AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearKey Term
Arlene S. Kanter THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RIGHTS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW 25 Georgia State University Law Review 527 (Spring, 2009) On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This Convention is the first binding international document addressing the rights of persons with disabilities worldwide. The core principles of the Convention include the right of all persons with disabilities to full and... 2009 Yes
Marsha Weissman ASPIRING TO THE IMPRACTICABLE: ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION IN THE ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION 33 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 235 (2009) In 1976, a remarkable handbook for reducing the reliance on incarceration was produced by a group of ordinary citizens known as the Prison Research Education Action Project (PREAP). Instead of Prisons was written to call attention to the overuse of incarceration at a time when the United States prison population was about 250,000. The handbook... 2009  
Sarah E. Greenlee CAST BACK INTO "TEMPEST-TOST" WATERS: THE "UNCHARTED SEAS" OF PRIVATE MEDICAL REPATRIATIONS 60 Case Western Reserve Law Review 281 (Fall, 2009) While driving on a Florida road during the course of his job as a gardener in the winter of 2000, Luis Jimenez was struck head-on by a drunk driver who had stolen a van. Two of Jimenez's fellow passengers were killed instantly. The driver and Jimenez, both severely injured, were taken to the emergency department at Martin Memorial Medical Center, a... 2009  
Emily A. Whitney CORRECTIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAMS AND THE ADOPTION OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS: HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN REDUCE RECIDIVISM AND PROMOTE THE NATIONAL INTEREST 18 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 777 (Fall 2009) I. Introduction. 778 II. Overview: Rehabilitation, Prisoners' Rights, and Demographics of the Prison Population. 779 A. Timeline: Developing the Concept of Rehabilitation. 780 B. A Survey on the Law of Prisoners' Rights. 782 1. Reluctant Jurists. 782 2. Taking Off the Kid Gloves. 784 3. Recent Developments. 785 C. Prison Demographics. 786 III.... 2009  
Robert Johnson, Ph.D. , Sonia Tabriz DEATH BY INCARCERATION AS A CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT WHEN APPLIED TO JUVENILES: EXTENDING ROPER TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, OUR OTHER DEATH PENALTY 9 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 241 (Fall 2009) In Roper v. Simmons, the United States Supreme Court held that juveniles could not be subjected to the death penalty. The Court emphasized that the well-documented immaturity of juveniles makes them less culpable for their crimes and less easily deterred by the threat of punishment. The Court also stressed the unformed characters of juveniles,... 2009  
Chauncee D. Smith DECONSTRUCTING THE PIPELINE: EVALUATING SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE EQUAL PROTECTION CASES THROUGH A STRUCTURAL RACISM FRAMEWORK 36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1009 (November, 2009) A man working in a munitions factory explains that he is not killing; he's just trying to get out a product. The same goes for the man who crates bombs in that factory. He's just packaging a product. He's not trying to kill anyone. So it goes until we come to the pilot who flies the plane that drops the bomb. Killing anyone? Certainly not, he's... 2009  
Meghan Theresa McCauley EMPOWERING CHANGE: BUILDING THE CASE FOR INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES 41 Arizona State Law Journal 1167 (Winter 2009) International law is part of [United States] law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as question of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. Old wounds of marginalization and exploitation continue for Indigenous Peoples (Indigenous Peoples), such as... 2009  
Alda Facio , Martha I. Morgan EQUITY OR EQUALITY FOR WOMEN? UNDERSTANDING CEDAW'S EQUALITY PRINCIPLES 60 Alabama Law Review 1133 (2009) Introduction. 1134 I. Beijing and Beyond: Background on the Debate. 1135 II. Equity vs. Equality: The CEDAW Committee. 1138 III. CEDAW's Equality Principles. 1142 A. The Principle of Nondiscrimination. 1142 B. The Principle of State Obligation. 1144 C. The Principle of Substantive Equality. 1146 1. Substantive Equality and Equality of Results. 1146... 2009  
Lori A. Nessel EXTERNALIZED BORDERS AND THE INVISIBLE REFUGEE 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 625 (Spring 2009) In October 2002, when twenty-year-old David Joseph's family was attacked and their home destroyed, he joined about two hundred other people and boarded a boat that carried them from the politically motivated violence in Haiti to Florida. Yet instead of finding the safety and freedom that he dreamed of, David was labeled a national security threat... 2009  
