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From Africa to Europe: The Journey of an Asylum Seeker
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...
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UN ILC Debates Crimes Against Humanity
By: Madaline George I recently spent two weeks in Geneva, Switzerland to observe the United Nations International Law Commission discuss the first report on crimes against humanity. This was a milestone moment, as the Harris Institute has been working on the drafting...
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Observations at the Ghana’s High Court in Accra
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...
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Global Perspectives on Colorism: Stepping Towards a Solution!
By: Neha Mishra, M.S. Ramaiah College of Law The two day Colorism Conference, hosted jointly by Washington University School of Law and Harris World Law Institute, established beyond a reasonable doubt that the problem of skin colour prejudice is prevalent all across...
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Education is Somalia’s Key to Success
By: Abadir Barre Abadir Barre, 2L, worked at Puntland Legal Aid Center (PLAC) in northern Somali during the summer of 2014 as part of Washington University School of Law’s Global Public Interest Law Fellows Internship Program. This summer he will be working at the...
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Beginning the Dialogue: Global Perspectives on Colorism
By: Vinay Harpalani, Savannah Law School On April 2 and 3, 2015, I had the privilege of presenting at the Global Perspectives on Colorism conference, sponsored by Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. While there...
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United Nations Association of the United States Members’ Day Meeting
By: Marla Borkson I had the opportunity to attend the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Members’ Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York this past February. UNA-USA is one of sixteen branches under the Better World...
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Prosecutor Serge Brammertz Lectures: “International Justice: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?”
By: Isaac Amon Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) recently delivered a lecture at Washington University School of Law, International Justice: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning? He...
read moreProf. Norwood’s Book Explores Boundaries of Colorism
For Kimberly Jade Norwood, Washington University professor of law and African & African American studies, the topic of her newly released book, Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America (Routledge, 2013), strikes close...
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Comments on Preliminary Draft 3, Restatement of the Law Fourth: The Foreign Relations Law of the United States: Treaties
By: Leila Nadya Sadat In 2012, the American Law Institute (ALI) was approached by Professors Paul Stephan and Sarah Cleveland to do a new Restatement Fourth of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Their proposal posited that, with the end of the Cold War...
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