by Harris Institute | Mar 4, 2016 | Foreign Affairs, Rule of Law, United Nations
By: Ihor Stratan The current sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the military crisis in Ukraine have an unusual legal status under international law because they were not introduced by an international organization but rather by individual countries. The...
by Harris Institute | Feb 29, 2016 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Foreign Affairs, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Rule of Law
By: Neil Schoenherr (Originally posted on The Source) President Barack Obama this week announced his intention to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The decision to open the facility in the first place was a bad idea in theory, made even worse in...
by Harris Institute | Feb 25, 2016 | Commercial Law, Uncategorized
By: Tamara L. Slater Earlier this month, alumnus Kevin Ray (PhD ’98, JD ’01), Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Chicago, gave a public lecture entitled “What’s Fair: Street Art, Appropriation Art, and the Law” to an overflowing classroom in the law school. His...
by Harris Institute | Jan 11, 2016 | International Humanitarian Law, Public Health
By: Teresa Yao GlobeMed, various campus groups, and the Harris World Law Institute brought Dr. Paul Farmer, a leading physician and anthropologist, to Washington University on November 6, 2015. He issued an urgent call to increase access to healthcare in the most...
by Harris Institute | Jan 6, 2016 | Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Rule of Law
By: Madaline George Constitutional term limits on a president’s tenure are common features in modern democracies. Seventy three percent of all presidential regimes at the end of 2009 used some form of presidential term limits, and in Africa two-thirds of countries...
