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Volume 14, 2008
Volume 13, 2007
Volume 12, 2006
Volume 11- 2005
Volume 10, 2004
Volume 09, 2003
Volume 08, 2002

Volume 07, 2001
Volume 06, 2000
Volume 05, 1999
Volume 04, 1998
Volume 03, 1996-97
Volume 02, 1995
Volume 01, 1994


Volume 14, 2008

Foreword

......... Adam O'Brian

The 2007-2008 Mitchell Lecture:

The Rule of Law and the Politics of Fear: Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century
......... Irene Zubaida Khan

Articles:

Towards the Criminalization of Dictatorship: A Draft Proposal for an International Convention on Dictatorship
......... Patrick J. Glen

Judicial Patronage of 'Honor Killings' in Pakistan: the Supreme Court's Persistent Adherence to the Doctrine of Grave and Sudden Provocation
......... Moeen H. Cheema

Red Thread or Slender Reed: Deconstructing Prof. Bartholet's Mythology of International Adoption
......... Trish Maskew & Johanna Oreskovic

Tracing the Contours of Transnational Corporations' Human Rights Obligations in the Twenty-First Century
......... Iris Halpern

Migrant Children, Compulsory Education, & the Rule of Law in China
......... Brian Holland

Book Reviews:

Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights by David Bilchitz
......... Gregory Stein

Human Rights A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Clapham
......... Elsa Hernández


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Volume 13, 2007

Forward

......... Patricia Sandison

Introduction

......... Azra Zaidi

Essay

Lipstick on a Caterpillar? Assessing the New U.N. Human Rights Council Through Historical Reflection
......... Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Articles

Beyond Juba: Does Uganda Need a National Truth and Reconciliation Process?
......... Makau Mutua

The Commodification of Women's Work: Theorizing the Advancement of African Women

......... Tiffany M. McKinney Gardner

Moral Relativism and Human Rights
......... Torben Spaak

State Responsibility for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations
......... Damira Kamchibekova

International Adoption: Thoughts on the Human Rights Issues
......... Elizabeth Bartholet

How Japan 's Recent Efforts to Reduce Sex Trafficking can be Improved Through International Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms: Fulfilling Japan's Global Legal Obligations
......... Kerry E. Yun

Student Note

Saddam Hussein and the IST on Trial: The Case for the ICC
......... Heidi M. Spalholz

Book Reviews

The Kurds in Turkey : EU Accession and Human Rights by Kerim Yildiz
......... Khurram Khan

Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis
......... Sarah Feor


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Volume 12, 2006

Forward

......... Allison T.C. Milne

Articles

Integrating a Human Rights Perspective into the European Approach to Combating the Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation
......... Alexandra Amiel

Beyond the Promises: Resuscitating the State Reporting Procedure under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
......... Takele Soboka Bulto

Human Rights Realization in an Era of Globalization: The Indian Experience
......... Surya Deva

Human Rights Begin at Home: A Policy Analysis of Litigating International Human Rights in U.S. State Courts
......... Anna Maria Gabrielidis

Notes

Limiting the Application of ......... Jus Soli: The Resulting Status of Undocumented Children in the United States
......... Brooke Kirkland

Assessing the Collateral International Consequences of the U.S.' Removal Policy
......... Tara Pinkham


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Volume 11, 2005

Foreword

......... Susan M. Cimini & Anne E. Joynt

Articles

Responsibility, Injustice and the American Dilemma
......... Mohammad- Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Human Rights Violations Arising From Conduct of Non-State Actors
......... Jan Arno Hessbruegge

Internationalizing Post-Conflict Justice: The "Hybrid" Special Court for Sierra Leone
......... Lisa Danish

Note

Prosecuting Cases of Gender Violence in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
......... Allison T.C. Milne

Book Reviews

Patrick Thornberry & María Amor Martín Estébanez, Minority Rights in Europe
......... D. Christopher Decker

Sanford Levinson, Torture: A Collection
......... Bryn D. Powell


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Volume 10, 2004

Foreword

......... Susan M. Cimini & Anne E. Joynt

Articles

The Truth Between Reparation and Reconciliation: The Pretoria-Nairobi Axis
......... Ali A. Mazrui

Republic of Kenya Report of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
......... Makau Mutua

Translating International and Regional Trafficking Norms into Domestic Reality: A Hong Kong Case Study
......... Robyn Emerton

Who Will Watch the Watchdogs? Human Rights Non-governmental Organizations and the Case for Regulation
......... Robert Charles Blitt

Notes

The Patriot Act and Bush's Military Tribunals: Effective Enforcement or Attacks on Civil Liberties?
......... John Lichtenthal

