Does the Past Matter? On the Origins of Human Rights
An analysis of competing histories of the origins of international human rights law
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Human Rights
Counteracting the Bias: The Department of Labor’s Unique Opportunity to Combat Human Trafficking
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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, 2011, c. 13 (U.K.)
United Kingdom Adds Barrier to Private Prosecution of Universal Jurisdiction Crimes.
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Organizational Irrationality and Corporate Human Rights Violations
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The problem of how to bring transnational corporations within the
reach of international law has grown increasingly urgent for human
rights scholars and activists. Today, individual corporations can wield
as much power and influence as entire nations. Unfortunately, that
influence is not necessarily wielded for good, as corporations have been
implicated in a broad range of human rights abuses.
General Court of Qatif Sentences Gang-Rape Victim to Prison and Lashings for Violating “Illegal Mingling” Law.
General Court of Qatif Sentences Gang-Rape Victim to Prison and Lashings for Violating "Illegal Mingling" Law.
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The Alien Tort Statute, Forum Shopping, and the Exhaustion of Local Remedies Norm
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Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank Ltd.
Second Circuit Holds that Human Rights Plaintiffs May Plead Aiding and Abetting Theory of Liability.
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The Charming Betsy Canon, Separation of Powers, and Customary International Law
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Constitutions and Capabilities: “Perception” Against Lofty Formalism
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For several centuries, an approach to the foundation of basic political principles that draws its key insights from Aristotle and the ancient Greek and...