All Articles tagged human rights
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October 01, 2020 EDT This article uses New York City human rights law as a case study for how a local government may frame salary negotiation as a human right.
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January 01, 2018 EDT This article explores whether increased access to mental health care would help immigrants avoid the removal system and the needs of immigrants for mental health care.
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January 01, 2018 EDT Viewing the Catholic Church's response to widespread sexual abuse of minors through the lens of transitional justice shows that the Church failed. Instead, efforts at accountability should be survivor focused.
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May 25, 2017 EDT This article contends that indigenous peoples must develop and implement their own free, prior, and informed consent protocol in order to assert their human rights.
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May 27, 2016 EDT This article argues that because of the economic importance of the Social Security programs, client-centered advocates should not abandon the practice of Social Security disability law.
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March 23, 2015 EDT This note will consider the international human right to education for child refugees in the context of the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
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May 13, 2014 EDT This article examines the legal developments in South Africa with the collapse of formal apartheid, and outlines the broad contours of the constitutional text.
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November 11, 2011 EDT This essay proposes a strategy for litigating dignity, not only in those states in which dignity is an explicit constitutional principle, but more broadly.
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August 08, 2009 EDT This article considers the examine the implications of “Black diversity” or multidimensionality within Blackness.
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May 08, 2009 EDT This article suggests a new and potentially helpful perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that consists of looking more closely at the human rights implications.
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January 08, 2009 EDT This article traces the Nuremberg trials' influence on human rights litigation in the U.S. under the Alien Tort Statute.
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January 08, 2009 EDT This article demonstrates that Pelton’s application of the business judgment rule was unwarranted and unsupportable and that Pelton ignored the plain language of the City Human Rights Law.
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January 01, 2009 EDT This note provides some general common sense guidelines that can minimize a firm’s risk of litigation related to age discrimination in law firms.
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January 01, 2005 EDT Remarks from the symposium duscussion on Wartime Security and Constitutional Liberty