A new issue of the International Review of Contemporary Law, IADL’s digital legal journal, has been released on 19 December 2020.
Edited by Evelyn Dürmayer, the issue focuses on broad themes related to democracy and feminism in the era of COVID-19. It addresses a wide range of topics, remembering Ebru Timtik, the lawyer in Turkey who lost her life on hunger strike for justice, and highlighting the call for fair trials in Turkey; addressing international gender violence and abuse; highlighting coastal erosion in Togo; chronicling the women’s movement for democracy in India; looking towards a Red Feminist future; calling attention to serious injustices at international tribunals; reviewing the trial of Golden Dawn in Greece; examining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; exploring neoliberalism and democracy; and confronting colonialism and reparations in Kanaky.
It includes articles in English, French and Turkish. Marjorie Cohn and Kathy Johnson participated in editing the issue, and Charlotte Kates laid out the issue.
See below for links to all articles:
Click here to download a PDF of the December 2020 issue of the Review.
Articles:
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Editor’s Note – IADL Review, December 2020 / Evelyn Dürmayer
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On Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Marjorie Cohn
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A life dedicated to justice and struggle: Ebru Timtik / Serife Ceren Uysal
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To use the right to a fair trial / Aytac Ünsal (Turkish: Adil yargilanma hakkini kullanabilmek için / Aytac Ünsal)
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Une bienveillante escroquerie en temps de pandémie / Une rescapée
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Violence against Women during Covid-19 Pandemic / Dinorah La Luz Feliciano
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Togo/ Erosion cotiere: Les femmes et jeunes filles du village de DOEVI KOPE très fragilisées / Bernard Anoumo Dodji Bokodjin et Nana Mariama Apou
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Indian women revive non-violent civil disobedience movements against the extinguishment of citizenship rights / Niloufer Bhagwat
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On Red Feminism: class, gender and historical materialism / Alfredo Campos
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The Treatment of the ICTR Acquitted: The “Achilles Heel” of International Criminal Justice / Beth S. Lyons
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After the verdict in the Golden Dawn trial / Ezgi Cakir interviews Thanasis Kampagiannis
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Between memoricide and revisionism: subsidies towards a pedagogical turn on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Miguel Régio de Almeida
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Neoliberalism and Democracy / António José Avelãs Nunes
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La Kanaky, le droit à l’indépendance bafoué / Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France
All articles published in the International Review of Contemporary Law reflect only the position of their author and not the position of the journal, nor of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.