8 articles in this issue
Bridget McCormack
The adjudication of minor crimes has long proven onerous fordefendants. Recently, however, many American jurisdictions havesupplemented the “process” burdens associated with minor crimes.They have done so by requiring misdemeanor defendants to pay muchof ... see more
Lorne Sossin, Zimra Yetnikoff
Videoconferencing has generated ambivalence in the legal community.Some have heralded its promise of unprecedented access to justice,especially for geographically remote communities. Others, however, havequestioned whether videoconferencing undermines fai... see more
John Borneman
This article examines the state of “war crimes” today by thinkingthrough why the prosecution of war crimes has been frustrated forthe 2006 Israeli - Hezbollah War in Lebanon. Even though theinternational machinery for trying war crimes has been set up - a... see more
Jane S. Sutton, Nkanyiso Mpofu
This essay is about figuring “argument as dance” and one way of conceiving how to live or embody argument as such. Concretely, it displays “argument as war” alongside a road in Mississippi after a white man shoots down James Meredith as he asserts his leg... see more
Ian Duncanson
All political societies have peculiarities, and nothing special is to be concluded from the Anglophone focus of the present article. The theme here is that there was a schism between the fi rst and second British empires, not in itself an original thought... see more
Reem Bhadi
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Paul D. Ocheje
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza & Philip J. McConnaughay,eds., Human Rights, The Rule of Law, andDevelopment in Africa&Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, ed., Human RightsUnder African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise forOurselves
Adam Gearey