Tara J. Melish FROM PARADOX TO SUBSIDIARITY: THE UNITED STATES AND HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES 34 Yale Journal of International Law 389 (Summer 2009) I. Introduction. 390 II. Legal Context: The Human Rights Framework Applicable to the United States. 395 III. Supervisory Treaty Body System and the Scope of U.S. Engagement. 404 A. Periodic Reporting Process. 405 B. Individual and Collective Complaint Procedures and Precautionary Measures. 410 C. Other Promotional Mechanisms. 415 IV. Interest... 2009  
Barbara McDonald HOW A NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIAN TREATY STOPPED A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MEGABOMB 9 Nevada Law Journal 749 (Spring 2009) The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) created controversy beginning in 2006 when it announced its intention to detonate Divine Strake, a 700-ton fuel oil and fertilizer bomb at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The DTRA maintained the purpose of the bomb was to advance conventional weapons, even though government documents had described the... 2009  
Rebecca M. Bratspies HUMAN RIGHTS AND ARCTIC RESOURCES 15 Southwestern Journal of International Law 251 (2009) Look, this isn't the 15th Century. The huge irony is that [c]limate change is opening up the Arctic to oil and gas drilling, which almost certainly will cause more climate change. I. Introduction. 252 II. Some Background About the Arctic. 256 A. Place and Space. 256 B. Sovereignty and People. 261 III. A Brief Overview of the Relevant Law of the... 2009  
Martha F. Davis IN THE INTERESTS OF JUSTICE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN CIVIL CASES 25 Touro Law Review 147 (2009) The Civil Gideon right is an emerging international human right that is receiving increasing recognition on the international stage. As early as the 1940s, the human right to civil counsel was proposed by the United States during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Though it was not explicitly included in that foundational... 2009  
Nancy Northup INTRODUCTION 18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 391 (2009) This volume is the outgrowth of a panel discussion on New Scholarship on Reproductive Rights held at Columbia Law School on October 20, 2008 to celebrate the establishment of a new joint fellowship program of the Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School--The CRR-CLS Fellowship --as well as an initiative by the Center to stimulate... 2009  
  PANEL DISCUSSION: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON CIVIL RIGHT TO COUNSEL 25 Touro Law Review 81 (2009) The following is based on a transcript of a panel discussion which took place at An Obvious Truth: Creating an Action Blueprint for a Civil Right to Counsel in New York State, held at Touro Law Center, Central Islip, New York, in March 2008. Introduction A. Andrew Scherer. 82 I. The International Perspective A. Professor Martha F. Davis. 83 II. The... 2009  
Human Rights Program At Justice Now PRISONS AS A TOOL OF REPRODUCTIVE OPPRESSION 5 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 309 (October, 2009) I. Introduction. 310 II. Background. 313 A. Histories of Oppression: Eugenics and Reproductive Oppression in Communities of Color. 315 1. Native American Women. 316 2. Puerto Rican Women. 317 3. Mexican-American Women. 318 4. Black Women. 319 5. Asian-American Women. 319 III. Evidence of Reproductive Oppression within California Women's Prisons.... 2009  
Jamie Fellner RACE, DRUGS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 257 (2009) Since the mid-1980s, the United States has pursued aggressive law enforcement strategies to curtail the use and distribution of illegal drugs. The costs and benefits of this national war on drugs remain fiercely debated. What is not debatable, however, is that this ostensibly race-neutral effort has been waged primarily against black Americans.... 2009  
Jeannine Bell RESTRAINING THE HEARTLESS: RACIST SPEECH AND MINORITY RIGHTS 84 Indiana Law Journal 963 (Summer, 2009) It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law may not change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. In Spain on November 17, 2004, during a friendly soccer match between Spain and England, two Black players for the English team were subjected to monkey noises and racist slogans chanted by... 2009  
Hannibal Travis THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERESTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF TURKEY AND IRAQ 15 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 415 (Spring 2009) I. Defining Indigenous Peoples and Their Property Interests under International Law. 422 II. The Destruction of Indigenous Peoples' Cultural and Intellectual Property in Turkey and Iraq. 432 A. The Assyrians of Anatolia and Mesopotamia. 432 B. The Greeks of Anatolia and Cyprus. 451 C. The Jews of Anatolia and Mesopotamia. 461 D. The Mandaeans and... 2009  
Hope Lewis TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF RACE IN AMERICA 72 Albany Law Review 999 (2009) -Out of many, one people. Jamaica, the nation from which my parents and grandmothers migrated to the United States, includes a motto on its national coat of arms that is at once inspiring and yet disturbingly ironic: Out of many . . . one people. The embl 2009  
  UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS BERATE U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES AND PRACTICES 103 American Journal of International Law 594 (July, 2009) An array of U.S. policies and practices has received recent sharp recent criticism by UN human rights officials. The following is a sample of recent UN officials' speeches, reports, and recommendations critical of U.S. policies and practices. High Commissioner Calls for United States to Assure Accountability. In June 2009, UN High Commissioner for... 2009  
Nina Rabin UNSEEN PRISONERS: WOMEN IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION FACILITIES IN ARIZONA 23 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 695 (Summer, 2009) L1-2Introduction . L3696 I. Background. 698 A. The Basics of Immigration Detention. 698 B. Women in Immigration Detention. 702 1. A Growing Population. 702 2. A Population with Distinctive Characteristics and Needs. 703 C. The Facilities. 703 D. Applicable Standards. 706 1. Detention Standards. 706 2. Other Applicable Standards. 707 3. Gender... 2009  
Marjorie Cohn COLORBLIND INJUSTICE: ROBERTS COURT VIOLATES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MANDATES IN RACE CONVENTION 65 Guild Practitioner 68 (Summer, 2008) In 1619, twenty kidnapped Africans were brought to Virginia. Millions more were sold into slavery during nearly two and a half centuries, in one of the most shameful and pernicious periods in our history. Children were separated from their parents. Many of them grew up without ever knowing their mothers and fathers. After the Emancipation... 2008 Yes
Lindsay N. Wise PEOPLE NOT EQUAL: A GLIMPSE INTO THE USE OF PROFILING AND THE EFFECT A PENDING U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CASE MAY HAVE ON UNITED STATES' POLICY 14 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 303 (Spring, 2008) C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 303 II. Incidents of Unequal Treatment and Profiling of Aliens in the United States. 305 III. Why Profiling is Permitted When Applied to Aliens: An Overview of Immigration Law in the United States. 311 IV. Why the Plenary Power Doctrine Should be Modified to Prevent Discriminatory Profiling of Aliens. 314 V.... 2008 Yes
Hadar Harris RACE ACROSS BORDERS: THE U.S. AND ICERD 24 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 61 (Spring 2008) Malcolm X made the case for thinking about Race Across Boundaries: The American black man is the world's most shameful case of minority oppression . . . . How is a black man going to get civil rights before first he wins his human rights? If the American black man will start thinking about his human rights, and then start thinking of himself as... 2008 Yes
José A. Lindgren Alves RACE AND RELIGION IN THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 42 University of San Francisco Law Review 941 (Spring 2008) IN TODAY'S POSTMODERN WORLD, where previously cherished socio-political utopias give way to disbelief in universal values, religion has reemerged as a central component of secular activity. With that in mind, all institutions dealing with social matters must try to correctly understand and direct this seemingly anachronistic phenomenon towards... 2008 Yes
Angela Avis Holland RESOLVING THE DISSONANCE OF RODRIGUEZ AND THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AS A SOURCE OF REPOSE FOR THE UNITED STATES 41 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 229 (January, 2008) Education exists as a fundamental right recognized by countries worldwide. Overwhelming support for the right to education is reflected in international human rights instruments, including the International Convention on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Notwithstanding a near global consensus on... 2008 Yes
Connie de la Vega, Michelle Leighton SENTENCING OUR CHILDREN TO DIE IN PRISON: GLOBAL LAW AND PRACTICE 42 University of San Francisco Law Review 983 (Spring 2008) THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE SENTENCING of child offenders to a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of release or parole (LWOP). These are children convicted of crimes when younger than eighteen years of age, as defined by the international standards contained in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The LWOP sentence... 2008 Yes
Michael B. de Leeuw , Megan K. Whyte , Dale Ho , Catherine Meza , Alexis Karteron THE CURRENT STATE OF RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND HOUSING DISCRIMINATION: THE UNITED STATES' OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 13 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 337 (Spring 2008) The United States government accepted a number of obligations related to housing when it ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). For example, the United States government must ensure that all people enjoy the rights to housing and to own property, without distinction as to race; cease... 2008 Yes
Steve Charnovitz THE ILO CONVENTION ON FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND ITS FUTURE IN THE UNITED STATES 102 American Journal of International Law 90 (January, 2008) Freedom of association is a bedrock principle of international labor law. In 1919 the Allied powers expressed recognition of the principle of freedom of association in part XIII (Labour) of the Treaty of Versailles, which became the Constitution of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Nearly three decades later, in 1948, the ILO adopted... 2008 Yes
Patrick J. Glen TOWARDS THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DICTATORSHIP: A DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON DICTATORSHIP 14 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 15 (2008) The history of the 20th century has in large part been defined by atrocities and the international community's reaction to their commission. In the wake of the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities committed during World War Two, the Allies established the International Military Tribunal, along with other regional courts, to try the offenders. More... 2008 Yes
Christen Broecker "BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW": HOME STATE APPROACHES TO TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY 41 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 159 (Fall 2008) I. Introduction. 160 II. The Business and Human Rights Movement--From Reagan to Ruggie. 163 A. The Persistent Dilemma: Globalization and Human Rights. 163 B. The World's Response: The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Movement. 167 1. International Legal Efforts. 167 2. Soft-Law Efforts. 169 C. The Shortcomings of Existing CSR Initiatives.... 2008  
Larry Cox A MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES: REASONS FOR HOPE 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 135 (Fall 2008) It is a testimony to the power of human rights that the Columbia Human Rights Law Review is publishing a special issue on human rights in the United States. It has been sixty years, this year, since the governments of the United Nations, including the United States, approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In so doing they... 2008  
Risa E. Kaufman ACCESS TO THE COURTS AS A PRIVILEGE OR IMMUNITY OF NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP 40 Connecticut Law Review 1477 (July, 2008) This Article makes the claim that the right to court access for civil litigants, particularly the right to access the federal courts, is a privilege or immunity of national citizenship protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Civil litigants are thwarted in their efforts to access the courts by an increasing myriad of barriers. Supreme Court... 2008  
Latonia Williams AFRICAN AMERICAN HOMEOWNERSHIP AND THE DREAM DEFERRED: A DISPARATE IMPACT ARGUMENT AGAINST THE USE OF CREDIT SCORES IN HOMEOWNERSHIP INSURANCE UNDERWRITING 15 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 295 (Fall, 2008) This casenote argues that African-American homeownership is disparately impacted by the discriminatory use of credit scores in homeowner insurance underwriting, asserting a violation of § 3604 of the Fair Housing Act and advocating Congressional action banning this practice. The history of the American Dream of homeownership has historically been... 2008  
June Carbone AGE MATTERS: CLASS, FAMILY FORMATION, AND INEQUALITY 48 Santa Clara Law Review 901 (2008) Age matters. It matters legally--in giving consent for a contract, a marriage or enlistment in the armed forces. It matters practically--for renting a car, securing favorable insurance rates, and choosing a date. It certainly matters biologically--we are on the cusp of understating the age-related changes in emotion and cognition. And, I will argue... 2008  
Jenna Gruenstein AUSTRALIA'S NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACT: ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS INEQUITIES AT THE EXPENSE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS? 17 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 467 (March, 2008) In 2007, Australia passed the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act (NT Emergency Response Act), ostensibly reacting to a recent report detailing exceedingly high levels of sexual abuse of Aboriginal children. This Comment argues that the NT Emergency Response Act likely violates Australia's obligations under the United... 2008  
Eric Dannenmaier BEYOND INDIGENOUS PROPERTY RIGHTS: EXPLORING THE EMERGENCE OF A DISTINCTIVE CONNECTION DOCTRINE 86 Washington University Law Review 53 (2008) Human rights law has begun to offer normative protection for what remains of indigenous lands. Yet territory now better defended from conquest and encroachment is increasingly threatened by their byproducts. Water scarcity, food security, waste deposition, climate change--in short, the multiple impacts of industrial development--pose a new... 2008  
Deborah Labelle BRINGING HUMAN RIGHTS HOME TO THE WORLD OF DETENTION 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 79 (Fall 2008) Just over ten years ago, a poll of the American public conducted by Peter Hart Research Associates sought to gauge public knowledge and opinions on universal human rights. When the pollster queried, [d]o you believe that every person has basic rights that are common to all human beings, regardless of whether their government recognizes those... 2008  
