Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from September 2002

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from September 2002

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die: the story of the Transatlantic Common Aviation Area.
September 22, 2002... The Transatlantic Common Aviation Area (TCAA, also known as the Common Transatlantic Aviation Area, CTAA, or simply the Common Aviation Area, CAA) (1) is a revolutionary idea in the field of international aviation, seeking to move beyond the...

Conjoined twins: the conflict between parents and the courts over the medical treatment of children.
September 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION The anomaly of conjoined twins fascinates and amazes people around the world. Conjoined twins are the subject of television documentaries and a source of curiosity and amazement. (1) With advances in medical treatment more...

To have and to hold: a postmodern feminist response to the mailorder bride industry.
September 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION There are, of course, attractions for men other than the escape from feminist values to the traditional, family orientated [sic] females. We all know [P]hilippine women make perfect wives. In the ...

Prosecuting al Qaeda: America's human rights policy interests are best served by trying terrorists under international tribunals.
September 22, 2002... The basic proposition here is that somebody who comes into the United States of America illegally, who conducts a terrorist operation killing thousands of innocent Americans, men, women, and children, is not a lawful combatant. They don't...

A return to Lockerbie and the Montreal Convention in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks: ramifications of past Security Council and International Court of Justice action.
September 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION Nearly thirteen years after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December, 1988, (1) the international community again faces the challenge of confronting the international legal ramifications...

Northern Ireland: the paramilitaries, terrorism, and September 11th.
September 22, 2002... [P]erhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation,... when many Irish-Americans and people of 60 other countries were killed in the dreadful explosions in the USA, and there are 6.5 million people on the cusp of starvation in...

Foreword: combating international terrorism.
September 29, 2002... This symposium issue of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy comprises much of the most timely thinking on international terrorism from a legal perspective. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September...

The grave new world of terrorism: a lawyer's view.
September 29, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION It is truly a pleasure and an honor for me to present the 2002 Myres McDougal Lecture. When I first ventured into the field of international law, several distinguished colleagues of ours were especially kind and helpful to...

Transitional justice in Afghanistan: the promise of mixed tribunals.
September 29, 2002... In the wake of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, how to apprehend, question, and punish the perpetrators remains a difficult question to answer. Despite the United States-led military response in...

American exceptionalism and the international law of self-defense.
September 29, 2002... Following the September 11th attacks in the United States (U.S.), one could make a case for America's use of force in Afghanistan as a lawful exercise of the right of self-defense. (1) But the proposals to invade Iraq following September 11th...

International human rights law and the war on terrorism.
September 29, 2002... The September 11th terrorist attacks prompted a rethinking of the relationship between liberty and security. The attacks exemplify a new mode of organizing sustained violence that poses a fundamental challenge to United States (U.S.) and...

Terrorist crime, Taliban guilt, Western victims, and international law.
September 29, 2002... On September 11th, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States and killed approximately 3,000 civilians from 81 countries. (1) Traditionally, international law treats armed attacks differently than criminal attacks. States launch armed...

The threat of nuclear terrorism and September 11th: wake-up call to get the treaties right.
September 29, 2002... There are two international treaties currently being drafted specifically on nuclear terrorism. (1) Both could require that specific measures be taken worldwide to protect and secure nuclear facilities from terrorist attack and sabotage; but...

Compulsory inter-state arbitration of territorial disputes.(Slovenia-Croatia)
September 29, 2002... Just or unjust, the decision of the arbiters will save the credit, the honour, of the contending party.--Jeremy Bentham (1) I. INTRODUCTION On June 25, 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. The two...