February 2021

Algorithmic Detention and International Human Rights Law Hannah Kannegieter[*]   Two regimes in international law regulate detention—international humanitarian law (“IHL”) and international human rights law (“IHRL”). Both regimes may operate simultaneously and in the same place.[1] The International Court of Justice has explained that “the [non-derogable] protection[s] offered by human rights conventions do not cease […]

Venezuela: From Human Rights Transgressions to Constitutional Paradox Humberto Briceno Leon[*]   I. Introduction In 1999, then-President Hugo Chávez introduced an anti-democratic socialist regime in Venezuela: socialism of the twenty-first century (SXXIC). While the SXXIC campaign comprised wide-ranging economic reforms, it also sought to replace “representative democracy” with an ostensibly “participatory democracy” through a Constituent