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Exporting U.S. Criminal Justice

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Abstract
In the years leading up to and following the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government embarked on a new legal transplant project, carried out through the foreign promotion of U.S. criminal justice techniques, procedures, and transnational crime priorities. Over the course of the 1990s, U.S. foreign criminal justice development initiatives rapidly expanded. This Article seeks to answer two questions, which to date remain largely unaddressed in the relevant scholarly literatures: Why, in the Cold War's wake, when the U.S. criminal justice system had come to be viewed in significant respects in terms of failure, did U.S. criminal law development programs take shape and proliferate? What have been the associated outcomes?
In discussing the paper it would be most useful to discuss the Introduction, Parts I, II.A-C4a, (skipping II.C.4.b&c), Part III.B (skipping part III.A), and the Conclusion section.  Included is  a table of contents and hope that helps this make sense: basically, if time doesn't permit a skim through the whole article, read 1-35, 42-44, and 55-74 (skipping 36-41 and 45-54).
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Legalizing Human Rights in Africa : Workshop #4

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This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), met once during Fall quarter and will meet three times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year.

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Helen Stacy Senior Fellow, CDDRL, Senior Lecturer, Stanford School of Law Moderator
Steven Robins Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch Speaker
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Legalizing Human Rights in Africa: Workshop #3

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This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), met once during Fall quarter and will meet three times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year.

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Legalizing Human Rights in Africa : Workshop #2

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This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), will meet once this quarter and between three and four times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year.

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Helen Stacy Senior Fellow, CDDRL, Senior Lecturer, Stanford School of Law Moderator
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Immigrant Identity in a Cosmopolitan World

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Dr. von Vacano’s teaching and research interests are in political philosophy and the history of political thought. He is especially interested in modern European and Latin American political theory. His current research for a monograph focuses on the problem of racial identity in relation to citizenship in the Hispanic tradition, focusing on the themes of Empire, Nation, and Cosmopolis in various thinkers. The ancillary aim of The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American Political Thought (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) is to develop a normative conceptualization of race for modern multicultural societies.

Professor von Vacano is also beginning research on a book project that defends globalization through an examination of the development of immigrant identity. This uses the dialectical tradition in German political philosophy and empirical evidence from immigrants in global cities such as New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires.

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Diego von Vacano Visiting Professor,Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker Stanford University
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Visit to Palo Alto Utilities

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Palo Alto Utilities
Utility Control Center Building

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Visit to Nektar Therapeutics

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Nektar Therapeutics Corporate Headquarters
201 Industrial Road
San Carlos, CA 94070

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Tour of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

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The Consequences Matter - But to What?

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I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the attached paper at the session on Friday. The paper is part of a larger project on how we should regulate conduct that is socially productive, but poses some risk of harm to others. The official technique for risk regulation in the modern administrative state is some form of cost/benefit analysis: we tote up the expected social benefits and expected social costs of alternative courses of conduct, and opt for that course that is expected to generate the largest aggregate benefits (net of costs). There is a vast and growing critical literature on the normative, conceptual, and administrative problems with cost/benefit analysis. I agree with many of those criticisms. But my particular interest in this project is the objection raised to any aggregative procedure, on the familiar deontological ground that it fails to respect the distinct rights and interests of individuals. Accepting the moral impulse behind that objection as understandable, maybe even compelling, the question I want to address is whether nonconsequentialists have offered—or could offer‐‐ any coherent alternative to aggregation in this context.

The short answer is, I don’t think so. I want to underscore that this is not a broadside attack on nonconsequentialist principles or a categorical defense of consequentialism. It is a domain‐specific concern. For reasons I touch on briefly in this chapter, I think that deontological principles by their nature are the wrong tools to solve the fundamental problems raised by accidental (unintended) harms, and that this reality has been obscured by the limited and somewhat peculiar focus of the immense philosophical literature on harm to others.

While these larger concerns are in the background, this chapter mostly focuses on the central deontological objection to aggregative solutions to regulating potentially harmful conduct: that it violates our duty not to act in a fashion that will result in harm to others.

Please do not cite to without permission of the author.

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Barbara Fried William E.and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor in Law Speaker Stanford University
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Legalizing Human Rights in Africa - Fall Quarter

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This 2009-10 interdisciplinary research workshop examines the trajectory of human rights discourse and institutions in Africa by means of regional and international comparisons. Africa is the third, and most recent, region to establish a regional human rights court, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACPHR). At this critical juncture in African human rights, there is an urgent need for deeper understandings and applications of the law of human rights.

This workshop will be of interest and benefit to faculty and graduate students conducting research in the following areas: African studies; human rights; law; anthropology; cultural studies; history; political science and international relations; philosophy; and sociology.

The workshop, coordinated by Helen Stacy (Law School, FSI), will meet once this quarter and between three and four times during the Winter and Spring quarters of the 2009-2010 academic year.

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