By Hannah Brennan & Burcu Kilic [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article I. Introduction On October 16, 2014, a new draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was leaked.[2] The TPP is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the governments of Australia, Brunei […]

By David J. Hotelling [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article Individuals with powerful ethical, moral, or religious beliefs can cause a quandary for political systems that seek to both protect individual consciousness and protect the State. The conscientious objector may hold a conviction or principle so strong that it causes the objector

When: Friday, March 27th, 2015 at Harvard Law School Sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Journal and Advocates for Human Rights With contributions from the Milbank Student Conference Fund Keynote Address by Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY: Where Has International Criminal Law Taken Us and Where Can it Go? with introductory remarks by Alex

By Devarshi Mukhopadhyay and Ramya Krishna Tenneti [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article INTRODUCTION: RE-ANALYZING THE CASTE QUESTION  In her essay “Can the Subaltern speak?” Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak raises questions about who speaks for whom when the subaltern of history becomes the subject of literary or any other kind of representation.[2] Spivak

 By Akhila Kolisetty [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article  In recent years, international institutions and organizations have transformed the reform of rule of law, particularly in post-conflict and fragile states, into an industry in its own right. Indeed, over 1,300 rule of law organizations have formed to address this problem, and over

By Bryan H. Druzin[1] and Jessica Li[2] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article   INTRODUCTION Mao Ze Dong famously proclaimed that power comes from the barrel of a gun; however, he also recognized the power of the pen.[3] Today, this pen comes mostly in the form of keystrokes on electronic devices, yet this insight

By Betsy Fisher, a Bates Fellow with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project [1]  Click here to access a PDF Version of this article Abstract International law guarantees each individual the right to a nationality. However, this right is not always realized in reality, and the Middle East is home to several of the world’s chronic stateless populations.

By Ayesha Malik, Contributing Editor of “islawmix.”[1]  Click to access PDF Version of this article It was a day that memorialised the 43rd anniversary of the Instrument of Surrender – a written agreement whereby West Pakistan’s forces surrendered during the revolutionary independence war of 1971 that created the Republic of Bangladesh – marking the fall

Richard Crook is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK and Honorary Professor of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He took his first degree in Law with Politics at the University of Durham, and obtained his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 1977.