materiality inquiry within the context of shareholders’ voting decisions. It explores the definition of materiality with a focus on the “reasonable investor” concept embedded within the definition. The Essay argues that the implicit expectations of many commentators that …

Through A Glass Darkly: How Securities Disclosures Give A Distorted View Of The Economy, Gerald F. Davis

Seattle University Law Review

Our understanding of the American economy often relies on stylized facts derived from mandatory disclosures by listed corporations. Data vendors like Standard & Poor’s vacuum up 10Ks and proxy statements into databases, and scholars distill these into tentative maps. This may have been adequate for a postwar economy centered on asset-heavy manufacturers, but it is increasingly out of step with an information-based economy. Companies listed on the stock market are fewer in number and less representative than they were, light in tangible assets and people, and heavy on IP. Basic facts such as what industry they are in are increasingly …

Space Warfare: Do We Need Additional Treaties?, Col. Stuart A. Pettis (Ret.)

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

With the growth in counter-space weapons and military services dedicated to space, should International Humanitarian Law be expanded to address a “war in space?” This Paper will examine what a conflict in space would look like and existing laws that govern military activities in space. Ultimately, this paper will argue that International Humanitarian Law is already flexible enough to address this new venue for conflict. (Abstract from author.)

Does The Dual-Use Of Space Objects Necessitate A New Geneva Convention?, Svenja Berrang, Ll.M.

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

With “the first commercial space war” in Ukraine, the widespread and ever-increasing practice of using commercial space systems and services for military activities came to the public eye. States increasingly rely on and integrate commercial space activities1 into military activities to enhance their military capabilities and to strengthen deterrence. But by incorporating commercial actors into their military activities, States may incidentally make civil actors become military targets during an international armed conflict. Eventually, this may endanger commercial employees when those employees take direct part in hostilities and ultimately lose their protection as non-targeted civilians.

This Article examines the increased reliance …

Crippled By War: Arguing Russia’S Actions In Ukraine Constitute Disability Persecution Under Article 7(1)(H) Of The Rome Statute, Davis Hayman

American University International Law Review

During the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Russia implemented a “humanitarian aid” program which moved Ukrainian people with disabilities to Russia or Russian-controlled areas. The Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants under the theory that this program constitutes war crimes.

This Comment argues this program further qualifies as the crime of persecution against Ukrainians with disabilities. This piece first analyzes the crime of persecution, its relationship with other crimes and how non-enumerated groups can receive its protection. Next, this piece analyzes international human rights developments related to people with disabilities to show they qualify for such …

The 1949 Geneva Conventions At 75: Examining The Place Of Non-State Armed Groups, Ezequiel Heffes

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

When the 1949 Geneva Conventions were adopted seventy-five years ago, the armed conflict landscape was very different from the one we currently observe. Back then, although non-State armed groups (NSAGs) existed, their regulation was considered to fall (almost exclusively) under the relevant territorial State’s internal laws. Nowadays, on the contrary, every time the international community discusses the application of international law to armed conflict, questions emerge about the role, status, and behaviors of NSAGs. Due to their involvement in the majority of armed conflicts, NSAGs have become immovable actors of the international humanitarian legal scene. Many of these queries arise …

New Treaty Law On Autonomous Weapons? An Opportunity To Reframe The Discourse, Laurie R. Blank

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

Calls for a new treaty for autonomous weapons—or for any other new technology—stem from a concern at the most basic level: the concern that LOAC’s existing treaties are not sufficient to fulfill their core purposes of protecting civilians and other vulnerable persons and regulating the conduct of hostilities. Could treaties drafted in 1949—when air power was new and space a distant dream, when the first operational computer ran its first program and navigation relied on the compass and sextant—be sufficient for the complexities and challenges of the electromagnetic spectrum, artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics, machine learning, cyber, anti-satellite weapons, and other …

Autonomous Weapons Systems And Proportionality: The Need For Regulation, Craig Martin

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

This Article examines the question of whether International Humanitarian Law (IHL) requires modification to effectively govern autonomous weapons systems (AWS). Given that the imminent development and deployment is unlikely to be prohibited, and that AWS may not comply with IHL in certain circumstances, the question of why and how IHL needs to be adjusted is important, and not sufficiently studied. The analysis focuses on the principle of proportionality—a principle whose implementation demands complex, contextual, and sophisticated judgment—as a means of exploring and illustrating the issue. The Article explains why the operationalization of the principle of proportionality would present challenges for …

Volume 48 Masthead, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Volume 48 Masthead