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Can genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes be pardoned or amnestied?
No full textArticle based on a lecture made at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on January 28, 2008 considering war crimes and the role of international tribunals and international criminal court. Article by Anees Ahmed and Merryn Quayle published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Defending human rights in Colombia
No full textThe author describes a fact-finding visit to Colombia by a group of UK lawyers in August 2008. The author is a Law Society Council Member, member of the Law Society's International Human Rights Committee with responsibility for Colombia, Director of Pro Bono at the College of Law, and an Associate Professor. Article by Sara Chandler published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Mulheres do morro: The Representation of Women in Brazilian Funk
No full textDissertation for the MA Area Studies (Latin America) submitted September 2008. Supervisor: David Treele
From right to privacy to personal autonomy: the changing nature of right to privacy in the US legal system (1965 – 2008)
No full textDissertation for the MA Area Studies (United States) submitted September 2008. Supervisor: Natasha Kumar Warikoo
Narratives of mothering
No full textThe first introductory chapter to Gill Rye, 'Narratives of Mothering: Women's Writing in Contemporary France' (Newark DE: University of Delaware Press, 2009). Chapter 1 sets out the rationale for the book, including the broad socio-cultural context and the issues it raises in relation to contemporary mothering in France. It outlines the structure of the book and its methodology, and introduces both the themes covered and the corpus of study. The following thematic chapters explore the phenomenon via case studies of texts published after 1990
In living memory: how does an oral history collection map the landscape of Greenham and Cookham Common ?
No full textA thesis submitted as a requirement of the MA in Cultural Memory at the IGRS, 2008-9. Also included are 26 sound files, being the interviews on which the dissertations was based, numbered 1-26
War Crimes: a call to action
No full textEditorial by Julian Harris, Deputy General Editor of Amicus Curiae. Editorial piece from issue 77 of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The general partnership in German law
No full textAn overview of the German OHG (offene Handelgesellschaft) and provisions of the German Commercial Code relating to commercial partnership. Article by Dr Frank Wooldridge published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
'Rich flames and hired tears': sugar, sub-imperial agents and the Cuban phoenix of empire
No full textThis paper analyses the importation of foreign steam technology into Cuba in the course of the nineteenth
century, and the experience of the migrant workers employed to operate it, in order to focus not on Cuba as an isolatable entity, but existing in the context of transnational networks that were involving the island in processes of globalization. This was, at the outset, a ‘sub-imperial’ globalization, operating independently, and implying liberation, from empire. The search for new technologies to enable improvements in sugar production necessarily took the Creole elite beyond the restricted possibilities of the Spanish empire to the industrial centres of the United States, Britain,and France. Such new links helped fuel the emergence of an independent Cuban identity; however, the same globalizing tendencies that were eroding the Spanish empire led Cuba into new forms of
imperial domination. The increasing expense of the new steam technology necessitated a growing dependence upon investment from foreign merchant banks, which gradually assumed control over much of the island’s production and trade. The same migrant engineers who had begun by assisting
Cuban planters took on the role of agents for foreign companies. Rather than contributing their skills, as one more group ofmigrants in a nation formed out of multiple migrations, these engineers asserted their foreign identity and guarded their privileged position. They came to be seen as symbolic of the process by which Cuba shook off the Spanish yoke only to replace it with another
