This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends
the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political …

Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an
increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary …

In the last weeks of 2001, Argentina experienced a financial collapse of catastrophic
proportions.'In one day alone, the Argentine peso lost 40% of its value. 2 As the peso …

The season for talk of leaving the Constitution behind, while we grit our teeth and do what
must be done in times of grave peril-the season for talk of saving the Constitution from the …

In 2004, India took a significant step forward for human rights by repealing the Prevention of
Terrorism Act of 2002, which had established a permissive set of legal rules to prosecute …

This article analyzes Indian occupation of Kashmir as a legal, social, and spatial process of
asserting power through borders and jurisdictional claims, produced and reproduced …

Although sometimes described as war, the fight against transnational jihadi groups (referred
to for shorthand as the" fight against terrorism") largely takes place away from any …

IS procreation in all circumstances just? Common wisdom tells us that both positive law and
the morality beneath it ensure our right to procreate freely-in other words, to procreate …

Times of heightened risk to the physical safety of their citizens inevitably cause democracies
to recalibrate their institutions and processes and to reinterpret existing legal norms, with …

A recent trend in conflict resolution is to use the process of constitution-drafting as a
peacemaking tool and the resultant constitution as a peace treaty, such as in Iraq …