Articles
- Power in Human Rights Advocate and Rightsholder Relationships: Critiques, Reforms, and Challenges
Sarah Knuckey, et al. - International Criminal Justice, Legal Pluralism, and the Margin of Appreciation: Lessons from the European Convention on Human Rights
Frédéric Mégret - Is There a Human Right to Public Education? An Analysis of States’ Obligations in Light of the Increasing Involvement of Private Actors in Education
Jacqueline Mowbray - Impunity Reconsidered: International Law, Domestic Politics, and the Pursuit of Justice
Patricio Nazareno
Note
Articles
- Human Rights Racism
Anna Spain Bradley - Child Migrants and America’s Evolving Immigration Mission
Shani M. King - Constitutionalized Human Rights Law in Mexico
Stephen Meili - In Search of Judicial Legitimacy
Trang (Mae) Nguyen
Notes
- Genocide and Severe Past Persecution
Hayley N. Evans - A Use of Deadly Force
Paras V. Shah
Articles
- The Challenge of Trokosi: Ritual Servitude and the Framework of International Human Rights Law
Michael S. Talbot - Turkey’s Hidden Wars
Kathleen A. Cavanaugh - “Let Them Eat Cake”: Examining United States Retirement Savings Policy through the Lens of International Human Rights Principles
Regina T. Jefferson - Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights: Strengthening Human Rights Promotion and Protection?
Linda C. Reif
Notes
- Rights in the Populist Era, A Comment on Bayev v. Russia (ECtHR): More Didactic Than Persuasive?
Kushtrim Istrefi and Emma Irving - Towards Enforceable Labor Rights in U.S. Free Trade Agreements
Zach Lenox and Andrew Arsht
Articles
- Introduction for Forum on the International Law Commission’s “Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens”
- Human Rights and the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens
Gerald L. Neuman - A Progressive Development, Children’s Rights and the ILC Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens
Jacqueline Bhabha - A New ‘Baxter Paradox’? Some Observations on the ILC Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens
Mathias Forteau - Deportation as a Global Phenomenon: Reflections on the ILC Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens
Daniel Kanstroom - Missed Opportunities in the International Law Commission’s Final Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens
Won Kidane - What Do We Mean When We Talk About Judicial Dialogue?: Reflections Of A Judge Of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor - Ill Fares the Land: Reparations for Housing, Land, and Property Rights Violations in Myanmar
Andrew Dusek - Debts of Democracy: Framing Issues and Reimagining Democracy in Twenty-first Century Argentine Social Movements
Kelsey M. Jost-Creegan
Articles
- A Rational (Unapologetically Pragmatic) Approach to Dealing with the Irrational – The Sentencing of Offenders with Mental Disorders
Mirko Bagaric - Asylum Crisis Italian Style: The Dublin Regulation Collides With European Human Rights Law
Maryellen Fullerton - You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Alternatives to the UN Security Council for Enforcing Nuclear Disarmament and Human Rights
David Koplow - Constitutional Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Analysis of 193 National Constitutions
Amy Raub, Isabel Latz, Aleta Sprague, Michael Ashley Stein, and Jody Heymann
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 - Reinforcing Participatory Governance Through International Human Rights Obligations of Political Parties
Tim Wood
Student Note
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
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
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
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
Articles
- Seeking to Persuade: A Constructive Approach to Human Rights Treaty Interpretation
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
Introduction
- Health Care as a Basic Human Right: Moving from Lip Service to Reality
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Articles
- The Right to Housing Recovery After Natural Disasters
Charles W. Gould - Networked Activism
Molly Beutz Land
Notes
- How the Rome Statute Weakens the International Prohibition on Incitement to Genocide
Thomas E. Davies - Constructing the Right “Not to Be Made a Refugee” at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights
Karl C. Procaccini
Recent Development
Articles
- Closing Argument at Guantanamo: The Torture of Mohammed Jawad
Major David J.R. Frakt - The Responsibility to Refine: The Need for a Security Council Committee on the Responsibility to Protect
