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the Court Able to Curb Political Prosecutions? , 37 Md. J KATE LEISNER† I. INTRODUCTION America’s disastrous war in Afghanistan may be over, but the path toward accountability has just begun. In ... question—can the Court restrain a political prosecutor? Decades before the Afghanistan investigation, the drafters of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute) anticipated
contested at a political level: the ?hockey stick? graph???showing how high recent temperatures are compared with the past 2,000?years???is perhaps an exemplar. Clearly there is no simple catch-all answer ... ambiguities would seem to leave the door open to delay and debate over any new environmental legislation in the US, something that is particularly challenging in a political environment starting from the
, Robert Gilpin, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. His treatise fits squarely into the synthesis of political and economic study of the international ... recently written: "There can be no question that the study of international political economy has received insufficient attention in both economics and political science. ' S Yet, this gap has been narrowed
thrust and speed of privatization. See FORREST, supra note 63 at 224. 124. A TCPC employee explained the operating philosophy in the following manner. Because of the political nature of the ... lawyer on a decade of the privatization phenomenon across the globe,4 and explores its implications for the quest for economic growth and stable liberal political order in sub-Saharan Africa. My primary
arena.3 The Universal Declaration explicitly includes political rights among the human rights it seeks to * Marbury Research Professor of Law and Founding Director, Women, Leadership & Equality Program
Amendment's protection of speech. To do this, the paper will examine three primary justifications of the First Amendment: individual liberty, the marketplace of ideas, and political participation. The paper ... variation of it at the forefront of political philosophy.53 Mill's arguments, while certainly not adopted wholesale by the judiciary, are central to the roots of modem American First Amendment law. The
US) or A PUSH FOR POLITICAL WILL RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Emma Marris 0 1 2 0 MANAGEMENT OFFICE Publishing Director: David Swinbanks Publisher: Jason Wilde Managing Production Editor: Donald McDonald Web ... , so too with climate change: only with political will can we hope for effective POLICY WATCH action to be taken to meet our past and future commitments. 81 Atmospheric science Tibetan dust bowl 88
multitude of identities and to respect the different ways Indigenous peoples straddle political, cultural, and personal identities no matter how he, she, or they classify themselves. but the bill never made ... , reparations, and prosecutions, the hope is to create a more just and secure political order.11 While the United States has supported transitional justice efforts in other countries,12 it has never sponsored a
trajectory of a ―political philosophy‖ born out of the conviction that it ―was justified in light of reason and was, therefore, beyond the reach of historical change . . . .‖15 What this leads to, for ... . For many, violence, human rights violations on the body, has a rapacious capacity to devour ―the political.‖ Violence is a thing apart, an uncontrolled and uncontrollable phenomenon that destroys the
raised in the context of the prosecutions of the Arizona sanctuary workers). MD. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & TRADE est in political philosophy, is problematic, however, given the complexity of the ... last decade. The book also raises, but fails to answer completely, the moral question: "What do we owe people who are not a part of our political communities?" A satisfactory answer to this question, one
idea of allembracing unity. See Fairbank, supra note 3, at 2. This traditional world outlook was further legitimized by Confucianist political philosophy that advocated peace and harmony in a ... relations between Taiwan and Mainland China. 1. Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, reprinted in KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS, BASIC WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY 320 (Lewis S. Feuer ed
political philosophy have lost their cogency since rights in both categories build on a shared understanding of core values of freedom, autonomy, equality and solidarity at a particular historical moment and ... (UDHR) integrated civil and political rights (CPR) with economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), and that the two International Covenants separated them. * François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health
might seem that there are quite insurmountable political differences, as well as legal hurdles, to carry us over the threshold to a waiver. My source for looking at this, these particular obligations on ... Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Before I elaborate on these two norms and explain why they should be the predicate basis for how states are negotiating solutions in regard to the TRIPS framework and
government from adhering to constitutional norms—the plenary powers doctrine.11 When Congress enacts immigration laws or the Executive Branch acts pursuant to the laws, courts have construed the political ... applied to immigration laws and policies providing the executive and political branches a neutral cover for discriminatory policies and enforcement practices.23 While U.S. immigration laws have largely
old-fashioned conceptual framework. It creates new fears and yet offers little new insights. The so-called ―realism‖—characteristic of the Bush Administration‘s political philosophy within neocon policy ... its basic legal and political strategy in its relations with the United States on human rights after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It shifted from a defensive discourse to an offensive discourse by
post-1948 U.N. Charter political order, international treaties, and national constitutions, in the 1990s the need to protect and promote religious freedom took on a new importance and urgency. Freedom ... , including the increased salience of religious identity in the world, and the intellectual and political resistance posed to secularist assumptions about human flourishing by a variety of social movements
the establishment of colonialism on the continent in the late nineteenth century and of the colonial administrations themselves on access to health care. Part IV discusses the broad legal, political ... health management.10 Pre-colonial approaches to health were intricately linked to the African communitarian philosophy and beliefs. African communitarian philosophy holds that every member of the
capital and free enterprise as its basic philosophy. The political objectives of the party include free unionism, opposition to discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace, tighter ... authorities.4 Nevertheless, the Nationalist Party ("Kuomintang" or "KMT") regime in Taiwan has relied upon authoritarian, paternalistic industrial policies to exclude workers from the political process. As a
Amendment's protection of speech. To do this, the paper will examine three primary justifications of the First Amendment: individual liberty, the marketplace of ideas, and political participation. The paper ... variation of it at the forefront of political philosophy.53 Mill's arguments, while certainly not adopted wholesale by the judiciary, are central to the roots of modem American First Amendment law. The
