Child pirates: Rehabilitation, reintegration, and accountability.
by Drumbl, Mark A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Case Western Reserve Journal of International law. 46:235-278. It has been estimated that approximately one-third of captured pirates are minors, that is, persons under the age of eighteen. This article explores issues of accountability, reintegration, deterrence and...
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Partners in the search for truth:The Truth Commission and Special Court.
by Schabas, William A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Studies in Transnational Legal Policy. 45:155-169. The internal conflict ended in 1999 with a tendentious peace agreement, premised on an amnesty associated with the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC). The commission was “to address impunity,...
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Sectarianism and transitional justice in Syria: Resisting international trials.
by Schank, Alex
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Georgetown Journal of International Law. 45:557-587. Speculation has swarmed regarding prospects for transitional justice in Syria, and international actors have been particularly insistent on the need for international criminal courts to hold the Asad regime and opposition...
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Lawyers’ view of decision-making in child protection matters: The tension between adversarialism and collaborative approaches.
by Walsh, Tamara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Monash University Law Review. 38(2):181-211. Outcomes in child protection cases impact substantially on children and families. Decisions in child protection matters must, therefore, be made with due caution and sensitivity. In order for the best outcomes to be achieved for...
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Using storytelling to achieve better sequel to foster care better than delinquency.
by Greenfield Pearl, Lisa Beth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change. 37:353-589. California’s child welfare system is failing its mandate to serve its neediest children. A significant portion of the 60,000 foster children that California cares for are dually involved with the dependency and...
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The truth about truth commissions: Why they do not function optimally in post-conflict societies.
by Sirleaf, Matiangai V.S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Cardozo Law Review. 35:2263-2348. Almost forty years after the first truth commission convened and more than sixty-seven others have been employed, there is little clarity on how they contribute to their stated objectives and in which transitional contexts they succeed or fail....
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Compensating the adult victim of childhood: From criminal to constitutional compensation.
by Ezioni, Limor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Women’s Rights Law Reporter. 34(4):303-357. The Israeli court system hears what seems to be an endless stream of domestic-abuse cases, including those dealing with the heinous crime of incest. While every case is shocking, the most painful are those brought by women who...
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Using local culture to further the implementation of international rights: The receptor approach.
by Zwart, Tom
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Human Rights Quarterly. 34:546-569. States are free to choose their own means for implementing international human rights obligations. Western states usually rely on legal means, in particular legally enforceable individual rights. However, law does not enjoy a monopoly. The...
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Genocide in Rwanda, state responsibility to prosecute or extradite, and nonimmunity for heads of State and other public officials.
by Paust, Jordan J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Houston Journal of International Law. 34(1):57-85. Rwanda’s significant dilemma primarily involved a lack of adequate time and resources to prosecute numerous persons who had been reasonably accused in competent and regularly constituted judicial tribunals affording due...
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Apologies in the marketplace.
by Vinayagamoorthy, K.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Pace Law Review. 33(3):1081-1145. This Article argues that apologies have the potential to play important roles in the marketplace. It argues that a public apology should not be reserved only for transgressions that we customarily identify as “moral wrongs.” Instead,...
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Community-based child care in Ethiopia vs. the individual centered model in the United States: A closer examination of family group decision making in child placement.
by Gilbert, Amy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Children’s Legal Rights Journal. 33:348-376. This Article examines culturally sensitive practices to community-based care, and compares the role of kinship care as the norm among the various ethnic groups of Ethiopia to the emergence of the child welfare system in the...
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Remembrance and acknowledgement as necessary conditions of (re)conciliation.
by Biletzki, Anat
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Quinnipiac Law Review. 32:601-619. My aim in this type of work has always been to address the issue of reconciliation and, using the experience, the insights, and the convolutions that go with a place and time, think in a more nuanced fashion of what reconciliation is and what...
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Dr. King’s speech: Surveying the landscape of law and justice in the speeches, sermons, and writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Waterhouse, Carlton
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Law and Inequality. 30:91-124. The belief that an essential relationship exists between law and justice has been recognized since the time of the ancient Greeks. In fact, the concept extends well beyond Western philosophy and jurisprudence. Distinct from other aspects of...
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Tribal environmental programs: Providing meaningful invovlement and fair treatment.
by Wolfley, Jeanette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of Environmental Law and LItigation. 29:389-442. Tribal governments are developing and implementing federally authorized and/or approved tribal environmental programs in the areas of water quality, air quality, and solid waste. As part of this federal delegation process...
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The rights of victims of past atrocities in Spain: Reparation without truth and justice?
by Garcia Blesa, Juan J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Connecticut Journal of International Law. 29:227-254. This paper analyzes the current legal and political controversies raised by the tens of thousands of unsolved cases of enforced disappearance that occurred in Spain during the Civil War in light of the international standards...
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