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In the last years of Chief Justice Rehnquist's tenure, the Supreme Court held that due process bars criminal prosecution of same-sex intimacy and that it is cruel and unusual to execute mentally retarded persons or juveniles. Each of the later decisions not only overruled precedents set earlier...
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, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the impacts of these markets. In Asia, these … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … trafficking) in Asia and worldwide. These developments have triggered extreme responses, such as Philippines' President Duterte …
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This article is a much revised and expanded version of a working paper that I posted a year or so ago. This revised version argues that the war on terror has accelerated the development of a new criminal process and that this new process has increasingly displaced traditional methods of...
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The article engages in an ideology critique of international criminal law texts and discourse, drawing on a theoretical framework developed by critical legal studies scholars in order to interrogate, in a different jurisprudential context, the assumptions undergirding contemporary international...
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This Article argues that despite the benefits of illicit enrichment for thwarting corruption, this offense violates fundamental human rights of the accused and therefore must be replaced by alternate enforcement mechanisms. Part I demonstrates how illicit enrichment surfaced as a mechanism to...
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Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo and his counsel are currently detained at The Hague, awaiting trial for alleged attempts to bribe witnesses and submit falsified evidence. This article utilizes those proceedings as a starting point for a broader discussion of criminal contempt proceedings brought by the...
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trafficked women.Taking Australia's policy response to the trafficking of women in the Asia-Pacific region as an example, the …
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In an increasingly unstable world order, there has never been a greater need for international cooperation in the fight … against transnational crime and terrorism. The operations of non-state armed groups, terrorists, and transnational criminal … lawyers or judges in the developing world, there is another sort of national institution that serves as a necessary …
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Timor Leste's formal legal system is in disarray. Its major legal institutions suffer from serious budgetary, competence and integrity problems. In recent years, countries with similar problems, such as Bangladesh and the Philippines, have allowed the use of local village-level dispute...
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This is the Twentieth Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It covers cases decided by American state or federal courts from January 1 to December 31, 2006, and reported during the same period. Of the 2,598 conflicts cases that met both of these parameters, the Survey focuses on the...
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