Volume 29, Spring 2016
ARTICLES
Asylum Crisis Italian Style: The Dublin Regulation Collides With European Human Rights Law
Maryellen Fullerton
Constitutional Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Analysis of 193 National Constitutions
Amy Raub, Isabel Latz, Aleta Sprague, Michael Ashley Stein, and Jody Heymann
Volume 28
ARTICLES
Lazo-Majano: Alive, Well, and Thriving at Twenty-Seven
Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
Strategic Compliance in the Shadow of Transnational Anti-Trafficking Law
Daphna Hacker
Human Rights in the Digital Age: The European Court of Justice Ruling in the Data Retention Case and Its Lessons for Privacy and Surveillance in the United States
Federico Fabbrini
Transforming Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Principles and Practice
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Catherine O’Rourke, Aisling Swaine
STUDENT NOTE
Intersectionality and International Law: Recognizing Complex Identities on the Global Stage
Aisha Nicole Davis
Volume 27, Issue 1
ARTICLES
Reflections on the Question of When, if Ever, Violence Is Justified in Struggles for Political or Social Change
Susan H. Farbstein
Considering Just-World Thinking in Counterterrorism Cases: Miscarriages of Justice in Northern Ireland
Marny A. Requa
Reconciling Socioeconomic Rights and Directive Principles with a Fundamental Law of Reason in Ghana and Nigeria
Atudiwe P. Atupare
Human Rights as a Larger Loyalty: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Vietnam
John Gillespie
Grappling at the Grassroots: Access to Justice in India’s Lower Tier
Jayanth K. Krishnan, Shirish N. Kavadi, Azima Girach, Dhanaji Khupkar, Kalindi Kokal, Satyajeet Mazumdar, Nupur, Gayatri Panday, Aatreyee Sen, Aqseer Sodhi, & Bharati Takale Shukla
If a Constitution Is Easy to Amend, Can Judges Be Less Restrained? Rights, Social Change, and Proposition 8
Conor O’Mahony
Volume 26, Issue 1
ARTICLES
- On the Morality and Legality of Borders: Border Policies and Asylum Seekers
Tally Kritzman-Amir and Thomas Spijkerboer - The Democracy to Which We Are Entitled: Human Rights and the Problem of Money in Politics
Timothy K. Kuhner - Article 43 of the Arab Charter on Human Rights: Reconciling National, Regional and International Standards
Mohamed Y. Mattar - Interrogating the Peripheries: The Preoccupation of Fourth Generation Transitional Justice
Dustin N. Sharp - The Comparative Fortunes of the Right to Health: Two Tales of Justiciability in Colombia and South Africa
Katharine G. Young & Julieta Lemaitre
NOTE
- The Other Euro Crisis: Rights Violations Under the Common European Asylum System and the Unraveling of EU Solidarity
Lillian M. Langford
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Volume 25, Issue 1
ARTICLES
- Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families
Shani M. King - A Further Dimension to the Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human Rights? Recent Developments Concerning the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Helen Quane - From Prevention to Facilitation? Suicide in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR in the Light of the Recent Haas v. Switzerland Judgment
Daniel Rietiker - Born in the Americas: Birthright Citizenship and Human Rights
Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez
NOTE
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Volume 24, Issue 1
ARTICLES
- A “Bilingual” Approach to Language Rights: How Dialogue Between U.S. and International Human Rights Law May Improve the Language Rights Framework
Denise Gilman - Balancing Rights or Building Rights? Reconciling the Right to Use Customary Systems of Law with Competing Human Rights in Pursuit of Indigenous Sovereignty
Robin Perry - The Role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Interpreting and Developing International Humanitarian Law
David Weissbrodt
Joseph C. Hansen
Nathaniel H. Nesbitt - Corporate Accountability to Human Rights: The Case of the Gaza Strip
Dana Weiss
Ronen Shamir
NOTE
- The Power of Social Media in Developing Nations: New Tools for Closing the Global Digital Divide and Beyond
Amir Hatem Ali
RECENT DEVELOPMENT
- Ladies in White: The Peaceful March Against Repression in Cuba and Online
Alissa Del Riego
Adrianna C. Rodriguez
Issue 1, Volume 23
ARTICLES
- Seeking to Persuade: A Constructive Approach to Human Rights Treaty Interpretation
By John Tobin - The Power of the European Court of Human Rights to Order Specific Non-Monetary Relief: a Critical Appraisal from a Right to Health Perspective
Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton - Psychiatry and Hunger Strikes
Marlynn Wei
Rebecca W. Brendel - Penetrating the Silence in Sierra Leone: A Blueprint for the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation
Chi Mgbako
Meghna Saxena
Anna Cave
Nasim Farjad
Helen Shin - Securing Widows’ Sepulchral Rights Through the Nigerian Constitution
Remigius N Nwabueze - The Past and Present of Corporate Complicity: Financing the Argentinean Dictatorship
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Veerle Opgenhaffen
NOTES
- Redundant Restriction: The U.K.’s Offense of Glorifying Terrorism
S. Chehani Ekaratne
RECENT DEVELOPMENT
Issue 2, Volume 22
INTRODUCTION
- Health Care as a Basic Human Right: Moving from Lip Service to Reality
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
View Article
ARTICLES
- The Right to Housing Recovery After Natural Disasters
Charles W. Gould
View Article - Networked Activism
Molly Beutz Land
View Article
NOTES
- How the Rome Statute Weakens the International Prohibition on Incitement to Genocide
Thomas E. Davies
View Article - Constructing the Right “Not to Be Made a Refugee” at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights
Karl C. Procaccini
View Article
RECENT DEVELOPMENT
- Protocol No. 14 ECHR and Russian Non-Ratification: The Current State of Affairs
Jennifer Reiss
View Article
BOOK NOTES
Issue 1, Volume 22, 2008
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| Closing Argument at Guantanamo: The Torture of Mohammed Jawad Major David J.R. Frakt |
1 | |
| The Responsibility to Refine: The Need for a Security Council Committee on the Responsibility to Protect Neville F. Dastoor |
25 | |
| Walking the Long Road in Solidarity and Hope: A Case Study of the “Comfort Women” Movement’s Deployment of Human Rights Discourse Cheah Wui Ling |
63 | |
| Note | ||
| Refugees Themselves: The Asylum Case for Parents of Children at Risk of Female Genital Mutilation Melanie A. Conroy |
109 | |
| Recent Developments | ||
| Chechnya’s Last Hope? Enforced Disappearances and the European Court of Human Rights Joseph Barrett |
133 | |
| Towards Peace Through Legal Innovation: The Process and the Promise of the 2008 Cluster Munitions Convention Jessica Corsi |
145 | |
| Book Notes | 159 | |
| * The free reader for pdf format is available from www.adobe.com | ||
Issue 2, Volume 21, 2008
| SYMPOSIUM: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES | ||
| The Course of True Human Rights Progress Never Did Run Smooth Diane Marie Amann |
171 | |
| Jessica Gonzales v. United States: An Emerging Model for Domestic Violence & Human Rights Advocacy in the United States Caroline Bettinger-L ´opez |
183 | |
| The Mythology of a Human Rights Leader: How the United States has Failed Sexual Minorities at Home and Abroad Stacey L. Sobel |
197 | |
| ARTICLES | ||
| The Liberalizing Effects of Tort: How Corporate Complicity Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute Advances Constructive Engagement Richard L. Herz |
207 | |
| Reconciling Complicity in Genocide and Aiding and Abetting Genocide in the Jurisprudence of the United Nations Ad Hoc Tribunals Grant Dawson Rachel Boynton |
241 | |
| NOTE | ||
| Babies and Bathwater: Seeking an Appropriate Standard of Review for the Asylum Applications of Former Child Soldiers Mary-Hunter Morris |
281 | |
| RECENT DEVELOPMENTS | ||
| Recognition of Women’s Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Karla I. Quintana Osuna |
301 | |
| BOOK NOTES | 313 | |
| * The free reader for pdf format is available from www.adobe.com | ||
Issue 1 – Volume 21 – 2008
| Editors’ Note | ||
| A New Human Rights Agenda for the United States: New Realism, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law Bill Richardson |
1 | |
| Articles | ||
| Even-handedness and the Politics of Human Rights Eric Heinze |
7 | |
| Reparations, Self-Determination, and the Seventh Generation Lorie M. Graham |
141 | |
| Note: | ||
| Limiting Sovereign Immunity in the Age of Human Rights Limiting Sovereign Immunity in the Age of Human Rights |
105 | |
| Recent Developments: | ||
| Justice Delayed? Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Padraic J. Glaspy | 143 | |
| Paying Lip Service to the Silenced: Juvenile Justice in India Erika Rickard |
155 | |
| Book Note | 167 | |
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Volume 19 – 2006
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| Renewing Our Global Values: A Multilateralism for Peace, Prosperity, and Freedom Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai |
1 | |
| United Nations Reform and Supporting the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies David Tolbert with Andrew Solomon |
29 | |
| Managing Security Risks in Hazardous Missions: The Challenges of Securing United Nations Access to Vulnerable Groups Claude Bruderlein Pierre Gassman |
63 | |
| Decolonizing Law: Identity Politics, Human Rights, and the United Nations Darren C. Zook |
95 | |
| Extraordinary Renditions: A Human Rights Analysis David Weissbrodt Amy Bergquist |
123 | |
| Suffer the Children? A Call for United States Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Lainie Rutkow Joshua T. Lozman |
161 | |
| Taking Islamic Law Seriously: INGOs and the Battle for Muslim Hearts and Minds Naz K. Modirzadeh |
191 | |
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| Labor, Land, and Women’s Rights in Africa: Challenges for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women Rachel Rebouché |
235 | |
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| Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 Arsalan M. Suleman |
257 | |
| The International Criminal Court’s Arrest Warrants and Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army: Renewing the Debate Over Amnesty and Complementarity H. Abigail Moy |
267 | |
| Sardar Sarovar: An Experience Retained? Komala Ramachandra |
275 | |
| Moiwana Village: The Inter-American Court and the “Continuing Violation” Doctrine Pablo A. Ormachea |
283 | |
| The Responsibility To Protect: From Document to Doctrine–But What of Implementation? Rebecca J. Hamilton |
289 | |
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Harvard Human Rights Journal / Vol. 19, Spring 2006
Harvard Human Rights Journal / Vol. 19, Spring 2006
Volume 18 – 2005
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| Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations Hilary Charlesworth |
1 | |
| Inequality Before the Law: Holding States Accountable for Sex Discriminatory Laws Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Through the Beijing Platform for Action Jessica Neuwirth |
19 | |
| The Definition of “Gender” in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Step Forward or Back for International Criminal Justice? Valerie Oosterveld |
55 | |
| Making the Invisible War Crime Visible: Post-Conflict Justice for Sierra Leone’s Rape Victims Binaifer Nowrojee |
85 | |
| Travel Plans: Border Crossings and the Rights of Transnational Migrants Ratna Kapur |
107 | |
| Public Enemy Number Two?: Rising Crime and Human Rights Advocacy in Transitional Societies James Cavallaro Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou |
139 | |
| Humanitarian Safeguards in Economic Sanctions Regimes: A Call for Automatic Suspension Clauses, Periodic Monitoring, and Follow-Up Assessment of Long-Term Effects Robin Geiss |
167 | |
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| Ingando Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation and Political Indoctrination in Post-Genocide Rwanda Chi Mgbako |
201 | |
| Sending Countries and the Rights of Women Migrant Workers: The Case of Guatemala Theresa Lawson |
225 | |
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| Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?: The “Wall Decision” and the Troubling Rise of the ICJ as a Human Rights Court Adam M. Smith |
251 | |
| Finding the Balance Between Liberty and Security: The Lords’ Decision on Britain’s Anti-Terrorism Act Alexandra Chirinos |
265 | |
| Vo v. France and Fetal Rights: The Decision Not To Decide Tanya Goldman |
277 | |
| Twenty Years Later: Recent Reports Highlight the Continuing Struggle for Sikh Human Rights Jasmine Marwaha |
283 | |
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289 | |
| * The free reader for pdf format is available from www.adobe.com | ||
Copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Harvard Human Rights Journal / Vol. 18, Spring 2005
Volume 17 – 2004
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U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights |
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| Humanitarian Action Under Attack: Reflections on the Iraq War Nicolas de Torrente |
1 | |
| Politicized Humanitarianism: A Response to Nicolas de Torrente Paul O’Brien |
31 | |
| Humanitarian Inviolability in Crisis: The Meaning of Impartiality and Neutrality for U.N. and NGO Agencies Following the 2003–2004 Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Kenneth Anderson |
