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Doing Peace the Rights Way: Essays in International Law and Relations in Honour of Louise Arbour. Edited by Fannie Lafontaine & François Larocque. Cambridge: Intersentia, 2019. 507 + xix pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2020

ALAIN-GUY SIPOWO*
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Catalyst Fellow 2019–20, Osgoode Hall Law School
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References

1 Lafontaine, Fannie & Larocque, François, eds, Doing Peace the Rights Way: Essays in International Law and Relations in Honour of Louise Arbour (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2019 CrossRefGoogle Scholar).

2 Fannie Lafontaine & François Larocque, “Introduction” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 1 at 2.

3 Andrew Clapham, “Human Rights Obligations for Non-State Actors: Where Are We Now?” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 11.

4 Ibid at 14–15, 18–22, 26, 30, 32.

5 Revised draft of a Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the Activities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises (16 July 2019), online: Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights <www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/WGTransCorp/OEIGWG_RevisedDraft_LBI.pdf>.

6 William Schabas, “The Right to Truth: When Does It Begin?” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 37.

7 See e.g. Janowiec and Others v Russia (GC), No 55508/07, [2013] V ECHR 203, online: European Court of Human Rights <http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-127684>. See also Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v Serbia), [2015] ICJ Rep 3.

8 Schabas, supra note 6 at 51.

9 Ibid.

10 Alana Klein, “Social and Economic Rights and the Legal Imagination” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 65.

11 Ibid at 67.

12 Ibid at 70–72.

13 Ibid at 75, 84.

14 Cited in ibid at 84.

15 Hina Jilani, “Building a Culture of Inclusivity in a Diverse Society” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 85.

16 Ibid at 86, 88.

17 Tity Agbahey & Gilles Olakoulé Yabi, “Corruption, Inequality and Boko Haram in Nigeria” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 53.

18 Jilani, supra note 15 at 88–89.

19 Ibid at 90–91.

20 Ibid at 91–102.

21 J Michael Spratt, “Made in Canada: A Failed War on Drugs” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 103.

22 Pablo Espiniella, “Unaccompanied Children Out of Their Country of Origin: Trapped in the Administrative Net” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 121.

23 Spratt, supra note 21 at 105.

24 Ibid at 110.

25 Espiniella, supra note 22 at 127, 131.

26 Ibid at 136.

27 Ibid at 137.

28 James K Stewart, “The Deterrence Rationale in a Criminal Justice Accountability Regime” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 147.

29 Ibid at 152.

30 Ibid.

31 Ibid at 163.

32 Ibid at 151.

33 Mona Rishmawi, “Peace and Justice: Human Rights Fact-Finding in Raging Conflicts” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 171 at 179–80.

34 Luc Côté, “The Independence of International Prosecutors” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 253. For the textual guarantees of independence, see Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998, 2187 UNTS 3, arts 15(1), 42(1) (entered into force 1 July 2002) [Rome Statute].

35 See e.g. Rome Statute, supra note 34, art 53.

36 Côté, supra note 34 at 275.

37 Lisa N Oldring, “‘Exceptional Measures’ in Times of Crisis: Terrorism, National Security and the Rule of Law” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 199.

38 Ibid at 213.

39 Ibid at 214.

40 Fannie Lafontaine, “When the End Lacks the Means: National Prosecution of International Crimes and Canada’s Paper Tiger Approach” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 221.

41 Ibid at 238–39.

42 Ibid at 247–51.

43 Ibid at 250.

44 François Larocque, “Torture, Jurisdiction and Immunity: Theories and Practice in Search of One Another” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 277.

45 Ibid at 279.

46 Ibid at 289, citing , Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, 6th ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)Google Scholar at 298 and Jessup, Philip, Transnational Law (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1956) at 64 Google Scholar.

47 See European Convention on State Immunity, 16 May 1972, ETS No 074 (entered into force 11 June 1976); United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, 2 December 2004, UN Doc A/RES/59/38 (2004) (not in force).

48 Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v Italy; Greece Intervening), [2012] ICJ Rep 99 at para 60.

49 Larocque, supra note 44 at 311–12.

50 Tim McCormack, “Revisiting Challenges to International Humanitarian Law” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 317 at 329–33.

51 Ibid at 333–39.

52 Ibid at 338.

53 Ibid at 346.

54 Ibid at 350.

55 Fabrizio Hochschild, “Leadership in the United Nations and the Challenge of Courage” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 355 at 355.

56 Ibid at 370.

57 Ibid at 374.

58 Philip Alston, “The World Bank as a Human Rights-Free Zone” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 375.

59 Ibid at 379, 387.

60 Ibid at 385–90.

61 Antonia Potter Prentice & Camille Marquis Bissonnette, “Come a Long Way and a Long Way to Go: UNSCR 1325 and Women’s Participation in Peace-Making” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 401 at 412.

62 See Charter of the United Nations, 26 June 1945, Can TS 1945 No 7, arts 1(1), 8 (entered into force 24 October 1945).

63 See Alain-Guy Tachou-Sipowo, “The Security Council on Women in War: Between Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Protection” (2010) 92:877 Intl Rev Red Cross 197 at 213.

64 Potter Prentice & Marquis Bissonnette, supra note 61 at 412–14.

65 Ibid at 416.

66 Kim Pate, “Why Are Women Canada’s Fastest-Growing Prison Population and Why Should We Care?” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 423.

67 Natasha Bakht, “Moving Beyond Facial Equality: Examining Canadian and French Niqab Bans” in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 443.

68 Canada, Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Report (Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1996) (Louise Arbour, Commissioner).

69 Pate, supra note 66 at 427, 430–33.

70 Bakht, supra note 67 at 461.

71 “An Interview with the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Arbour” (2014) 46:2 Ottawa L Rev 383, republished in Lafontaine & Larocque, supra note 1, 471, especially at 501.

72 Ibid at 487–88.

73 Ibid at 495.