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  • Human Trafficking

    See International Criminal Law – Transnational crime In late 2000, the United Nations for the first time in international law defined human trafficking in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (the Trafficking Protocol also called […]

  • Immigration Detention

    Immigration Detention Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, in common law countries (and in many civil…

  • Immigration Detention

    Immigration Detention Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, in common law countries (and in many civil…

  • Immigration Punishment

    Immigration Punishment The Historical Development of Immigration Punishment Understanding Immigration Punishment and Deportation Immigration Detention There is not agreement on the question as to whether immigration detention is or is not punishment. Not all all coercive forms of state power are punishment, but, in fact, immigration detainees senses their experiences of detention as punishment. Specially…

  • International Standards for Constitutional Religious Freedom Protections

    International Standards for Constitutional Religious Freedom Protections Several countries in the world are or soon will be drafting new constitutions. It is vital that these constitutions protect universal human rights, including the right to freedom of religion or belief. Based on its experience analyzing constitutions against international standards, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom…

  • List of International Human Rights Treaties

    List of International Human Rights Treaties There are nine core international human rights treaties, each established with a committee of experts to monitor implementation of the treaty provisions by its States parties. Some of the treaties are supplemented by optional protocols dealing with specific concerns. The treaties are: International Convention on the Elimination of All…

  • Encyclopedia of American Immigration

    Encyclopedia of American Immigration Bibliografic Details Editor: Carl L. Bankston III. Pasadena, California, University of Tulane Publisher: Salem Press Date of Publishing: 2010 Number of Vols: 3 vols. Pages: 1.000 ISBN: 978-1-58765-599-9 Note: Online access included with purchase of print. Reviews and Descriptions Review from ABA “This collection is aimed at high school and undergraduate…

  • List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entries: List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Listing of entries to the Encyclopedia by Author: Benjamin Aaron Professor of Law, Emeritus University of California, Los Angeles LABOR AND THE ANTITRUST LAWS Henry J.…

  • List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Articles and Contributors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entry: the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. List of Authors by Entry (A-Z): ADEQUATE STATE GROUNDS Kenneth L. Karst ADKINS V. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Leonard W. Levy ADLER V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF NEW YORK Martin Shapiro ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES Joseph Vining…

  • History of Zionism

    History of Zionism History of Zionism before 1910 During the middle ages, though the racial character of the Jews was being transformed by their Ghetto seclusion, the national yearning suffered no relaxation. If it expressed itself exclusively in literature, it was not on that account undergoing a process of idealization. (Cf. Abrahams’s Jewish Life in…

  • Constitutions

    Constitutions Identifying Constitutions: the concept of a constitution and its relationship with written documents A crucial, and not at all trivial, step is to identify a country ‘s “constitution” at any given time. The flood of institutional research over the last two decades has expanded and diluted the concept of a constitution. For many, constitutions…

  • Stimson’s Law Dictionary

    Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…

  • Refugees Part 18

    Refugees Part 18   271 The State of the World’s Refugees : Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action Arthur C. Helton International Journal of Refugee Law Volume 13, Number 1 & 2, January 2001 p.269-274 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 272 Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism. Jennifer Hyndman Ralph Wilde International Journal of…

  • Refugees Part 15

    Refugees Part 15   224 THE JEWISH Refugees FROM ARAB COUNTRIES: AN EXAMINATION OF Legal Rights -A CASE STUDY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF IRAQI JEWS Carole Basri Fordham International Law Journal Volume 26, Number 3, March 2003 p.656 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 225 The Impact of Terrorism on the Principle of ‘Non-Refoulement’…

  • Refugees Part 13

    Refugees Part 13   200 Protecting SSI Benefits for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Barbara Weiner Human Rights Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2004 p.11 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 201 In fear of refugees: the politics of Border Protection in Australia Richard Devetak International Journal of Human Rights Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2004 p.101-109…