Tag Archives: Human Rights

Court date: 11th Circuit hears Chucky Taylor’s appeal

14th
May. × ’10

I sat in on oral arguments before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami the other morning. For anyone interested in extraterritorial justice and human rights law, this was a bit like a football fan nabbing seats to the first round of the playoffs. Absent the beer and exorbitant ticket price. I’ll be brief since [...]

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Diplomacy in action: 2009 Human Rights Report on Liberia

16th
Mar. × ’10

This is a perennial event in embassies around the world. The release of a country’s annual human rights report. In the months and weeks before these documents are made public, diplomats draft and revise and redraft an analysis of how a given country is meeting international human rights standards. Historically with Liberia, this provided an [...]

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