Neville F. Dastoor - 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
Note
- Refugees Themselves: The Asylum Case for Parents of Children at Risk of Female Genital Mutilation
Melanie A. Conroy
Recent Developments
Symposium: Human Rights in the United States
- The Course of True Human Rights Progress Never Did Run Smooth
Diane Marie Amann - Jessica Gonzales v. United States: An Emerging Model for Domestic Violence & Human Rights Advocacy in the United States
Caroline Bettinger-L ´opez - The Mythology of a Human Rights Leader: How the United States has Failed Sexual Minorities at Home and Abroad
Stacey L. Sobel
Articles
- The Liberalizing Effects of Tort: How Corporate Complicity Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute Advances Constructive Engagement
Richard L. Herz - Reconciling Complicity in Genocide and Aiding and Abetting Genocide in the Jurisprudence of the United Nations Ad Hoc Tribunals
Grant Dawson, Rachel Boynton
Note
- Babies and Bathwater: Seeking an Appropriate Standard of Review for the Asylum Applications of Former Child Soldiers
Mary-Hunter Morris
Recent Developments
- Recognition of Women’s Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Karla I. Quintana Osuna
Introduction
- A New Human Rights Agenda for the United States: New Realism, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
Bill Richardson
Articles
- Even-handedness and the Politics of Human Rights
Eric Heinze - Reparations, Self-Determination, and the Seventh Generation
Lorie M. Graham
Recent Developments
Twentieth Anniversary Reflections
- Jimmy Carter
- Makau Mutua
- Henry Steiner
- Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
- James A. Goldston
- Martha Nussbaum
- Alex de Waal
- Maria Foscarinis
- Amr Shalakany
- Laurel E. Fletcher
Articles
- The Time Is Now: A Historical Argument for a Cluster Munitions Convention
Bonnie Docherty - Playing by Our Own Rules: How U.S. Marginalization of International Human Rights Law Led to Torture
Jamie Mayerfeld - “Courageous Explorers”?: Education Litigation and Judicial Innovation in China
Thomas E. Kellogg - “Calling in the Troops”: The Uneasy Relationship Among Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Intervention
Karen Engle - With Revolutionary Rage and Rancor: A Preliminary Report on the 1988 Massacre of Iran’s Political Prisoners
Kaveh Shahrooz
Notes
- Prolonged Mental Harm: The Torturous Reasoning Behind a New Standard for Psychological Abuse
Kate Riggs, Richard Blakeley, Jasmine Marwaha - Settling With History: A Hybrid Commission of Inquiry for Israel/Palestine
Zinaida Miller
Recent Developments
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
Arsalan M. Suleman - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Implications for the Geneva Conventions
Regina Fitzpatrick
Articles
- Renewing Our Global Values: A Multilateralism for Peace, Prosperity, and Freedom
Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai - United Nations Reform and Supporting the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies
David Tolbert with Andrew Solomon - Managing Security Risks in Hazardous Missions: The Challenges of Securing United Nations Access to Vulnerable Groups
Claude Bruderlein, Pierre Gassman - Decolonizing Law: Identity Politics, Human Rights, and the United Nations
Darren C. Zook - Extraordinary Renditions: A Human Rights Analysis
David Weissbrodt, Amy Bergquist - 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 - Taking Islamic Law Seriously: INGOs and the Battle for Muslim Hearts and Minds
Naz K. Modirzadeh
Notes
- Labor, Land, and Women’s Rights in Africa: Challenges for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women
Rachel Rebouché
Recent Developments
- Detainee Treatment Act of 2005
Arsalan M. Suleman - The International Criminal Court’s Arrest Warrants and Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army: Renewing the Debate Over Amnesty and Complementarity
H. Abigail Moy - Sardar Sarovar: An Experience Retained?
Komala Ramachandra - Moiwana Village: The Inter-American Court and the “Continuing Violation” Doctrine
Pablo A. Ormachea - The Responsibility To Protect: From Document to Doctrine–But What of Implementation?
Rebecca J. Hamilton
Articles
- Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations
Hilary Charlesworth - 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 - The Definition of “Gender” in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Step Forward or Back for International Criminal Justice?
