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By Adam D. Dubin[1] On January 12, 2010, an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude shook Haiti, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions without homes and livelihoods. Families were destroyed, children were orphaned, and millions of people were forced into displacement camps throughout the country with little or no access to basic services. […] By Alexandra Winter Universal jurisdiction as it stands now is a poorly understood concept, owing partly to its modernity and the failure of states to distinguish it from prior jurisdictional methods such as extraterritorial jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction allows any state to bring proceedings against a perpetrator of a certain heinous crime regardless of the […] By Ryan Campbell The Inuit of Kivalina, Alaska, have begun to consider their legal options in determining how they are going to relate to other societies and corporations who have been contributing to climate change. This is because the ocean has been swallowing their homes,1 as the increasing strength of the waves erode their […] By Eduardo Jiménez Mayo The U.N.-brokered Guatemala Peace Accords of 1996, which ended the nation’s prolonged civil war (1960–96)—a period in which more than 100,000 people were killed and approximately 40,000 disappeared1—includes an Agreement on the Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Agreement).[2] Section II-B of the Agreement declares, “It is recognized that […] |
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