Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal articles from January 1 2005

Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal archives from January 1 2005

Crossing borders, claiming rights: using human rights law to empower women migrant workers.
January 1, 2005... This Article considers the impact of the Migrant Workers Convention on the human rights of women migrants. While the adoption of a convention targeting abuses against migrant workers is a significant development in international human rights...

Third generation rights: what Islamic law can teach the international human rights movement.
January 1, 2005... Debate over the universality of human rights has typically focused on the extent to which international human rights law differs from local cultural practices and has generally sought to resolve these differences in favor of the international...

Clinical legal education in China: in pursuit of a culture of law and a mission of social justice.
January 1, 2005... Seeking to play a greater role in an evolving world order, China faces pressure to conform to international legal norms and the rule of law. Strengthening the legal culture in China includes exploring new ways to train Chinese law students....

Protecting cultural property in Iraq: how American military policy comports with international law.
January 1, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION AS American troops entered Baghdad as a liberating force on April 9, 2003, a wave of looting engulfed the city. Iraqi looters ransacked government buildings, stores, churches, and private homes stealing anything they could...

Srebrenica as genocide? The Krstic decision and the language of the unspeakable.(Radislav Krstic)
January 1, 2005... In August 2001, a trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) handed down the tribunal's first genocide conviction. In this landmark case, Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic, the trial chamber determined...

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, by Mark Dow Publisher: University of California Press (2004) Price: $27.50 In the wake of stringent 1996 federal immigration laws and post-9/11 terrorism concerns, the number of immigrants...

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, by Victoria Sanford Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2003) Price: $22.05 Over 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, more than 1 million displaced and at least 626 villages destroyed...

International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance, by Balakrishnan Rajagopal Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2003) Price: 50.00 [pounds sterling] While many lawyers and legal scholars seek to...

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? by James L. Gibson Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation (2004) Price: $47.50 Law and legal institutions have always drawn heavily from their cultural contexts in formulating...

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer Publisher: University of California Press (2003) Price: $27.50 Pathologies of Power (1) opens with Paul Farmer's account of a visit to a refugee camp in...

The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Dark Sides of Virtue, by David Kennedy Publisher: Princeton University Press (2004) Price: $29.95 In the course of his two-decade career in the international human rights movement, Harvard Law professor David Kennedy has had ample...

The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, by Richard Wolin Publisher: Princeton University Press (2004) Price: $18.87 "Thinking begins only when we have come to know that Reason,...