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25 Jun 2014, 8:25 am
The concept of constitutionalization now plays a key role not merely in the way that one conceives of efforts at the construction of networks of harmonized global standards in politics, economics, social, political and civil mores, but also in the way influential sectors of global society have tended to frame a range of issues--from corporate social responsibility and human rights, to the determinants of legitimacy in state and international organizations. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 12:45 pm
Virtually all of the great sports stadiums built in the United States up through the 1950s were constructed without the use of eminent domain or other similar tools of government coercion – including such iconic facilities as Fenway Park and the original Yankee Stadium. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 5:22 am
The law school lets faculty offer one-unit seminars on whatever topics they like, and they tend to be more theoretical than doctrinal. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 11:09 am
  This is a topic remains a sensitive topic in India; one might draw at least weak parallels to sensitivity in the United States toward class issues. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 7:00 pm
The GPs seek to better align states, business and civil society behind a common normative and policy framework, in order to generate larger-scale effects and cumulative change. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 4:15 am by SHG
Meet the United States Sentencing Guidelines Table: And now meet the Drug Quantity Table. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 11:55 am
How is the legal order responding as the world moves from a unipolar system dominated by the United States to a more multipolar system? [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 10:26 am
Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.[20] One of its core underlying premises is that both state’s in the fulfillment of their duty to protect individuals resident in their territories and enterprises in their “social” responsibilities ought to be guided by developing international and transnational norms and standards.[21] Most of these developments have occurred in and around the cluster of critical… [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 6:35 am by rainey Reitman
Book review and discussion questions for reading groups In No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald shows that a modern investigative reporter doesn’t just need the courage to take on the United States government and established media. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 6:50 am
  My recent focus has been on issues relating to the operationalization of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights (e.g., On Moving From Theory to Practice of Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights--Thoughts on the Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Frameworks Initiative (RAFI) Project), and on the state duty to protect human rights (e.g., On the Problem of the State in the State Duty to Protect… [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 5:06 am
In the United States, we are coming off a long run of enhanced penalties, minimum mandatory prison sentences, incarcerating addicts, and life-terming fully one in nine of those in custody. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 12:28 am by Katitza Rodriguez
” Jochai Ben-Avie, Policy Director, Access (United States - International):“The human rights that are negatively impacted by surveillance are some of the most treasured and the most easily invaded. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 8:25 am
He also urges States to protect civil society activists working on environmental issues, to ensure the enjoyment of human rights for all. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 5:46 am
Phelps), and false claims to possess the Medal of Honor (United States v. [read post]
As Becky Morgan and I reported earlier, the Law & Society Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis from May 29 through June 1, attracted terrifically interesting speakers, both from within and outside the United States. [read post]
31 May 2014, 11:35 am
  (e.g., On the Problem of the State in the State Duty to Protect Human Rights--Fostering National Action Plans as a Means of Refocusing the State Duty on the Business of the State Itself, May 10, 2014). [read post]