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My Ongoing Debate on Amnesty International’s Report

by Julian Ku

For those not already sick of the topic, I, along with Greg Fox of Wayne State, Andreas Paulus of the Institute for Public International Law in Munich, and others, have been continuing to discuss the AI report in the comments section here.

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