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Human Rights

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Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

The Art of Getting More Back in Diplomacy

Negotiation Lessons from North Korea, China, Libya, and the United Nations

By Eric N. Richardson
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Law, International Law

Why boardroom diplomacy fails

Lawyers Beyond Borders

Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts

By Maria Armoudian
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights

How American human rights lawyers fight for justice in U.S. Courts for international victims of violence

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism

By Roger Douglas
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Judicial Politics, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

In democratic states, the courts can help safeguard civil liberties against excessive legislative and executive efforts to combat terrorism

Hybrid Justice

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

By John D. Ciorciari & Anne Heindel
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

By John Parry
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Philosophy

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence

Sacred Violence

Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

By Paul W. Kahn
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism?

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