The Semantics of the Guantanamo Bay Inmates: Enemy Combatants or Prisoners of the War on Terror?
......... Anne E. Joynt

Book Reviews

Anne Orford, Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law
......... Lisa Danish

Katerina DaLacoura, Engagement or Coercion? Weighing Western Human Rights Policies Towards Turkey , Iran and Egypt
......... Susan M. Cimini


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Volume 9, 2003

Articles

Convention Refugeehood, Early Warning Signs, and the Structural Crisis of Legitimate Statehood in Contemporary Nigeria
......... Obiora Chinedu Okafor

Human Rights and Post-Imperialism: Arguing for a Deliberative Legitimation Of Human Rights
......... Amy Bartholomew

Transplant Justice?: The Efficacy of a Purely Common Law Concept in the International Criminal Forum
......... Theresa Marie Clark

Violation of Human Rights Through State Tolerance of Street-Level Bribery: Case Study , Slovakia
......... Jarmila Lajcakova

The Death Penalty, Extradition, and the War Against Terrorism: U.S. Responses to European Opinion About Capital Punishment
......... Kathryn F. King


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Volume 8, 2002

Foreword

......... Mary B. Bowman & Mark P. Popiel

Articles

Terrorism and Human Rights: Power, Culture, and Subordination
......... Makau Mutua

The Role of Compulsion in Islamic Conversion: Jihad, Dhimma and Ridda
......... Donna E. Arzt

Genocide: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Quest for Global Justice
......... Matthew Lippman

Rights Integration in an Institutional Context: The Experience of the Kenya Human Rights Commission
......... Willy Mutunga & Alamin Mazrui

Book Review

Important Lessons From History Reviewing Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
......... Wendy Brown Scott

Notes

Symbolic Rites: Examining the Adequacy of Federal Legislation Addressing the Problem of Female Excision in the United States
......... Christopher T. Paresi

Erins on the Erie : A Historical Labor Study
......... Ryan Patrick Hanna


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Volume 7, 2001

Foreword

......... Erin E. Bahn

Articles

Assimilation, Pluralism and Multiculturalism: The Policy of Racial/Ethnic Identity in America
......... Anita Christina Butera

Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, An Historical Perspective
......... John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk, Erin E. McCurdy

Expanding International and National Protections Against Trafficking for Forced Labor Using a Human Rights Framework
......... Shelley Case Inglis

Notes

To Labor in the Dancing World: Human Rights at Work
......... Erin E. Bahn

Examining Global Access to Essential Pharmaceuticals in the Face of Patient Protection Rights: The South African Example
......... Bess-Carolina Dolmo

Russian Jewry: The History of Survival
......... Polina Tomashevsky

World Bank Study
......... Jennifer N. Weidner


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Volume 6, 2000

Foreword

......... Margot Schoenborn & Michelle McKee

Articles

Re-Conceiving " Third World " Legitimate Governance Struggles in Our Time:Emergent Imperatives for Rights Activism
......... Obiora Chinedu Okafora

Human Rights and Sustainable Development in Contemporary Africa : A New Dawn, or Retreating Horizons?
......... J. Oloka-Onyango

From Nuremberg to the Rwanda Tribunal: Justice or Retribution?
......... Makau Mutua

Comment

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: Eleven Years After
......... Udeme Essien

Notes

Trading Indigenous Rights: The NAFTA Side Agreements as an Impetus for Human Rights Enforcement
......... David P. Kelly

Tinkering With the Machinery of Death: Understanding Why the United States' Use of the Death Penalty Violates Customary International Law
......... Michelle McKee

The Access to Justice Bill and Human Rights Act of 1998: Britain 's Legislative Overhaul Leaves the System Scrambling to Mend the Safety Net
......... Margot Penfold Schoenborn


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Volume 5, 1999

Foreword

......... Ryan E. Harden & Stacy R. Sandusky

Articles

The Principle of Non-Refoulement
......... David Weissbrodt & Isabel Hörtreiter

Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context
......... Makau Mutua

Good Governance as a Counter Insurgency Agenda to Oppositional and Transformative Social Projects in International Law
......... James Thuo Gathii

Impoverished Liberalism: Does the New York Workfare Program Violate Human Rights?
......... Anthony Bertelli

Comment

Cultural Relativism and Cultural Imperialism in Human Rights Law
......... Guyora Binder

Notes

The War Over Children's Rights: And Justice for All? Equalizing the Rights of Children
......... Rochelle D. Jackson

Women's Political Participation in Developing and Democratizing Countries:Focus on Zimbabwe
......... Stacy R. Sandusky

Review Article

Capitalism and Human Rights
......... Rhonda E. Howard

Book Reviews

Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective
......... Isabelle Marcus

