IRLS Dispatch Student Articles
The State’s Due Diligence Obligation to Respond to Violence Against Women
Maria McCabe. Maria is a 2L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She was an IRLS fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. She is currently co-president of the ASU Chapter of the American Constitution Society, a staff writer for the Arizona State Law Journal, and on the board of the International Law Society. She completed a summer internship with the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa in 2021. Warning:
ASU Law professor examines voting rights at a critical time for election law
Jacob Kostrzewski, IRLS Program Coordinator, recently sat down with Professor Joshua Sellers, an election law scholar, researcher, and professor at the College of Law, to discuss his recent research, the Election Law course he teaches, and his thoughts on voting rights issues in the United States. IRLS Dispatch: What do you focus on within the topic of voting rights? Professor Sellers: My primary field of research and teaching, Election Law, focuses on the legal structures
The Consequences of Gender Inequality in Property Rights in Uganda
Haley Bjorn. Haley is a 2L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She completed a summer internship with the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa in 2021. When I accepted an internship with the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), I had no idea how important property law would be in the fight for gender equality in Uganda. ISLA is a South Africa-based organization that works to further
The President must go! Presidential impeachment in Timor-Leste and lessons from around the world
Freeman Halle. Freeman is a 2L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and an International Rule of Law and Security Fellow. Freeman worked as a legal intern with the Judicial System Monitoring Program during the Summer of 2021 studying Timor-Leste’s laws on presidential impeachment. This summer I had the great privilege of interning with the Judicial System Monitoring Program. JSMP is a Timorese-led non-profit that was created to monitor the Ad Hoc Human Rights
Learning from Corruption and Violent Unrest in South Africa
Emilio Giuliani III. Emilio is a 2L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, the Vice President of the International Law Society and an IRLS Fellow. Emilio worked as a legal research assistant for Corruption Watch South Africa over the (northern hemisphere’s) summer of 2021. Over the course of my summer internship, I engaged in substantive legal work for Corruption Watch, a South African non-profit organization that has been working
Amb. Williamson: Statement on the Denial of Mladić’s Final Appeal
Ambassador Clint Williamson. Ambassador Williamson is the Senior Director of the International Rule of Law and Security Program at the McCain Institute, and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he teaches International Criminal Justice. Amb. Williamson is the former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues and served as a Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY). The news that Ratko Mladić’s final appeal was denied