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Issue 20

Twentieth Anniversary Reflections, Bonnie Docherty

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

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

Issue 19

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

Labor, Land, and Women's Rights in Africa: Challenges for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women, Rachel Rebouché

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

Issue 18

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

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

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?: The “Wall Decision” and the Troubling Rise of the ICJ as a Human Rights Court, Adam M. Smith

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

Issue 17
U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights

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

Benin’s Constitutional Court: An Institutional Model for Guaranteeing Human Rights , Anna Rotman

Issue 16

Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time Has Come, Mary Robinson

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

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

Religion, Rights, and Terrorism, John Shattuck

The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law, T. Jeremy Gunn

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

Issue 15

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

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

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

Issue 14

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

Issue 13

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

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

Issue 12

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

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