Out of America : A Black Man Confronts Africa
......... Kim Robinson


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Volume 4, 1998

Foreword

Coming to Grips with Tomorrow's Human Rights Agenda
......... Philip Alston

Articles

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa : Accounting for the Past
......... Honorable Abdullah Omar

Ubuntu and the Law in South Africa
......... Justice Yvonne Mokgoro

Social Rights and Economic Development: Converging Discourses?
......... Henry J. Steiner

Universality and Relativity of Human Rights: American Relativism
......... Johan D. van der Vyver

Beyond Justiciability: Challenges of Implementing/Enforcing Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa
......... Shadrack B. O. Gutto

The African Charter and Freedom of Expression in Africa
......... Claude E. Welch, Jr

Essay: Cleaning Our Own House: "Exotic" and Familial Human Rights Violations
......... Hope Lewis & Isabelle R. Gunning

Patriarchy and Discrimination in Apartheid South Africa's Abortion Laws
......... Jeremy Sarkin

Female Circumcision in the Modern Age: Should Female Circumcision Now Be Considered Grounds for Asylum in the United States
......... Gregory A. Kelson

Looking Past the Human Rights Committee: An Argument for De-Marginalizing Enforcement
......... Makau Mutua

Comments

Refugee Rights: The New Frontier of Human Rights Protection
......... Bill Frelick

Notes

The Effect of Free Trade, Privatization and Democracy on the Human Rights Conditions for Minorities in Eastern Europe: A Case Study of the Gypsies in the Czech Republic and Hungary
......... Marc W. Brown

A Broken Promise: The Continued Use of Virginity Control Examinations in Turkey
......... D. Christopher Decker

Feeding the Watchdogs: Philanthropic Support for Human Rights NGOs
......... Jay S. Ovsiovitch

Book Reviews

Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century
......... David P. Forsythe

What is Critical Race Feminism?
......... Leila Hilal


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Volume 3: 1996, 1997

A. Summer 1996, Vol. 3, No. 1

Articles

Observing and Enforcing Human Rights Under the Council of Europe : The Creation of a Permanent European Court of Human Rights
......... Jonathan L. Black-Branch

GATS and Financial Services: Redefining Borders
......... Jeffrey Simser

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights and Cambodia : 1975-1980
......... Jamie Frederic Metzl

The Reasonable Suspicion Test of Northern Ireland's Emergency Legislation: A Violation of the European Convention of Human Rights
......... Elizabeth Kondonijakos

Forum Non Conveniens in the United States and Canada
......... Donald J. Carney

Foreign Investment Issues for International Non-Governmental Organizations: International Health Projects in China and the Former Soviet Union
......... Timothy C. Evered

The Destruction of Churches and Mosques in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Seeking a Rights-Based Approach to the Protection of Religious Cultural Property
......... Gregory M. Mose

Commentary: Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourses on Asian Perspectives
......... Sharon K. Hom

B. Winter 1996-1997, Vol. 3, No. 2

Articles

International Humanitarian Assistance: The Role of the Red Cross
......... David P. Forsythe

Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts: A Hypocritical Approach
......... Mark Gibney

States, Industrial Policies, and Antidumping Enforcement in Japan , South Korea , and Taiwan
......... John K.M. Ohnesorge

A Divorce Waiting to Happen: Franklin Roosevelt and the Law of Neutrality, 1935-1941
......... Aaron Xavier Fellmeth

Notes

A Criticism of the EU Directive Protecting Computer Software
......... Robert Shaposka

Searching for a Coherent National Policy: The Problem of Foreign Money in United States Politics
......... Celeste M. Murphy


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Volume 2, 1995

Articles

Beyond the Veil? An Analysis of the Provisions of the Women's Convention and the Law as Stipulated in Shari'ah
......... Urfan Khaliq

Power Ethnicized: The Pursuit of Protection and Participation in Rwanda and Burundi
......... Linda Maguire

Equal Value in the European Union: Fiction or Reality?
......... Taline Aharonian

Note

Chemical Prospecting, Biodiversity Conservation and the Importance of International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Biological Materials
......... Mark A. Urbanski

Recent Developments

Self Determination in the Case of Chechnya


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Volume 1, 1994

Foreword

......... Professor Virginia A. Leary

Introduction

......... Dean Barry B. Boyer

Articles

Introduction to Biological Diversity: Law, Institutions, and Science
......... Catherine J. Tinker

Free Trade and the Environment: Will Free Trade Save China's Environment
......... Paul J. Smith

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Development of
Environmental Policy at the Asian Development Bank
......... Peter J. Illig

Recent Developments

Case Study: Ecuador
Selected Bibliography of Publications on Biological Diversity
Signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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