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Faculty Forum – Human Rights

Series Introduction: Issues of Equity and Justice in Education Policy

“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (Pledge of Allegiance, Original Version, Bellamy, 1892) If…  

Voting for Trump is Not like Voting for Brexit

Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have been playing up the possibility of a spillover effect from the recent British vote to leave the European Union. The…  

The Economic Impact of the Brexit Vote

The unexpected victory of the “Leave” camp in the British referendum of June 23 on whether to remain within the European Union has raised a host of economic questions for…  

A Thousand Years of Solitude

Hunter College Human Rights Program Director and Justia columnist Joanne Mariner comments on the situation endured by the more than a thousand prisoners who are held in solitary confinement, in…  

The Trial of the Century?

Posted on April 13th, 2012 · Posted in Faculty Forum - Human Rights, Roosevelt House Faculty Forum

With last week’s announcement that charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants had been authorized, the on-again, off-again military commission proceedings in the 9/11 case have now officially…  

The Hybrid Rules of Drone Warfare

Posted on March 26th, 2012 · Posted in Faculty Forum - Human Rights, Roosevelt House Faculty Forum

“I don’t think there’s any question but that we are at war,” said then-Attorney-General designate Eric Holder at his confirmation hearingin January 2009, agreeing with Senator Lindsey Graham that the United…