Democracy, Governance, and Rule of Law

Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The First Orders by the Pre-Trial Judge

I. Introduction

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos
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Honduras: ¿Golpe de Estado en Vestido Constitucional?

Presentación

El reciente cambio de facto de gobierno en Honduras se rodea por confusión jurídica. Algo de ella es consecuencia del debate político apasionado sobre el Presidente Manuel Zelaya y su destitución de facto. Sin entrar en ese debate, este análisis se dirige exclusivamente al derecho internacional y a las cuestiones jurídicas relacionadas.

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Doug Cassel
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Honduras: Coup d’Etat in Constitutional Clothing?

Introduction

Legal confusion has clouded the recent de facto change of government in Honduras. Some of this arises from the passionate political debate over President Manuel Zelaya and his de facto removal. Without entering that debate, this analysis addresses only questions of international law and related questions of law.

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Doug Cassel
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Is Bagram the New Guantánamo? Habeas Corpus and Maqaleh v. Gates

Introduction

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Kal Raustiala
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Ten Years After the War in Kosovo: International Law, Kosovo and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Introduction

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Linda Strite Murnane
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The Torture Memos and Accountability

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Allen S. Weiner
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International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

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Eugene Kontorovich
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The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights

The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises,[1] John Ruggie, submitted his final Report to the Human Rights Council on June 3, 2008.[2] The Report and its attendant documents

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Christiana Ochoa
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Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al.: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law

On April 3, 2008, Trial Chamber I (Trial Chamber) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) delivered the judgment in Prosecutor v.

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Anthony Cullen & Marko Divac Öberg
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Kosovo's Declaration of Independence: Self-Determination, Secession and Recognition

Introduction

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Christopher J. Borgen
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