Turkey

• More on John Fonte’s new book Sovereignty or Submission [FrontPage interview, W. James Antle III/Washington Times, Clifford May via Israpundit, earlier here and here] U.N. Human Rights Council finds much to criticize about U.S. rights record, including inadequate attention to rights of clean water and sanitation; State Department response to “universal periodic review”;
• “The President Can’t Increase Congress’s Power Simply by Signing a Treaty” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato, on Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Bond]
• Another “international norms vs. American sentencing practices” showdown headed to SCOTUS? [Hans Bader]
• France, Turkey restrict talk of Armenian genocide in opposite ways, and both are wrong [Walter Russell Mead]
• Transnational prosecutions on an inexorable upward arc? Depends on how you count them [Jeremy Rabkin, TAI]
• International law pressed into use to remake family law and gender customs [Stephen Baskerville]
• “Time to Fix the European Court of Human Rights?” [Julian Ku, Opinio Juris]
• “We are fighting the caste system with capitalism”: open market in India helps Dalits [NY Times]

Tagged as: Europe, family law, France, India, international human rights, international law, Supreme Court, Turkey

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