Over the last few decades, the Middle East has emerged as the site of an unprecedented
increase in violence between Muslims, Christians, and other religious minorities. While the …

The last fifteen years have seen a proliferation of peace agreements. Some 50 percent of
civil wars have terminated in peace agreements since 1990, more than in the previous two …

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of peace agreements from a legal
perspective. It describes and evaluates the development of contemporary peace processes …

An ethical legal Orientalism attends to the conditions of legal subject formation: rather than
positing the Chinese as simply lacking legal subjectivity, it allows for the possibility of …

International Law and Human Rights seeks to bring to the reader high-quality research in
international law with particular emphasis on the theoretical and historical aspects of the …

This article asserts that 'transitional justice'analyses provide important tools in understanding
how societies emerge from violent politics. It argues for a conception of transitional justice …

This headline in the 23 November 1999 edition of the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
quoted Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 1 She was …

British constitutional legal discourse is structurally limited in its capacity to capture the
complexity of the Good Friday Agreement. Rather than assessing the Agreement in narrow …

Set against previous stages of minority protection under international law, this book
discusses the role of courts and court-like bodies–particularly in the Americas, Africa and …

Since the 1990's, American presidents have been willing to unleash the massive military
arsenal of the world's last superpower into the territories of other states without the formal …