Valerie Oosterveld - Making the Invisible War Crime Visible: Post-Conflict Justice for Sierra Leone’s Rape Victims
Binaifer Nowrojee - Travel Plans: Border Crossings and the Rights of Transnational Migrants
Ratna Kapur - Public Enemy Number Two?: Rising Crime and Human Rights Advocacy in Transitional Societies
James Cavallaro, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou - Humanitarian Safeguards in Economic Sanctions Regimes: A Call for Automatic Suspension Clauses, Periodic Monitoring, and Follow-Up Assessment of Long-Term Effects
Robin Geiss
Notes
- Ingando Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation and Political Indoctrination in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Chi Mgbako - Sending Countries and the Rights of Women Migrant Workers: The Case of Guatemala
Theresa Lawson
Recent Developments
U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights
Articles
- Humanitarian Action Under Attack: Reflections on the Iraq War
Nicolas de Torrente - Politicized Humanitarianism: A Response to Nicolas de Torrente
Paul O’Brien - 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 - From Berlin to Bonn to Baghdad: A Space for Infinite Justice
Vasuki Nesiah - Fighting the Axis of Illness: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy
David P. Fidler - The Human Right to Development: Between Rhetoric and Reality
Stephen Marks - Upsetting Checks and Balances: The Bush Administration’s Efforts To Limit Human Rights Litigation
Beth Stephens - Here Interest Meets Humanity: How To End the War and Support Reconstruction in Liberia, and the Case for Modest American Leadership
Jamie O’Connell - Human Rights and National Security: The Strategic Connection
William W. Burke-White
Note
Introduction
Articles
- Evaluating the Role of the International Criminal Court as a Legal Response to Terrorism
Richard J. Goldstone, Janine Simpson - The Forgotten Crucible: The Latin American Influence on the Universal Human Rights Idea
Mary Ann Glendon - Overlooked Danger: The Security and Rights Implications of Hindu Nationalism in India
Smita Narula
Human Rights in Transition
- Transitional Justice Genealogy
Ruti G. Teitel - The Disempowerment of Human Rights–Based Justice in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
David Marshall, Shelley Inglis - Prosecutions, Development, and Justice: The Trial of Hissein Habré
Dustin N. Sharp
Conference: Religion, Democracy, & Human Rights
- Introduction
- Religion, Rights, and Terrorism
John Shattuck - The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of ‘Religion’ in International Law
T. Jeremy Gunn
Notes
Articles
- The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the “Native” Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics
Ratna Kapur - Extraordinary Evil, Ordinary Crime: A Framework for Understanding Transitional Justice
Miriam J. Aukerman
Boundaries in the Field of Human Rights
- Introduction
- The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?
David Kennedy - Author! Author!: A Response to David Kennedy
Hilary Charlesworth - Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm
Deborah E. Anker - Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights
Jacqueline Bhabha - The Key Human Rights Challenge: Developing Enforcement Mechanisms
Terry Collingsworth - The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability
Dana L. Clark - Rhetoric and Reality: Human Rights and the World Bank
Korinna Horta
Notes
- The Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina v. The Republika Srpska: Human Rights in a Multi-Ethnic Bosnia
Brett Dakin - A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India
Jaskaran Kaur
Essays: Pedagogy and Human Rights
Articles
- The Protection of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflict: The Practice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Hirad Abtahi - 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. - The International Law of Torture: From Universal Proscription to Effective Application and Enforcement
Winston P. Nagan, Lucie Atkins - Righting Child Custody Wrongs: The Children of the “Disappeared” in Argentina
Laura Oren - To Lend or Not To Lend: Oil, Human Rights, and the World Bank’s Internal Contradictions
Genoveva Hernández Uriz - Application in Tibet of the Principles on Human Rights and the Environment
Laura S. Ziemer
Book Review
Articles
- Building Democratic Institutions: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Good Governance and Human Rights Protection
Linda C. Reif - 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 - Incorporative Discourse in Federal Indian Law: Negotiating Tribal Sovereignty Through the Lens of Native American Literature
N. Bruce Duthu - Bail Reform in Ukraine: Transplanting Western Legal Concepts to Post-Soviet Legal Systems
Christopher Lehmann - Transformed Pursuits: The Quest for Equality in Globalized Markets
Kerry Rittich
Notes
- Defamation Law: Positive Jurisprudence
Bonnie Docherty - Conflict in the Zimbabwean Courts: Women’s Rights and Indigenous Self-Determination in Magaya v. Magaya
David M. Bigge & Amélie von Briesen
Book Review
- Judicial Protection of Human Rights: Myth or Reality? (Mark Gibney & Stanislaw Frankowski eds.)
Reviewed by Lawrence Friedman
Articles
- Civil Liability for the Commission of International Crimes as an Alternative to Criminal Prosecution
John F. Murphy - Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global Comparative and International Legal Analysis
Siegfried Wiessner - The Protection of Children in Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Processes
Ilene Cohn - Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: A Proposal for Ending the Unnecessary Detention of Asylum Seekers
Michele R. Pistone - Transnational State Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights
Mark Gibney, Katarina Tomaševski, & Jens Vedsted-Hansen - Buraku Mondai in Japan: Historical and Modern Perspectives and Directions for the Future
Emily A. Su-lan Reber
Recent Development
- The Best-Laid Plans: Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in the Courtroom and on the Ground
Laura Palmer & Cristina Posa - A Response to the Critics
Peter H. Schuck
Book Reviews
- Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (Nadim N. Rouhana)
Reviewed by Eyal Benvenisti - The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Paul Gordon Lauren)
Reviewed by David Tan
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