Democracy, Governance, and Rule of Law

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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Honduras: Coup d’Etat in Constitutional Clothing?

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

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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

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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

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Christopher J. Borgen
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Spanish Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of Argentine Former Naval Officer for Crimes Against Humanity

In early November 2007, the Spanish Supreme Court's Criminal Chamber ("Supreme Court") released its judgment upholding, by a vote of 11-4, the conviction of former Argentine naval officer Adolfo Scilingo for his involvement in murders and illegal detentions in Argentina. Scilingo was convicted by a trial chamber of the Audiencia Nacional ("Audiencia"), Spain's special court for serious international crimes.

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Richard J. Wilson
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