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Lawmaking for Global Crisis Situations
More likely than not, the world will be facing a series of serious crises, connected to climate change, environmental disasters, natural catastrophes, shortage of all kinds of raw materials and sources of mineral energy, as well as new financial crises.
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Liber Amicorum: Essays in honour of Professor Edwell Kaseke and Dr Mathias Nyenti
Oliver, Marius P., Letlhokwa G. Mpedi, and Evance Kalula. (Eds.). 2020. Liber Amicorum: Essays in honour of Professor Edwell Kaseke and Dr M...
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The Legacies of the International Criminal Court Intervention in Kenya
The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post-election violence commission report (GOK 2008).
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Shaping the Law for Global Crises
Jaap Spier. 2012. Shaping the Law for Global Crises. Eleven International Publishing. 292 pp. ISBN-10: 9490947431
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Using Courts of Law to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Case of Post-2010 Kenya
Oloka-Onyango, Joe. 2016. Using Courts of Law to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Case of Post-2010 Kenya. Law, Democracy & Developm...
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Categorical Rights and Vulnerable Groups: Moving Away from the Universal Human Being
Bossuyt, Marc. 2016. Categorical Rights and Vulnerable Groups: Moving Away from the Universal Human Being. The George Washington Internation...
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Introduction: Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood
Augenstein, Daniel and Hans Lindahl. 2016. Introduction: Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood. Indiana Journal of Global ...
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International Criminal Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change – The Impact on Institutional Reform Vol I
Bachmann, Klaus, Gerhard Kemp and Irena Ristić. (Eds.). 2018. International Criminal Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change – The Impact on ...
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The UN Optional Protocol on the Abolition of the Death Penalty
Bossuyt, Marc 2018. The UN Optional Protocol on the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Margaret M. DeGuzman and Diane Marie Amann, Eds., Arcs o...
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International Criminal Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change – The Impact on Media Coverage Vol 1
Bachmann, Klaus, Irena Ristić and Gerhard Kemp (Eds.). 2019. International Criminal Tribunals as Actors of Domestic Change – The Impact on M...
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South Africa and the emergence of international human rights
Time at STIAS will be devoted to the final updating and revision of a syllabus entitled The International Protection of Human Rights: A Critical Approach, which was used in 2015 at the College of Law of the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, to be published as a book in 2016 by Intersentia (Antwerp, Cambridge, Portland).
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Battling homophobia in the bid to protect East Africa's sexual minorities: A socio-legal analysis
Recent political and judicial battles over the rights of sexual minorities in East Africa have witnessed the introduction of new constricting legislation, judicial interventions and civil society action both in favour and against the expansion of the ‘right to love.
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Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood
How does a transformation of the boundaries of statehood contribute to recovering the public and political nature of human rights law beyond the international legal order of territorial states?
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Constitutional protection of economic and social rights in South Africa
This proposal forms part of a larger project on economic and social rights in general, and the right to housing in particular.
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The role of international law in the settlement of conflict: Apartheid South Africa, Namibia and Palestine
This study concerns the question whether the manner in which international law informed political consensus in South Africa and Namibia is of relevance to the settlement of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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South African social policies from a human rights perspective
The apartheid regime of South Africa persistently abstained from ratifying any of the major human rights treaties elaborated under the aegis of the United Nations after 1948.
