Working Paper Series

The CCHR is pleased to introduce a Working Paper Series featuring research papers mainly by students but also by faculty and staff of CCHR. The papers cover a wide range of issues in international human rights law and are downloadable in pdf format. The views and opinions expressed in the papers are those of the author(s) and not the CCHR or Notre Dame Law School.

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Ayad Derbal, The ICC’s Involvement in the Situation in Darfur: Not a Threat to Peace, Working Paper No. 1, Winter 2008

Andres Pizarro Sotomayor, The Rule Against Duplication of Procedures in the Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection, Working Paper No. 2, Spring 2009

Katherine C. Reilly, Colombia: The 2008 Extraditions and the Search for Justice, Working Paper No. 3 Winter 2008

Reshma Thapa, Nepal´s Failure to Address Torture: The Relevance of the UN Torture Convention, Working Paper No. 4, Winter 2008

Rose Nakayi, Reaching Out for Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda: The Proposed War Crimes Court and Traditional Justice, Working Paper No. 5, Winter 2008

Paula S. Cuellar, The Judicial Enforceability of the Individual Dimension of the Right to Truth Through the Writ of Amparo in El Salvador, Working Paper No. 6, Spring 2010

Kim Juanita Williams, The Role of Education as a Guarantee of Non-Repetition in a Transitional Process: A Case Study of the South African Farm-Schooling System, Working Paper No. 8, Spring 2010

Matthew J. Jowanna, Torture, American Style: A Recipe for Civil Tort Immunity, Working Paper No. 9, Spring 2010

Mirakmal Niyazmatov, Problematic Exclusiveness of Convention Against Torture’s Exclusionary Rule: General Principles Of Law as a More Coherent Solution, Working Paper No. 10, Fall 2011