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29 Jun 2009, 3:01 am
(Many thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post.)As my colleague, IntLawGrrl Beth Van Schaack, and I recently made the rounds of various women's groups during our research trip to Costa Rica, attempting to get a sense of whether and how the world of international human rights might be employed to help to mobilize those working on behalf of women's status in Central America, everyone spoke of "la Rosita. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 1:52 pm
(IntLawGrrls posts here.)Born in New Haven, Connecticut, to immigrants from the Caribbean island of Nevis, Constance Baker was denied access to local public recreation areas as a teenager. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 3:30 am
(The legislative push was mentioned in this prior IntLawGrrls post.) [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 3:00 am
Sharp-eyed readers will note that we've moved to our righthand column the timer respecting the nomination of IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Dawn Johnsen to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.Day 173. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 1:47 pm
Senate just confirmed Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as the State Department's Legal Adviser in a roll call vote of 62 to 35.By IntLawGrrls' count, the vote came on the 94th day since Koh (right) was tapped to become State's top international lawyer. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 3:01 am
Eagle-eyed IntLawGrrls readers will have noticed a new byline gracing many of our "On This Day" posts this month. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 9:23 am
.'Until that final vote we IntLawGrrls, through our timer above, will keep on counting. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 3:05 am
(home institution of IntLawGrrls). [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 3:04 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for this opportunity to contribute this guest post on my current work on behalf of the United Nations)ââ [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 10:19 pm
We at IntLawGrrls have detailed Koh's immense qualifications here. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 9:03 pm
Over the years a number of us IntLawGrrls have talked about the importance of sports - tennis, soccer, track and field - in our lives.Now, on this 37th anniversary of the U.S. statute that called for parity between men's and women's sports - Title IX - comes Dr. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 3:02 am
IntLawGrrl Hope Lewis is right in her post below: not quite 'Nuff Said about what's happening in Iran. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 2:59 am
" The American Humanist Association has this to say:Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism and other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.One of IntLawGrrls' transnational foremothers, Olympe de Gouges, was a humanist. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 4:49 pm
--Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)(IntLawGrrl Naomi Norberg continues this exchange in her post above) [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 3:00 am
Serendipity:Soon after publishing yesterday's "a little networking can't hurt" post, we received this comment giving a bit of backstory on the news flash, posted by IntLawGrrl Stephanie Farrior earlier this month, that our colleague Dinah Shelton was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:This was an all IntLawGrrls effort -- we hosted a diplomatic campaign luncheon for Dinah at Johns Hopkins SAIS with a number of the Caribbean and Latin… [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 9:33 am
In Opuz v Turkey, discussed in a previous post on IntLawGrrls, the applicant alleged that the state bore responsibility under the European Convention on Human Rights for its failure to take action against her violent husband who repeatedly attacked her and killed her mother.The European Court had previously found state responsibility in a domestic violence case in Bevacqua and S. v. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 2:59 am
As associate of Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and IntLawGrrls transnational foremother, Abbott served as head of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor from 1921 to 1934. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 3:02 am
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Jacqueline Ross (left) as today's guest blogger.Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, Jacqueline is an internationally noted comparatist in the fields of evidence and criminal law and procedure. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 3:00 am
(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post on an article I published at 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 443 (2008), downloadable by subscription at the hyperlinked site; earlier, bepress.com version available here) In my recent article, Do Rules of Evidence Apply (Only) in the Courtroom? [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 3:05 am
Yet the dispute about which IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Mary Ellen O'Connell has posted -- a dispute fueled by the desire of the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to break away from Georgia and ally with welcoming neighbor Russia -- remains.And so yesterday Russia wielded its veto clout as 1 of the 5 permanent members of the U.N. [read post]
