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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Colombia’s Victims’ Law: Transitional Justice in a Time of Violent Conflict?
Nicole Summers
Articles
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
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
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
Protocol No. 14 ECHR and Russian Non-Ratification: The Current State of Affairs
Jennifer Reiss
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
Chechnya’s Last Hope? Enforced Disappearances and the European Court of Human Rights
Joseph Barrett
Towards Peace Through Legal Innovation: The Process and the Promise of the 2008 Cluster Munitions Convention
Jessica Corsi
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
Editors’ Note
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
Justice Delayed? Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Padraic J. Glaspy
Paying Lip Service to the Silenced: Juvenile Justice in India
Erika Rickard
Editor’s Note
Twentieth Anniversary Reflections
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
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
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
Editors’ Note
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
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
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
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
Finding the Balance Between Liberty and Security: The Lords’ Decision on Britain’s Anti-Terrorism Act
Alexandra Chirinos
Vo v. France and Fetal Rights: The Decision Not To Decide
Tanya Goldman
Twenty Years Later: Recent Reports Highlight the Continuing Struggle for Sikh Human Rights
Jasmine Marwaha
U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights
Editors’ Note
Articles
Humanitarian Action Under Attack: Reflections on the Iraq War
Nicolas de Torrente
Politicized Humanitarianism: A Response to Nicolas de Torrente
Paul O’Brien
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
Benin’s Constitutional Court: An Institutional Model for Guaranteeing Human Rights
Anna Rotman
Introduction
Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time Has Come
Mary Robinson
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
Religion, Rights, and Terrorism
John Shattuck
The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of ‘Religion’ in International Law
T. Jeremy Gunn
Notes
Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan: An Analysis Under International Law and International Relations
Amjad Mahmood Khan
Hybrid Tribunals: Searching for Justice in East Timor
Suzanne Katzenstein
Articles
Extraordinary Evil, Ordinary Crime: A Framework for Understanding Transitional Justice
Miriam J. Aukerman
Boundaries in the Field of Human Rights
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
A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India
Jaskaran Kaur
Essays: Pedagogy and Human Rights
Teaching Human Rights: Ambivalent Activism, Multiple Discourses, and Lingering Dilemmas
Peter Rosenblum
The University’s Critical Role in the Human Rights Movement
Henry J. Steiner
Articles
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
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
Articles
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
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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