Cynthia Soohoo , Suzanne Stolz BRINGING THEORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE HOME 77 Fordham Law Review 459 (November, 2008) A recent poll conducted by The Opportunity Agenda indicates that most Americans identify with human rights as a value and think that human rights violations are occurring in the United States. Eighty-one percent of Americans polled agreed that we should strive to uphold human rights in the United States because there are people being denied their... 2008  
Anna Triponel BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS LAW: DIVERGING TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE 23 American University International Law Review 855 (2008) L1-4,T4INTRODUCTION 856 I. L2-4,T4AMERICAN AND FRENCH METHODS FOR APPLYING HUMAN RIGHTS LAW TO CORPORATIONS 862 A. L3-4,T4Primary Actors in Ensuring Companies Comply with Human Rights 862. 1. States As Primary Actors. 862 2. Human Rights Affected by Business Activity. 867 B. L3-4,T4Diverging Methods of Ensuring Company Compliance with Human Rights... 2008  
Beth Lyon CHANGING TACTICS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE U.S. IMMIGRANT WORKER RIGHTS MOVEMENT 13 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 161 (Spring 2008) The American immigrant worker rights movement often shares overlapping missions with other US anti-poverty struggles. The fact that the immigrants' right movement is international, however, sets it apart from these struggles. It allows the immigrants' rights movement to utilize international strategies beneficial to its domestic work, and to claim... 2008  
Cynthia Soohoo CLOSE TO HOME: SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 7 (Fall 2008) Professor Louis Henkin has offered the following description of U.S. human rights policies: [I]n the cathedral of human rights, the United States is more like a flying buttress than a pillar--choosing to stand outside the international structure supporting the international human rights system, but without being willing to subject its own conduct... 2008  
Guy E. Carmi DIGNITY VERSUS LIBERTY: THE TWO WESTERN CULTURES OF FREE SPEECH 26 Boston University International Law Journal 277 (Fall 2008) This Article offers an original comparative model for assessing freedom of expression among Western democracies through the combined lenses of human dignity and liberty. Such a new model is necessary because of two fundamental flaws in our current understanding of free expression: incoherence and inaccurate terminology. This Article addresses the... 2008  
Dora Acherman DISCRIMINATION BY ANY OTHER NAME: ALTERNATIVES TO PROVING DELIBERATE INTENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM CASES 4 FIU Law Review 255 (Fall, 2008) I. Introduction. 256 II. Environmental Justice Claims Based on Civil Rights Legislation. 257 A. The Intent Requirement in Equal Protection and Title VI. 258 B. Claims of Disparate Impact Under Section 602 of Title VI. 261 C. The Future of Environmental Claims under Civil Rights Legislation. 264 III. Alternative Litigation Approaches to Civil Rights... 2008  
Laura Moranchek Hussain ENFORCING THE TREATY RIGHTS OF ALIENS 117 Yale Law Journal 680 (January, 2008) Despite the Supremacy Clause's declaration that treaties are the Law of the Land, efforts to incorporate treaties that guarantee individual rights into domestic law have been stymied by a wave of political opposition. Critics argue that giving these treaties the force of domestic law would be inconsistent with constitutional values like... 2008  
Catherine Powell FOREWORD 77 Fordham Law Review 399 (November, 2008) As one of its launch events, Fordham Law School's Leitner Center for International Law and Justice hosted the International Law and the Constitution: Terms of Engagement Symposium on October 4-5, 2007. The Symposium was the first of four symposia on human rights in the United States. The subsequent three symposia were hosted by Georgetown... 2008  
Onder Bakircioglu FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND HATE SPEECH 16 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 1 (Fall 2008) Sir, I do not share your views, but I would risk my life for your right to express them. - Voltaire Not very long ago, it was believed that the sun rotated around the earth, that unicorns existed, toads were poisonous, and that there could be no men living in the antipodes as it was believed they would fall off. Not until the 16 Century was the... 2008  
Jean Connolly Carmalt HOLDING THE U.S. ACCOUNTABLE: HOW AMERICAN HEALTH CARE FAILS TO MEET INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS 11 New York City Law Review 359 (Summer 2008) The United States does not have a healthcare system. Rather, people in the U.S. live and die with a messy collection of ad hoc attempts to structure care according to particular financing schemes. The result has been disastrous: tens of millions of Americans cannot access health care because they do not have health insurance or the personal... 2008  
Caroline Bettinger-López HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 19 (Fall 2008) On March 2, 2007, Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) spoke at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. about why she thought the United States was responsible for human rights violations against her and her deceased children. Before four commissioners, a U.S. State Department delegation, and members of the general public,... 2008  
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