Publications

The publications are 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.

For questions regarding publications on this list or to make a suggestion regarding this page, please contact the CCHR at cchr@nd.edu

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Books

“Elementary Experience and Law”
Andrea Simoncini, Lorenza Violini, Paolo Carozza, and Marta Cartabia. With a preface by Julian Carron.

Download the PDF version here.
Download the MOBI e-book file here (for Kindle users)
Download the EPUB e-book file here (For Nook users)

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Faculty & Scholar Working Papers

International Human Rights Law

• Luigi Crema, Are Amnesties Still an Option? A Non-Policy Based Critique of the Inter-American System

Law & Human Development

• Erik Longo, Seeking a Better Life: Human Welfare of Migrants in Irregular Situations in the United States and Europe

• Andrea Pin, Where the Streets Have No Name: Immigrants, National Identities, and the Consequences of a Narrow Universalism

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Stephen Poellot, The Responsibility to Solve

• Mauro Magatti, The Failure of Italy’s “Second Republic” and the Difficult Path to the Future

• Mauro Magatti, A Weberian Approach to the European Crisis: Why “Spirit” Matters

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Student Working Papers

International Human Rights Law

• 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

• Perseo Quiroz Rendon, Beyond subordination and legal fetishism: New reasons for Mexican federal judges to apply international human rights law, Working Paper No. 11, Spring 2012
  
  

Law & Human Development

• “Law, Policy, & Poverty: Entrepreneurship in Chile by and for Urban Poor Females.” (PDF Version)

• “Barriers to Entry: Entrepreneurship Among the Youth in Dandora, Kenya.” (PDF Version)

• Islam Without Borders: Transnationalism, Social Justice, and Refugee Assistance (PDF Version)

• Discriminatory Nationality Laws in Jordan and Their Effect on Mixed Refugee Families (PDF Version)

• ‘Bloody Foreigners!’ The Capabilities of Migrants in the UK (PDF Version)

• South American Dream: Migration Policies in Chile and Peru (PDF Version)

• Over the Wall: Law, Human Development, and the Migrant Communities of the Arizona Borderlands (PDF Version)

Research Tools

• Compendium of International Legal Instruments on Human Migration