Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from June 2001

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from June 2001

Young enough to die? Executing juvenile offenders in violation of international law.
June 22, 2001... There is now an almost global consensus that people who commit crimes when under 18 should not be subjected to the death penalty. This is not an attempt to excuse violent juvenile crime, or belittle the suffering of its victims and their...

International protection of genetic information: the progression of the Human Genome Project and the current framework of human rights doctrines.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international project to sequence and map the human genome as well as to document humanity's genetic resources. (1) It has the potential to impact human rights and public health by creating...

The regulation of cross-border public offerings of securities in the European Union: present and future.
June 22, 2001... The European Union (E.U.) (1) has witnessed dramatic progress in recent years in terms of both monetary integration and the fortification of its position as a financial and economic powerhouse with the commencement of the European Monetary...

The individual as beneficiary of state immunity: problems of the attribution of ultra vires conduct.
June 22, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION It is a truism among international lawyers that the state immunity principle might bar a domestic legal action brought against a foreign state. There has been much discussion about the extent to which a foreign state is...

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: between political symbolism and legal realism.
June 22, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION The idea to adopt a Charter of Fundamental Rights (Charter) for the European Union (EU) is a long standing demand raised over and over again since the early nineteen seventies by national constitutional courts, governments...

Self-determination and secession under international law.
June 22, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION Self-determination and secession pose major challenges for international lawyers--the former for its ambiguity and difficulties of operationalization and the latter for the uncertainty of its status, since it is neither...