Forum shopping for human rights.
INTRODUCTION Individuals have now acquired the power to shape international human rights law. No longer found merely in aspirational or ambiguous treaties with limited practical impact on the lives of the people it was meant to protect, the law of human rights is being refined not only...

Adjudicating in anarchy: an expressive theory of international dispute resolution.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE PUZZLE OF COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION A. Unexplained Compliance with International Dispute Resolution B. The Broader Puzzle of Compliance Without Sanctions II. THE COORDINATING FUNCTION OF ADJUDICATION A. The Pervasive Problem of Coordination 1. Coordination in the Iterated Prisoners" Dilemma Game 2. Coordination...

Enforcing international conventions and customary international law in Canada.
International courts, such as the International Court of Justice at The Hague, deal with international disputes between States, not between individuals. Very recently, in 2002, the International Criminal Court came into being to deal with individual acts of genocide and serious human rights violations (approximately 90 countries have signed...

International law and the problem of evil.
ABSTRACT In response to recent violations of human rights, some within the international legal community have called not only for intervention but for the establishment of an international court with jurisdiction to hear claims against persons alleged to have committed those violations. This Article questions the premise...

International authority and state building: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
State building refers to efforts to reconstruct, or in some cases to establish for the first time, an effective indigenous government in a state or territory where no such capacity exists or where the capacity has been seriously eroded. How effective the government needs to be for this purpose...

The first U.N. Social Forum: history and analysis. .
As he has had with a number of other United Nations and international conferences, the author had the opportunity to attend the proceedings of the inaugural U.N. Social Forum as an observer and non-governmental delegate. The following article thus represents the author's impressions of events as he observed them....

Comparing local cross-border relations under the EU and NAFTA.
INTRODUCTION (1) The literature on cross-border relations provides us with different reasons for the existence and development of cross-border linkages (that is--the connections that span an international border); it suggests that such relations may take place because of (1) free trade, because they are in the interest...

After Iraq: the EU and global governance.
One of the central motivations for the Convention on the Future of Europe was to devise a way for the European Union (EU) to play a stronger and more effective role on the world stage. In spite of the Union's leadership on Kyoto, the Doha Development Round, and the...

Return to Europe? The Czech Republic and the EU's influence on its treatment of Roma.
ABSTRACT The Czech Republic has faced much criticism in the past fifteen years for the treatment of its Romani minority community. The European Union has successfully applied informal, non-legal means of pressuring the Czech Republic into making some changes necessary to improve living conditions for Roma. With...

European, Muslim and female.
As the European Union moves closer to the integration of the laws, institutions and policies of its constituent members, the fate of its ethnic and religious minorities assumes greater prominence. Ever since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty and the near-unanimous adoption of the euro as the EU's coin...