41 | |
| From Berlin to Bonn to Baghdad: A Space for Infinite Justice Vasuki Nesiah |
75 | |
| Fighting the Axis of Illness: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy David P. Fidler |
99 | |
| The Human Right to Development: Between Rhetoric and Reality Stephen Marks |
137 | |
| Upsetting Checks and Balances: The Bush Administration’s Efforts To Limit Human Rights Litigation Beth Stephens |
169 | |
| Here Interest Meets Humanity: How To End the War and Support Reconstruction in Liberia, and the Case for Modest American Leadership Jamie O’Connell |
207 | |
| Human Rights and National Security: The Strategic Connection William W. Burke-White |
249 | |
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| Benin’s Constitutional Court: An Institutional Model for Guaranteeing Human Rights Anna Rotman |
281 | |
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315 | |
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Volume 16 – 2003
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| Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time Has Come Mary Robinson |
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| Evaluating the Role of the International Criminal Court as a Legal Response to Terrorism Richard J. Goldstone Janine Simpson |
13 | |
| The Forgotten Crucible: The Latin American Influence on the Universal Human Rights Idea Mary Ann Glendon |
27 | |
| Overlooked Danger: The Security and Rights Implications of Hindu Nationalism in India Smita Narula |
41 | |
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| Transitional Justice Genealogy Ruti G. Teitel |
69 | |
| The Disempowerment of Human Rights–Based Justice in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo David Marshall Shelley Inglis |
95 | |
| Prosecutions, Development, and Justice: The Trial of Hissein Habré Dustin N. Sharp |
147 | |
| Introduction | 179 | |
| Religion, Rights, and Terrorism John Shattuck |
183 | |
| The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law T. Jeremy Gunn |
189 | |
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| Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan: An Analysis Under International Law and International Relations Amjad Mahmood Khan |
217 | |
| Hybrid Tribunals: Searching for Justice in East Timor Suzanne Katzenstein |
245 | |
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Book Notes |
279 | |
| * The free reader for pdf format is available from www.adobe.com | ||
Volume 15 – 2002
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| The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the “Native” Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics Ratna Kapur |
1 |
| Extraordinary Evil, Ordinary Crime: A Framework for Understanding Transitional Justice Miriam J. Aukerman |
39 |
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Boundaries in the Field of Human Rights |
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| Introduction | 99 |
| The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? David Kennedy |
101 |
| Author! Author!: A Response to David Kennedy Hilary Charlesworth |
127 |
| Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm Deborah E. Anker |
133 |
| Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights Jacqueline Bhabha |
155 |
| The Key Human Rights Challenge: Developing Enforcement Mechanisms Terry Collingsworth |
183 |
| The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability Dana L. Clark |
205 |
| Rhetoric and Reality: Human Rights and the World Bank Korinna Horta |
227 |
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Notes |
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| The Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina v. The Republika Srpska: Human Rights in a Multi-Ethnic Bosnia Brett Dakin |
245 |
| A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India Jaskaran Kaur |
269 |
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Essays: Pedagogy and Human Rights |
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| Teaching Human Rights: Ambivalent Activism, Multiple Discourses, and Lingering Dilemmas Peter Rosenblum |
301 |
| The University’s Critical Role in the Human Rights Movement Henry J. Steiner |
317 |
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Book Notes |
329 |
Volume 14 – 2001
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| The Protection of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflict: The Practice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Hirad Abtahi |
