People around the world are on the move, pushed by external events such as civil war, political upheaval, and increasingly environmental disasters and pulled by the lure of a better life, a better job, a better way to provide for their families. The United States has created an inconsistent...

Over the past fifty-odd years, nations of the world have been grappling with the extent to which they should intervene in the wars of others, or whether to intervene at all. Some of the State-level soul searching is pragmatic and strategic. The pragmatic argument justifying intervention is that...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), there is a vast and sprawling marketplace that sprang up just as the peace accords were going into effect, bringing to some conclusion three and a half years of bloody ethnic fighting. The place is called Arizona Market and it was said by some to be a shining...

Submission to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Summary: The Good Friday or Belfast Agreement 1998 envisaged reforms that would contribute to wider social and economic transformation, among these a Bill of Rights. Many of these reforms have not been delivered and...

As the Universal Declaration on Human Rights celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this article examines the gendered foundations of the document. Drawing on its drafting history the article concludes that despite considerable advances contained within it the document has many limitations. Over...

This article asserts that a challenge exists in deflecting the prevailing view that a general gap of legal applicability exists in respect of legal regulation of the war on terror. This "gap" is articulated by a focus on a new phenomena¿namely the emergence of Al Qaeda as a nonnationally...

The United Nations Secretary-General’s adoption of a Guidance Note on Reparations for Conflict-related Sexual Violence (2014) marks an important supplement to recent normative developments in the area of gender-sensitive reparations. Despite these progressive normative advances, there remain...

In the immediate aftermath of the Global Summit on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, this paper examines the gendered politics of fact-finding. In the context of a decade plus of the Women, Peace and Security agenda and a flurry of UN Security Council Resolutions this paper gives close...

International human rights and international humanitarian law broadly agree on the framework principles applicable to the administration of justice, including military jurisdiction. Among these general principles are included the notion of equality before courts; the right of every person to be...