Same-sex marriage in Latin America promise and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…LGBT rights and the Latin American Left today / Shawn Schulenberg -- Support for same-sex marriage in Latin America / Germ�an Lodola and Margarita Corral -- Variations in the judicialization of same-sex marriage politics in Latin America / Jason Pierceson -- Same-sex partnership rights in Central America: the case of Panama / Shawn Schulenberg -- The creation of civil partnerships in Uruguay / Diego Sempol -- Same-sex couples in Colombia: three models for their legal and political recognition / Daniel Bonilla -- Legal mobilization and the road to same-sex marriage in Argentina / Maria Gracia And�ia -- The battle for marriage equality in Mexico, 2001-2011 / Genaro Lozano.…”
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Security a multidisciplinary normative approach /

Table of Contents: “…Guiora -- The obligation to remove and destroy anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war in peace operations / Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen -- A new treaty banning cluster munitions : the interplay between disarmament diplomacy and humanitarian requirements / Gro Nystuen -- Private versus citizen-soldiers : new mercenarism in a just-war framework / Lene Bomann-Larsen -- The "unrule" of law : unintended consequences of applying the responsibility to prevent to counterterrorism, a case study of Colombia's raid in Ecuador / Cecilia M. Bailliet -- Democratic security / Christopher Kutz -- Global procedural rights and security / Larry May -- Women's security/state security / Naomi Cahn -- Security in a "warming world" : competences of the UN Security Council for preventing dangerous climate change / Christina Voigt -- Environmental security and the UN Security Council / Jo Stigen & Ole Kristian Fauchald -- Pragmatic law for international security / Sean Kanuck.…”
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Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land /

Table of Contents: “…Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White -- State involvement, land grabbing and counter-insurgency in colombia / Jacobo Grajales -- Road mapping : megaprojects and land grabs in the northern guatemalan lowlands / Liza Grandia -- Land regularization in brazil and the global land grab / Gustavo de L.T. …”
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Affirmative action and the law : efficacy of national and international approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Elvira Dominguez Redondo and Erica Howard -- Universalism or fragmentation : United Nations Treaty bodies and affirmative actions in Latin-America, the United Kingdom, South Africa, China, and India / Elvira Dominguez Redondo -- Unravelling history and undermining law through politics : the erosion of diversity protection and emerging existential threats to India and China / Joshua Castellino and Sayantani Sen -- Efficacy of affirmative action measures in the United Kingdom and South Africa / Erica Howard -- Effectiveness of affirmative action measures in Brazil / Narciso Leandro Xavier Baez -- The implementation process of affirmative action measures in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru / Iván Obando Camino, Gustavo Rayo-Urrutia, Alberto Olivares-Gallardo, Rodrigo Hernández-Fernandez -- Affirmative actions in Central America : influence of the international legislation and jurisprudence of the inter-American system / Amalia Patricia Cobos Campos -- Women on corporate boards of public listed companies -- a UK and EU gender diversity conundrum / Hamiisi Junior Nsubuga -- Persons with disabilities and access to higher education in Brazil / Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet and Gabrielle Bezerra Sales Sarlet -- Achieving substantive equality : mainstreaming duties to complement affirmative action measures / Erica Howard -- Conclusion / Elvira Dominguez Redondo and Erica Howard.…”
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Rethinking the law of armed conflict in an age of terrorism

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