Terror and Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law

Terror: Terror refers to action taken by the State that consists of political and military terror, which may take place both in times of war and peace for the purpose of social control or military action. In the cases of armed conflict, acts of terror may apply to methods of warfare and acts or threats
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Towards a global alliance to compensate for colonialism and its crimes

by Muhammed Khalil Al-Mousa * The idea of ​​colonialism has historically been based on the practice of imposing political, economic, social, cultural and legal domination by a foreign state, often a Western state, over a foreign territory and its inhabitants. Colonialism, which extended from the sixteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, was
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Poverty Law and Equality Rights: Preliminary Reflections

by James C. Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School Abstract The traditional governmental response to the phenomenon of poverty has been the enactment of legislation to permit or effect the transfer of some measure of economic resources to the poor. From feudal times to the present, governments of our political tradition have consistently embraced an
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Systemic Racism in the U.S. Immigration Laws

by Kevin R. Johnson, UC Davis Abstract This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of
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