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economics? Developing the rule of law, many insist, is the key. How can Mexico negotiate its treacherous economic, political, and social transitions? Inside and outside Mexico, many answer: establish once and ... for all the rule of law. Indeed, whether it's Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, or elsewhere, the cure is the rule of law, of course ... . The concept is suddenly everywhere-a venerable part of Western political
dilemmas of ‘political opinion’ jurisprudence that Colloquium participants considered. The central questions are presented here as the participants saw them. This presentation * Catherine Dauvergne (BA, MA ... Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, in 2015. serves, therefore, to deepen one’s reading of the Michigan Guidelines on Risk for Reasons of Political Opinion. The paper addresses many
The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (“Convention”) recognizes as refugees those who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted on the basis of inter alia “political opinion,” are
. In o th er words, th e political space, u n lik e in th e philosophy, th e m in d only is not enough for som ething to be considered for th e tru th . We need also some social conditions, am ong w hich ... re tu rn in g in th e A re n d t’s d e lib era tions. It is philosophy political p ractice of a n c ie n t Greece. T he a u th o r trie s to find th e re a still u n co n ta m in a te d source of
r in g th e y e a r s 1989-1992 The year 1989 was distinctive for a political transform ation in Poland and other countries of E a ste rn and C entral Europe. It was in th is year th a t the first
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy can include many activities that a person
The thesis of this Essay is that international law currently represents a welfare-driven and bio-political structuring mode for international society which not only counterbalances liberal economic ... by current globalization practices. This has been supported by many observers, albeit not necessarily on the basis of a political interpretation of the sort I am proposing here, but in other, equally
By situating the U.S. rise to dominance in historical and political context, this Article underscores the significance of U.S. unilateralism for international anti-trafficking law and policy. ... become a mainstream political concern, both internationally and domestically. Defined roughly as the recruitment or movement of persons by means of coercion or deception into exploitative labor or slavery
nowadays, has its origin in the second half of the 19th century which was significantly influen? ced by the development of the parliam entary movement and the spread of the right to vote. Political parties
, finding that certain public statements by Hutu political leaders and RTLM radio broadcasts constituted direct and public incitement to commit genocide against ethnic Tutsis. ... Rights, Professor of Law and Anthropology and Founding Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. BSc., Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science. I am grateful
on whether the ICC, and particularly its prosecutor, are improperly motivated by political considerations. Critics charge that selection decisions are inappropriately political, while the Court's ... selection decisions are inappropriately political,2 while the Court's current prosecutor,3 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, counters that his decisions are apolitical-that he is simply implementing the law enunciated in
The nation has become one of the most contested concepts of our times. The multifarious definitions of the nation focus on cultural, political, psychological, territorial, ethnic, and sociological ... , politicians, and political activists willing to shed some light into such a disputed term. Their lack of agreement suggests a major difficulty in dealing with such a complex phenomenon. The crux of the matter
view of prescriptive jurisdiction, that is, a political institution’s authority to prescribe rules binding conduct. Indeed, despite precedent from the General Court claiming otherwise, the European Union ... extraterritorially, but authority; and (2) the entire spectrum of human rights obligations potentially arises from relationships of political authority and obedience. Section I begins by setting out certain
outcomes? In exploring these questions, we have to begin with a paradox. All of the world's leading economies are located in countries that, by various political routes, have evolved into what Paul ... , they are the result of political struggles in NationStates involving citizens, political parties, and economic interest groups. The necessarily messy democracy does not invariably produce optimal
in all public places; and a popular referendum has passed in Switzerland prohibiting the construction of minarets during which a political party used posters depicting minarets as missiles standing on ... a civil philosophy that sought to desacralize the state and led over time to both the churches losing their civil and political authority and to the gradual spiritualization of religion. In the second
States do outside their territory. Extraterritorial state activities raise a number of important political and legal questions including, fundamentally, whether they are justified, both in terms of the ... hole" thesis holds water: are the main international treaties on civil and political rights inapplicable to these activities by reason of the "wartime" context in which some of them occur and/or the
Commentary on Professor Montserrat Guibernau's Nations Without States: Political Communities in the Global Age ... : Political 0 University of Michigan Law School , USA 1 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Journal of International Law at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship
– his or her race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion – the claim to be a refugee must fail. Because the drafters of the Refugee Convention believed that ... accessing refugee status, the notion of risk for reasons of “political opinion” is perhaps the one that sits most comfortably with the general understanding of who is a refugee: indeed, it is common to refer
Today, a great challenge of our profession is to envision how we will deliver exemplary neurosurgical care in the future. To accomplish this requires anticipating how economic, political, and ... , political and social awareness needed to meet those challenges which extend beyond the boundaries of a single nation. Brainstem, supratentorial and intramedullary cavernous malformations are critical in
to debate the relative roles in that process of anti-slavery social movements, changes in political philosophy, shifting modes of production and trade, religious and humanitarian principles, and the ... category of “slavery” again became active, attained its legal and political standing, and became a powerful resource for social mobilization.21 The issue at hand, then, is not so much the term’s existence