1 |
| The Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights over Lands and Natural Resources Under the Inter-American Human Rights System S. James Anaya Robert A. Williams, Jr. |
33 |
| The International Law of Torture: From Universal Proscription to Effective Application and Enforcement Winston P. Nagan Lucie Atkins |
87 |
| Righting Child Custody Wrongs: The Children of the “Disappeared” in Argentina Laura Oren |
123 |
| To Lend or Not To Lend: Oil, Human Rights, and the World Bank’s Internal Contradictions Genoveva Hernández Uriz |
197 |
| Application in Tibet of the Principles on Human Rights and the Environment Laura S. Ziemer |
233 |
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Book Review |
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| On the Edge of Greatness: The Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights (A.J. Hobbins ed.) Reviewed by Mary Ann Glendon |
277 |
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Book Notes |
285 |
Acknowledgements: Special thanks for their help to Michael Cicone, Susan Culhane, Rob Dobson, Lillian Gagliardi, Gail Gilberg, Peter Rosenblum, Henry Steiner, and Sandra Sullivan.
Volume 13 – 2000
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| Building Democratic Institutions: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Good Governance and Human Rights Protection Linda C. Reif |
1 |
| Human Rights and Wrongs in Our Own Backyard: Incorporating International Human Rights Protections Under Domestic Civil Rights Law—A Case Study of Women in United States Prisons Martin A. Geer |
71 |
| Incorporative Discourse in Federal Indian Law: Negotiating Tribal Sovereignty Through the Lens of Native American Literature N. Bruce Duthu |
141 |
| Bail Reform in Ukraine: Transplanting Western Legal Concepts to Post-Soviet Legal Systems Christopher Lehmann |
191 |
| Transformed Pursuits: The Quest for Equality in Globalized Markets Kerry Rittich |
231 |
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| Defamation Law: Positive Jurisprudence Bonnie Docherty |
263 |
| Conflict in the Zimbabwean Courts: Women’s Rights and Indigenous Self-Determination in Magaya v. Magaya David M. Bigge & Amélie von Briesen |
289 |
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Book Review |
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| Judicial Protection of Human Rights: Myth or Reality? (Mark Gibney & Stanislaw Frankowski eds.) Reviewed by Lawrence Friedman |
315 |
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Book Notes |
321 |
Acknowledgements: Special thanks for their help to Michael Cicone, Susan Culhane, Rob Dobson, Lillian Gagliardi, Christine Markowski, Peter Rosenblum, Henry Steiner, and Sandra Sullivan.
Volume 12 – 1999
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Articles |
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| Civil Liability for the Commission of International Crimes as an Alternative to Criminal Prosecution John F. Murphy |
1 |
| Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global Comparative and International Legal Analysis Siegfried Wiessner |
57 |
| The Protection of Children in Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Processes Ilene Cohn |
129 |
| Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: A Proposal for Ending the Unnecessary Detention of Asylum Seekers Michele R. Pistone |
197 |
| Transnational State Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights Mark Gibney, Katarina Tomaševski, & Jens Vedsted-Hansen |
267 |
| Buraku Mondai in Japan: Historical and Modern Perspectives and Directions for the Future Emily A. Su-lan Reber |
297 |
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Recent Development |
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| The Best-Laid Plans: Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in the Courtroom and on the Ground Laura Palmer & Cristina Posa |
361 |
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A Response to the Critics |
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| Peter H. Schuck | 385 |
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Book Reviews |
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| Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (Nadim N. Rouhana) Reviewed by Eyal Benvenisti |
389 |
| The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Paul Gordon Lauren) Reviewed by David Tan |
393 |
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Book Notes |
399 |