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- Emerging international human rights norms for transnational corporations.
This article analyzes the emergence of new human rights norms for transnational corporations. It first explores voluntary norm-making approaches, whic...
- Global Governance
- Vol. 15 Nbr. 2, April 2009
- Rhetorical inaction? Compliance and the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations was inaugurated in 2006 to much acclaim. Promising to defuse the tensions that had overwhelmed its mali...
- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
- Vol. 35 Nbr. 4, October 2010
- Bilateral investment treaties: a friend or foe to human rights?
I. INTRODUCTION The worst cases of corporate-related human rights harm have occurred, predictably, in the places that need economic development the ...
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Vol. 39 Nbr. 3, June 2011

- Re-theorizing human rights through the refugee: on the interrelation between democracy and global justice.
Abstract Drawing on Habermas's notion of discourse ethics and agonistic democratic theory I offer an account that attempts to overcome the exclusion...
- Refuge
- Vol. 27 Nbr. 1, March 2010
- Protecting women in peace and conflict: international humanitarian and human rights law at work.
Armed conflict leaves no person and nothing unscathed. The vile nature of war penetrates all aspects of life and human society, including the land and...
- Peace and Freedom
- Vol. 71 Nbr. 2, September 2011
- Is the wedding of trade and human rights a marriage of convenience or a lasting union?
Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights. By Emilie Hafner-Burton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 220pp. [ILLUSTRATIO...
- Human Rights & Human Welfare
- Nbr. 10, January 2010
- The Path to Gender Justice in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
[...] the paper suggests strategies to continue to enhance the sensitivity of the Court to gender issues in order to improve the treatment of women in the Inter-American Human Rights System and, consequently, in the Americas in general.
- Texas Journal of Women and the Law
- Vol. 17 Nbr. 2, April 2008
- Human rights and the search for common ground: a comparative study of Islamic and Christian thought.
Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism. By Paul Heck. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 2009. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...
- Human Rights & Human Welfare
- Nbr. 11, January 2011
- Access to Habeas Corpus: A Human Rights Analysis of U.S. Practices in the War on Terrorism
Introduction - II. History and significance of habeas corpus - III. Habeas corpus provisions in relevant human rights law - A. Article 9(4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - B. Article XXV of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man - IV. Basic guarantees and scope of application - A. Basic Guarantees - B. Relationship to International Humanitarian Law - C. Derogability - D. Extraterritorial Application - V. Assessing american compliance - A. Availability of Review - B. Procedural Issues - VI. Conclusion
- Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
- Nbr. 20-1, May 2011
- Upholding Human Rights in the Hemisphere: Casting Down Impunity Through the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
This article further fills the lacuna in the scholarly literature regarding compliance theory and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It builds upon a previous publication by this same author titled "Member State Compliance with the Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights." Like its predecessor, this Article explores various prominent theoretical models including the managerial model, fairness and legitimacy, transnational legal process, and self-interest. Harmonizing aspects of these distinctive theoretical models as an analytical base, this Article proposes a new, hybrid model which suggests that many of the central tenets of the previous theories reflect reconcilable dimensions of compliance with the Court's judgments rather than representing an ineluctable, theor...
- Texas International Law Journal
- Vol. 43 Nbr. 2, April 2008