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 | 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...
by Harris Institute | Dec 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog with Opinio Juris while at the Paris climate change negotiations this week. I will aim in my blogs to complement Dan Bodansky’s excellent assessment of the negotiations among state parties by examining the...
by Harris Institute | Jul 21, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, Global Public Interest Law Internships, Uncategorized
By: Marla Borkson Nepal always has and always be a fascinating place for me. I lived here for five months last year with an INGO focused on education and the Nepal government’s new curriculum for early childhood development. So when I heard about the April 25...
by Harris Institute | Jun 24, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, Refugee and Asylum Law, Uncategorized
By: Donato Guido Loforese Donato follows the journey of an asylum seeker who travels from his home in Eritrea to Libya and across the Mediterranean Sea into Italy. His journey highlights many of the issues the international community is facing in dealing with the...
by Harris Institute | Jun 5, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, Global Public Interest Law Internships
By: Jim Ransdell Jim Ransdell, 2L, interned at Legal Resources Centre in Accra, Ghana during the Summer of 2014 as part of Washington University School of Law’s Global Public Interest Law Internships. This is the second in a series of posts by Jim where he shares his...
