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President Obama and his Administration just released five new documents relating to the use of force, including detention, in counterterrorism operations against nonstate armed groups. The most important of these is this remarkable report, which comprehensively...

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) In 2014, the UN Human Rights Council established an open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, and mandated the working...

Reserved Area On 24 June 2012, Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “A Cruel and Unusual Record”, in which he stated “The United States is abandoning...

Before the 31st United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, 500 human rights organizations, law professors, former UN office holders, and high-profile rights defenders including four Nobel Peace Prize laureats and a Pulitzer Prize winner,...

We are waiting until we have more items loaded to promote the “big launch” — but the Case Western Reserve Law School Scholarly Commons is now live. The library has begun to load faculty publications, and will be adding many more in...