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 […]
HHRJ Annual Symposium – International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Successes and Challenges
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 […]
Using Dias’ Legal Resources approach to Combat Manual Scavenging in India: A Human Rights Analysis
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 […]
Book Review: The International Rule of Law Movement: A Crisis of Legitimacy and the Way Forward
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 […]
The Power of the Keystroke: Is Social Media the Radical Democratizing Force We’ve Been Led to Believe it is?
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 […]
Why Non-Marital Children in the MENA Region Face a Risk of Statelessness
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. […]