Quotas for Electing Women: Path to Empowerment or Peril? Part 2

Part II continues the discussion on whether legally mandated quotas should be used as affirmative mechanisms to increase women’s political representation in national legislatures. The discussion explores the advantages of legally mandated quotas systems used in 46 countries, the perils of quotas, and whether quota systems could be considered discriminatory under international human rights law.

Georgetown Law Graduation 2008

Oyez, oyez, oyez . . . Over the course of the past three years, learned professors at Georgetown University Law Center have continued the time-honored tradition of prying answers to practical problems, theoretical issues, and increasingly bizarre scenarios from the scrappy crew of students — including me — seated far beneath them in lecture halls. […]

International Law Submission Deadlines: October 2008

Upcoming submission deadlines in October 2008 for journals, conferences, symposiums, and student moot competitions.