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Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration (2018)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2018). Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration. Washington international law journal, 27(2), 449-484

The Republic of China on Taiwan (“Taiwan”) successfully and peacefully transitioned from authoritarian, one-party rule into a constitutional democracy in the early 1990s. However, due to the island’s complex international status and fraught relations... Read More about Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration.

Document and Analyze: The Legacy of Klemperer, Fraenkel and Neumann for Contemporary Human Rights Engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Oette, L. (2017). Document and Analyze: The Legacy of Klemperer, Fraenkel and Neumann for Contemporary Human Rights Engagement. Human Rights Quarterly, 39(4), 832-859. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2017.0051

Human rights discourse has been criticized for being legalistic, decontextualized, and failing to focus on factors explaining violations. Victor Klemperer’s diaries chronicled the life and suffering of a German Jew in Nazi Germany and the manipulatio... Read More about Document and Analyze: The Legacy of Klemperer, Fraenkel and Neumann for Contemporary Human Rights Engagement.

Migration Control A La Khartoum: EU External Engagement and Human Rights Protection in the Horn of Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Oette, L., & Babiker, M. A. (2017). Migration Control A La Khartoum: EU External Engagement and Human Rights Protection in the Horn of Africa. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 36(4), 64-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdx013

This article examines the European Union–Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative (the Khartoum Process), which is primarily aimed at combating human trafficking and smuggling in the region. It probes this partnership model in the field of external... Read More about Migration Control A La Khartoum: EU External Engagement and Human Rights Protection in the Horn of Africa.

International Conceptions of the Family (2017)
Journal Article
Banda, F., & Eekelaar, J. (2017). International Conceptions of the Family. International & Comparative Law Quarterly, 66(4), 833-862. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589317000288

This article examines the evolving way the ‘family’ and ‘family life’ have been understood in international and regional human rights instruments, and in the case law of the relevant institutions. It shows how the various structural components which... Read More about International Conceptions of the Family.

Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration (2017)
Book
Bano, S. (Ed.). (2017). Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration. Brandeis University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bhb9

Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law—such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation—have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of obtain... Read More about Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration.

Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order (2017)
Book
O'Connell, P. (2017). Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order. Hart

It is increasingly accepted that the promise of a globalised human rights systems, sits uneasily with the lived reality of a significant majority of the world's population. Human rights scholars, recognising this disjuncture, have suggested alternati... Read More about Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order.

The Legal Structures of Subordination: The Palestinian Minority and Israeli Law (2017)
Book Chapter
Sultany, N. The Legal Structures of Subordination: The Palestinian Minority and Israeli Law. In N. Rouhana, & S. Huneidi (Eds.), Israel and Its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privilege and Equal Citizenship (191-237). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107045316.008

Part I examines the conventional story about the rise of constitutionalism and judicial activism in Israel. I question the analytical utility of this story in evaluating the role of law in Israeli society. The chapter shows that, at least with respec... Read More about The Legal Structures of Subordination: The Palestinian Minority and Israeli Law.

Water Law and Policy in India: Background and Overview (2017)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., & Koonan, S. (2017). Water Law and Policy in India: Background and Overview. In P. Cullet, & S. Koonan (Eds.), Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments (1-20). Oxford University Press

Water Law in India (2017)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2017). Water Law in India. In C. Antons (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Law (323-338). Routledge

Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition (2017)
Book
Cullet, P., & Koonan, S. (Eds.). (2017). Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472475.001.0001

First published in 2011, Water Law in India is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the legal instruments concerning water in India. It presents a variety of national and state-level instruments that make up the complex and diverse field... Read More about Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition.