This paper raises the question whether UNAMSIL personnel could be awarded a civilian status during the armed conflict in Sierra Leone. According to the Special Court of Sierra Leone, while analysing what has been known as the RUF case, armed attacks on UNAMSIL personnel constitute a violation of...

United States constitutional law and theory has not focused on the poor lately. Yet poverty rates in the U.S. have reached their highest levels in 50 years. The great wealth disparities in the U.S. are at least partly responsible for the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and perhaps even the Tea...