How Uncertainty about Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process
Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues that could come before the courts?
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Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges
Business and human rights became an increasingly prominent feature on the international agenda in the 1990s.
Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts
Existing research maintains that governments delegate extreme, gratuitous, or excessively brutal violence to militias.
The Great Divergence: The Death Penalty in the United States and the Failure of Abolition in Transatlantic Perspective
This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States--a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal scholars, social scientists, and historians.
Extinguishing the Fires This Time
David Cameron is Abusing Magna Carta in Abolishing our Rights
Malcolm X in France, 1964-1965: Anti-Imperialism and Border Control in the Cold War Era
The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world.
Measuring Performance in a Modern Police Organization
Nothing but the Truth: Brazil's Truth Commission Looks Back
Existential Insecurity and the Geography of Religiosity
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices.
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