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Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures. Edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2002, Pp. xxxi, 646. Index. $125.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Carolyn Patty Blum*
Affiliation:
Boalt Hall Law School University of California, Berkeley

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 Fitzpatrick, Joan, Human Rights in Crisis: The International System for Protecting Rights During States of Emergency (1994)Google Scholar.

2 Weissbrodt, David, Fitzpatrick, Joan, & Newman, Frank, International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process (3d ed. 2001)Google Scholar; Paust, Jordan J., Fitzpatrick, Joan, & Van Dyke, Jon M., International Law and Litigation in the U.S. (2000)Google Scholar; Secrecy and Liberty: National Security, Freedom of Expression, and Access to Information (Coliver, Sandra, Hoffman, Paul, Fitzpatrick, Joan, & Bowen, Stephen eds., 1999)Google Scholar.

3 The center maintains a Web site at <http://www.cja.org>. Fitzpatrick wrote extensively on the subject of achieving accountability for human rights violations in U.S. courts. See e.g., Fitzpatrick, Joan, Establishing Accountability for On-Going Human Rights Violations Through Litigation in United States Courts, 16 Whiter L. Rev. 439 (1995)Google Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, The Claim to Foreign Sovereign Immunity by Individuals Sued for International Human Rights Violations, 15 Whittier L. Rev. 465 (1994)Google Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, The Future of the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789: Lessons from In re Marcos Human Rights Litigation, 67 ST. John’s L. Rev. 491 (1993)Google Scholar.

4 Fitzpatrick’s early work on the application of international human rights and humanitarian law to civilians fleeing armed conflict paved the way for consideration of temporary refuge legislation in the United States. See, e.g., Fitzpatrick, Joan, Flight from Asylum: Trends Toward Temporary “Refuge” and Local Responses to Forced Migrations, 35 Va. J. Int’l L. 13 (1994)Google Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, The Principle and Practice of Temporary Refuge: A Customary Norm Protecting Civilians Fleeing Internal Armed Conflict, in The New Asylum Seekers: Refugee Law in the 1980’s, at 87 (Martin, David A. ed., 1988)Google Scholar; see also Fitzpatrick, Joan, Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime, 94 AJIL 279 (2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, The International Dimension of U.S. Refugee Law, 15 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 1 (1997)Google Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, Revitalizing the 1951 Refugee Convention, 9 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 229 (1996)Google Scholar.

5 See also Human Rights and Forced Displacement (Bayefsky, Anne F. & Fitzpatrick, Joan eds., 2000)Google Scholar.

6 Her last contributions to the literature were, indeed, precisely on this topic. See Fitzpatrick, Joan, Rendition and Transfer in the War Against Terrorism: Guantanamo and Beyond, 25 Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2003)Google Scholar; Fitzpatrick, Joan, Terrorism and Migration (2002), at <http://www.asil.org/taskforce/fitzpatr.pdf>Google Scholar.