Academic Journals

SCHOLARLY & JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. “Minnesota Should Lead The U.S.’s Unfinished Journey From Slavery To Granting All U.S. Citizens The Right To Vote,” Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice, The Quadriga, November 13, 2020. Co-authored with Adela Carrasco
  2. “Human Rights Promoting Procurement – A Concrete Means to Build Back Better,” in Building Back Better: A Call for Courage in the post-COVID-19 World (FES). Co-authored with Juan Pablo Salinas. Oct. 2020.
  3. “The Minnesota Method for Human Rights Change,” Sur International Journal on Human Rights, Issue 30 (August, 2020). Co-authored with Shelby Ankrom, Gonxhe Kandri, Paul Olubayo, Hannah Shireman, Alli Strong-Martin, and Amelia Shindelar (2020).
  4. “Multi-State Responsibility for Extraterritorial Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in “International Human Rights Law: 60 Years After the UDHR” Mashood Baderin and Manisuli Senyonjo, eds. (2010).
  5. “How, El Rescate, a Small Non-governmental Organization Contributed to the Transformation of the Human Rights Situation in El Salvador”, 30 Human Rights Quarterly 703 (2008).
  6. “Multi-State Responsibility for Extraterritorial Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” 35 Denver Journal International Law & Policy 389 (2007).
  7. “Peacekeeping and Conformity with Human Rights Law – How MINUSTAH Falls Short in
    Haiti,” 13(4) International Peacekeeping 462 (2006).
  8. “Evolving Practice in the Field: Informing the International Legal Obligation to ‘Protect’,” 34 Denver Journal International Law & Policy, 29 (2006).
  9. “UN Human Rights Field Presence as Proactive Instrument of Peace and Social Change: Lessons from Angola,” 26(1) Human Rights Quarterly (2004). Reprinted in The Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory and Practice (2006).
  10. “Os Direitos Humanos e Paz,” Congresso Pro Pace Documentos, Luanda, July 18-21, 2000 at 112.  (Human Rights and Peace, in the Pro Peace Congress Documents.)
  11. “Learning to Make Proactive Human Rights Interventions Effective – the Carter Center and Ethiopia’s Office of the Special Prosecutor,” 18(2) Wisconsin Int’l Law Journal 407 (2000).
  12. “Mirage, Magic, or Mixed Bag?  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’
    Field Operation in Rwanda”, 21 Human Rights Quarterly 1 (1999).
  13. “The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal, Is It Justice or Jingoism For Rwanda? A Call for
    Transformation.” 39 Virginia Journal of International Law 135 (1998).  Co-authored by William Calathes.
  14. “Refoulement of Rwandan Refugees – The UNHCR’s Lost Opportunity to Ground Temporary Refuge in Human Rights Law,” 4 U. California – Davis J. International Law & Policy 73 (1998).
  15. “The Killing of UN Human Rights Workers – A Call for an Appropriate UN Response.” 5 Human Rights Tribune 9 (April 1998).  A more extensive piece on the same subject appears as: “Rhetoric, Regret and Reform – The Need for an Appropriate UN Response to the Killing of Human Rights Workers,” 58-59 The Review of the International Commission of Jurists 124 (1997).
  16. “Rael v. Taylor and the Colorado Constitution – How Human Rights Law Ensures Constitutional Protection in the Private Sphere,” 26 Denv. J. International Law & Policy 1 (1997).
  17. “Determining the Legitimacy of Spanish Land Grants in Colorado: Conflicting Values, Legal
    Pluralism, and Demystification of the Sangre De Cristo/Rael Case”;  Co-authored by Richard Garcia. 16 Chicano Law Review 39 (1995).
  18. “Spanish/Mexican Land Grants in Contemporary Court Cases – The Use of Legal Pluralism and Human Rights to Demystify the Sangre de Cristo/Taylor Case.” Co-authored by Richard Garcia. 16 Chicano Law Review 39 (1995).
  19. “Are the Salvadoran Peace Accords Treaties?  An Emerging International Legal Perspective on the Legal Nature of a Liberation Movement”; presented to the 2nd Conference of International Jurists organized by the Institute of Legal Studies of El Salvador.  May 7-9, 1992. (Published in the ” memoria” of the conference).
  20. “Safe Haven for Salvadorans in the Context of Contemporary International Law – A Case Study in Equivocation” 29(4) San Diego Law Review 671 (Fall 1992).  Co-authored by Amy Beer, Tim Everett, and Evangeline Nichols Ordaz.
  21. “Free Trade and the Need for Integration of International Worker Rights Protections”; Presented in Mexico City in July 1991, at a conference sponsored by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.  (Published in the “memoria” of the conference.)
  22. “Amnistía, impunidad y necesidad de una solución negociada (Amnesty, Impunity, and the Need for a Negotiated Solution)” Año XLV Estudios Centroamericanos 279 (Abril/Mayo 1990) (A publication from El Salvador).
  23. “Litigation and Social Change.”  Presented at the First Conference of International Jurists in
    December 1990 in El Salvador.  (Published in the “memoria” of the conference.)
  24. “International Human Rights Violations of Traditional Native Americans – The Big Mountain
    Controversy”, 15(2-3) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 339 (1987). Estudios CentroAmericanos, The Crisis with the Judicial System, April-May 1990.
  25. “The Refugee Crisis and International Law:  The City of Refuge Response”, in Refugee Law and Policy 185 (Ved P. Nanda ed. 1989).  Co-authored by Richard Garcia.
  26. “Can International Law Prevent Another Bhopal Tragedy?” 15(2,3) Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 301 (1987).
  27. “Chernobyl and Acid Deposition:  An Overview and Analysis of the Failure of European Cooperation to Protect Their Shared Environment," 2(1)  Temple Journal of International”, Comparative Law 1 (1988).
  28. “Cuban Environmental Law:  An Analysis from International Right to Development Perspective”, 2  La Raza Law Journal 62 (1988).  Coauthored by Richard Garcia.
  29. “U.S. Law as a Tool of Forced Social Change:  A Contextual Examination of the Human Rights Violations by the United States Government Against Native Americans at Big Mountain”, 7(1) Boston College Third World Law Journal 61 (1987).
  30. “International Human Rights Violations of Traditional Native Americans – The Big Mountain Controversy,” 15(2-3) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 339 (1987).
  31. “A Comparative Analysis of the Changing Definition of a Refugee”; 5(1) New York Law
    School Journal of Human Rights 33 (1987).

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