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Paulina Lucio Maymon, Judging Women Who Kill Their Batterers in the United States: A Violation of Their Right to Equality Before the Law Under the ICCPR, American University International Law Review, Vol. 37: Iss. 1, Article 3 (2022). Abstract below….
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By Co-Editor Prof. Justine Dunlap I did not listen or watch as various senators made opening statements on day one of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson. Bloviating is one of the truly bipartisan…
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photo by Caroline LaPorte, Anishinaabe, Descendant and Associate Judge, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians; Director, Indigenous Safe Housing Center, NIWRC By Cameron Ewing (Legal Intern), Samantha Johnson (Legal Intern), Braelyn Saumure (Student Fellow), and Tamar Ezer (Acting Director), Human…
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By Co-Editor Prof. Justine Dunlap About 34 states have introduced legislation that in some way restricts transgender youth from receiving appropriate health care. These legislative acts, if moved forward into laws, will kill people. They could result in death even…
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Joseph Marguiles, In US v. Husayn (Abu Zubaydah), the Supreme Court Calls Torture What It Is, Just Security (March 11, 2022). Excepts below. “As I read the decision, Abu Zubaydah can rely on 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1782 to depose the…
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Katharine Young, Human Rights Originalism, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 110, No. 5 (2022). Abstract below. Are human rights to be found in living instruments and practices that adapt to changing circumstances, or must they be interpreted according to their original…
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By Bailey Bickford, 2L and Research Assistant at the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern Law After two bills that would have banned gender-affirming care for trans youth in Texas did not pass the state’s…
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David Abraham, Group Rights and Individual Minority Rights in Immigrant Societies, Then and Now (2021). Abstract below. The history of the past century or more suggests that “peoples,” however defined, may have their present and future collective needs realized in…
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The Summit of the Americas Secretariat has issued an open call for civil society representatives and social actors to participate in thematic sub-regional working groups in preparation for the 9th Summit of the Americas. The deadline to register for these…
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The third edition of the ABA Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development has been published. This book is a comprehensive legal guide to the development of affordable housing for practitioners and housing advocates. It covers all aspects of the development…
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By: Tamar Ezer, Acting Director & Braelyn Saumure, Student Fellow, Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami School of Law Despite the challenges of 2021, it closed with some important milestones. At long last, the U.N. Human Rights Council recognized “the…
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The following calls for inputs have been issued by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in February-March 2022 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission: Office of the United…
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On February 10, 2022, join “Live from L” an annual program featuring members of the U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser discussing a topic of current interest. The theme of this year’s program is Climate Change –…
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Suzanne Katzenstein, Reverse-Rhetorical Entrapment: Naming and Shaming as a Two-Way Street, 46 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1079 (2021). Abstract below. “Naming and shaming,” the process of exposing, publicizing, and condemning human rights abuses, is one of the most important…
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On Monday February 28, 2022, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST online via Zoom, the AALS International Human Rights Section will host a webinar on Police Accountability as Transitional Justice in the US. The webinar will explore the role of…
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On Monday January 31, 2022, the Center for Reproductive Rights’ President and CEO Nancy Northrup is hosting a webinar to provide first-hand information on the cases and context for attacks on reproductive rights in the US, and a global human…
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Austin A. Baker and J. Remy Green, There Is No Such Thing As A “Legal Name”, 53.1 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 129 (2021). Abstract below. The phrase “legal name” appears everywhere. And wherever it appears, it seems to come…
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On Wednesday January 19, 2022, from 12:30 – 1:30 pm EST, the American Society of International Law’s Human Rights Interest Group invites you to join the next installation of the series “Human Rights Talks”, in which the presidents or heads…
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Lisa Cosgrove and Allen F. Shaughnessy, Mental Health as a Basic Human Right and the Interference of Commercialized Science, Health and Human Rights Journal (2020), https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2469/2020/06/Cosgrove.pdf. Abstract pasted below. Although there is consensus that a rights-based approach to mental health…
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The following calls for inputs have been issued by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in January-March 2022 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission: Special Rapporteur on the…
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The 2022 AALS Annual Meeting is being held this week January 5-9, 2022. The following human rights-related sessions may be of interest to law professors attending the meeting: Wednesday January 5, 2022 11am-12:15pm Did Democracy Stumble? Pandemic Lessons from Around…
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The Human Rights at Home LawProfs Blog and the Reproductive Rights Law Profs Blog are planning a symposium on the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision which is anticipated by Summer 2022. The symposium will The…
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By Mary Hansel, Co-Editor Since 2019, Prof. Mary Hansel and her students in the UCI Law International Justice Clinic (IJC) have advocated for Los Angeles County to pass a measure implementing the United Nations Convention to Eliminate All Forms of…
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By Sandy Recinos, ’23, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law On March 30th, 2021, Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken decisively repudiated the report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, Secretary Mike Pompeo’s…
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On Thursday, December 16th at 14:00-15:30 ET, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold a hearing on the right to housing in the United States. Participants include the Center for Human for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American…
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On Friday December 10, 2021, Human Rights Day, there are two events that might be of interest: The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and the Center for Constitutional Rights will host a webinar on the major takeaways from the 2021 UN…
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The following calls for inputs have been issued by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in December 2021 and January 2022. Law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission. Special Rapporteur…
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Evaluating the Implementation of Human Rights Law: A Data Analytics Research Agenda, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, 2021 Forthcoming. Abstract below. The United Nations’ reporting process, a built-in component of all major human rights treaties, enables…
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November 22, 2021 – Last week Mr. Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, urged the United States of America to overhaul legislation to prevent increasing exclusion, discrimination and hate speech and crimes against minorities, saying the legal…
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