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21 Jul

meaning to the maxim justice delayed is justice denied. I have just returned from visiting the courts of Kenya in Nairobi in conjunction with my training program with IJM Office in Kenya. During my time with IJM, I was briefed on cases in which it took years for criminal defendants to receive basic judicial process. For example, in one disturbing case the defendant was framed by a corrupt policeman. The officer demanded a bribe that the defendant could not pay, so in retaliation the officer falsely accused the defendant of...
21.07.06 | |

25 Aug

...UN’s World Food Programme cutting their food rations, and with the deteriorating security situation inside the camps, many Rohingya find themselves in a dire situation with impunity being but one of many pressing concerns. Through its offices in Cox’s Bazar, Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) provides legal assistance and support to Rohingya survivors in these refugee camps. Having been deported en masse to Bangladesh, and without a fair legal remedy available within Myanmar, Rohingya survivors are forced to rely on pathways for justice outside of Myanmar. A variety of efforts on...
25.08.23 | |

29 Jun

as a whole. She also emphasised that many participating victims (of which there are now 600) believe that justice and accountability for historic crimes in Darfur are central to the creation of lasting peace in Sudan. Therefore, she suggested that the ICC consider continuing gathering evidence during the current conflict for use in future prosecutions, both as a way to deter further violations and to give those affected hope that perpetrators of the current violence will be brought to justice.  Highlights of Testimonies of Participating Victims  Voices of participating victims...
29.06.23 | |

09 Apr

managing the potential negative consequences of medical tourism. Cohen gives an overview of canonical accounts of global justice and their implications for state responsibility, helpfully demonstrating that different accounts of justice will provide different answers to questions of responsibility. In this way, Cohen’s article makes the case for continued research on theories of global justice and their implications for global health practices like medical tourism. Cohen’s article faces a limitation shared by others conducting research on the impacts of medical tourism, a global health practice that, while not new, has...
09.04.12 | |

13 Mar

...traditional justice, which is more compensatory than a retributive system,” he said on a visit to London. “That is what we have agreed at the request of the local community. They have been mainly tormenting people in one area and it is that community which asked us to use traditional justice.” It is, if course, tempting to reply to this bait-and-switch by saying “so what?” If ordinary Ugandans believe that peace through traditional justice is more important than punishing the LRA for its many crimes, isn’t that their right? Maybe...
13.03.08 | |

28 Jul

We are pleased to host this week a discussion of Benjamin Wittes’ book Law and the Long War. Ben’s book is a comprehensive analysis of how September 11th did–and did not–change National Security Law, the disparate group of legal mechanisms related to counter-terrorism. It is also about what the role of law in counter-terrorism should be. It is a book that is sure to ignite debate from all around. As Ben writes: [T]his is a critique of the Bush administration, whose consistent — sometimes mindless — aggressiveness and fixation on...
28.07.08 | |

24 Oct

We’re pleased this week to host a discussion of Ruti Teitel’s new book, Humanity’s Law, just out from Oxford University Press. Ruti is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, where she directs the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy. She is also Visiting Professor, London School of Economics. The book is a major contribution to understanding the transformed baselines of international law, an integrated account of how international law has reoriented to humanity. The book describes the central transformations of the post-Cold War...
24.10.11 | |

26 Mar

...Act, etc. They also found that the number of responses to a fictitious issue was affected by the presence of a "don’t know" response category. Providing a "don't know" choice significantly reduced the number of meaningless responses." Friedman, H.H. & Amoo, T. (Winter, 1999) Rating the Rating Scales, Journal of Marketing Management, Vol. 9:3, 114-123. Retrieved from http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/economic/friedman/rateratingscales.htm Akiva In other words, Dill's methodological approach forced an appearance of certainty on her results that simply may not exist in the real world. Indeed, it would be far more meaningful to...
26.03.15 | |

02 Oct

argument that I think are worth highlighting. One is the prominent role played for several Justices by the assumption that piracy was intended to be within the scope of the ATS. Justice Breyer, for example, posited (at p. 26) that an analogy to piracy supports extending a cause of action to overseas human rights violations, observing that “the question to me is who are today’s pirates? And if Hitler isn’t a pirate, who is?” And Justices Scalia (p. 24-25), Chief Justice Roberts (p. 25), Justice Sotomayor (p. 33), and Justice...
02.10.12 | |

10 Jan

presupposes transnational justice. [....] Even states with exemplary legal systems for the domestic protection of human rights have a moral obligation, grounded in the Natural Duty of Justice, to support a global legal system that includes principles of transnational justice as far as these are required for normativized, justice-based practice of state recognition, even if that system contributes nothing more to the protection of human rights within their own borders. More generally, even the most just states ought to support a regime of transnational justice that encourages less just states...
10.01.07 | |

22 Jul

...of Harvard and Eric Posner of U.Chicago, both who are not traditional liberal internationalists. But citing their book is simply not any crazier than, say, citing Anne Marie Slaughter’s recent book A New World Order, which can be viewed as controversial in its own right. Peggy McGuinness Julian--Good to hear from you from parts beyond. I agree with many of your comments, and I cannot speak for Oona Hathaway, but I assume when she calls the Goldsmith/Posner book "controversial," she is revealing her own disagreement with either its premises or...
22.07.05 | |

30 Mar

recent role on the UN special panel promoting access to justice for the poor. (For those who missed Jeffrey Toobin’s excellent profile of Justice Kennedy the internationalist in the New Yorker last fall, here is the link.) So why Darfur? Kennedy was careful not to make explicit criticisms of the US government’s policies toward Darfur. And when an audience member asked whether the use of military force under the rubric of humanitarian intervention would be a lawful in response to genocide, he replied simply that he would need to think...
30.03.06 | |