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16 Nov 2009, 2:45 am
Even as the Supreme Court considers juvenile LWOP, as described in IntLawGrrls posts above and here, will Texas get in line both with the trend depicted in the graph and the event on which we've also posted, the American Law Institute consensus against "the current system of capital punishment in America"? [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 3:04 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Dr. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 3:02 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post on my article published at 49 British Journal of Criminology 165 (2009)) Foreigners working as housemaids in Bahrain continue to face a Catch-22, as I've described in my recent article, Policing Housemaids: The Criminalization of Domestic Workers in Bahrain.Using ethnographic and interview methodologies, I explored cultural perceptions of work and family which factor into how Bahraini labor law fails to include… [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 3:01 am
... occasional posts on writing worth reading) Heartfelt thanks to our colleague Bert Lockwood for alerting us to 2 new books in the University of Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series, which he edits and which also features works by IntLawGrrls Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Connie de la Vega (prior post). [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 3:01 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Laurel Terry (left) as today's guest blogger. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 3:00 am
First of all, let me extend my thanks to IntLawGrrls for encouraging me to appear as a guest blogger. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 3:12 am
The Clinic is seeking would appreciate input from IntLawGrrls bloggers and readers. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 11:45 pm
., Sept. 2009) [text]Slavery & the Trafficking of Women (IntLawGrrls Blog, Nov. 2009) [text]"'Two People Can’t Share the Same Pair of Shoes': Citizenship, Land and the Return of Refugees [read post]
8 Nov 2009, 3:04 am
It's IntlawGrrls' great pleasure today to welcome Nina Tavakoli (left) as a guest blogger.As an Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Nina assists the Judges of the Trial Chambers with legal research on complex issues of substantive international criminal law, procedure and evidence; in the management of trials; and in the drafting of interlocutory decisions and final judgments.Before joining the ICTR, she was a litigation lawyer at the… [read post]
8 Nov 2009, 3:01 am
(Many thanks to IntLawGrrls for inviting me to contribute this guest post on trafficking of women, based on my recent article in the International Criminal Law Review)The international legal framework for the prosecution of trafficking of women needs to be revisited if this crime is to be combated more effectively. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 3:01 am
As IntLawGrrls have often posted, the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons touches on a number of fields of study, including Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, and the Law of International Organizations. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 3:04 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure today to welcome Dr. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 3:02 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for this opportunity to guest post on the article I recently published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice)The creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1993 and 1994, respectively, marked a new normative trend of using international criminal justice as a response to war crimes and human rights violations. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 3:01 am
is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest) IntLawGrrls will be well represented at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review symposium to be held November 13 and 14 at the Philadelphia-based law school. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
After 14 years of limbo, Rodi Alvarado may receive a grant of asylum.As IntLawGrrl Amy Senier then posted, this summer the administration announced its intention to adopt regulations that have been pending since Matter of R-A- was first litigated in the mid-1990s.This week, in a one-paragraph brief issued from the office of Chief Counsel Ron LeFevre, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Alvarado "is eligible for asylum and merits a grant of asylum as a matter of… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 10:25 am
(See previous IntLawGrrls posts on Bachelet here.) [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 3:03 am
ASIL Executive Director Elizabeth Andersen will moderate a panel of discussants on the results.Among the questions to be explored include many on which IntLawGrrls frequently post, such as: the desirability (or not) of compliance with international law; confidence (or not) in the ICJ; the role of the United Nations; intervention under the banner of responsibility to protect or for other reasons; and the International Criminal Court indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.Details and… [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 3:02 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Pamela Yates (right) as today's guest blogger.Pamela's a cofounder of Skylight Pictures, Inc., and the director of Skylight's most recent production: The Reckoning, a feature-length film on the International Criminal Court that's subject of IntLawGrrls posts posted here and here by Lucy Reed and yours truly.Recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the Director's Guild of America and the… [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 3:01 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for this opportunity to guest post on our online efforts to enhance global understanding of human rights)Making the film The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court wasn't enough.There had to be a way to take the members of a general audience, newly introduced to the idea of the International Criminal Court via the emotional journey in the film, and make them part of a growing movement for international justice.At Skylight Pictures, where we… [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
.-- Sherman Alexie (right), author of works this IntLawGrrl much admires, on why, according to this article in The New York Times, "[h]e turned down offers to sell the movie rights to" his young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), "a book he calls an extremely faithful recounting of his experience growing up poor on the Spokane tribal reservation in eastern Washington State. [read post]
