Editors’ Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,
human rights, and the rule of law. [...]
Editors’ Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,
human rights, and the rule of law. [...]
On Apr. 1-5 and 11, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee will convene in a second “resumed session” to debate and discuss the International Law
Commission’s (ILC) Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity (Draft Articles). [...]
Vladimir Putin recently claimed victory as Russia’s president despite extensive evidence that the “election” was illegitimate in a number of ways. His repression, including
evidence of State-ordered assassinations and assassination attempts, and his manipulation of Russia’s legal systems and institutions seems to assure him power – [...]
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At the Law & Liberty site this morning, I review a new documentary on the history of religious freedom in America, “Free Exercise.” The film shows how minority religious
communities–Catholics, Mormons, and others–have changed America over time. But, I argue, America has changed minority religions as well. [...]
Andrew Jennings (Emory University School of Law) has posted Criminal Recordkeeping (Washington University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 1, 2024) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Business managers must create and keep records for decision-making. Yet doing so presents an... [...]
Richard R. W. Brooks (NYU), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern; Google Scholar) & Sarath Sanga (Yale; Google Scholar), Affirmative Action and Racial Diversity in U.S. Law Schools, 1980-2021:
We use novel data on enrollment in every U.S. law school since 1980 to study trends in racial diversity and the impact of state-level... [...]
Dans l’histoire des prisons, la philanthropie est ce mouvement qui a saisi des réformateurs, à diverses périodes, de la forte volonté d’améliorer, voire de transformer
le régime de punition et de détention. Il est indissociable de l’avènement des prisons en tant que peine, qui s’impose en Occident de la fin du XVIIIe siècle [...]
Ce séminaire, consacré à l’espace européen et à l’« Ancien Régime » au sens large, est conçu dans le long terme. Il se fixe pour objectif de présenter les recherches
actuelles sur le thème du « Parlement » élargi, en une perspective résolument interdisciplinaire, à toutes les grandes problématiques qui lui sont intimement [...]