Volume 5 Contents

Articles
1. Globalizing Decency: Responsible Engagement in an Era of Economic Integration by Craig Forcese
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2. When Intent Makes All the Difference in the World: Economic Sanctions on Iraq and the Accusation of Genocide by Joy Gordon
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3. Microcredit: Fulfilling or Belying the Universalist Morality of Globalizing Markets? by Kenneth Anderson
   
   This Article gives an account of the practice of microcredit that reveals its ambivalent relationship to global markets. Microcredit consists in non-profit lending to poor communities, often at subsidized interest rates, to encourage small-scale entrepreneurial activity. Microcredit organizations view themselves, alternatively, as an extension of global markets into poor communities, designed to draw them permanently into the global economy, or as an efficient mechanism for providing aid to compensate the poor for their exclusion from the market. The Article argues that organizations would do well to clarify their relationship to the global market, because that relationship has implications for how they should structure their lending program, whether they can become self-sustainable, and how they should measure their success. It further argues that, at a more general level, some residual ambivalence is unavoidable because the limits of globalization are unclear and microcredit necessarily is both an extension of, and a remedy for, the logic of the global market.
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4. Pursuing the Path of Indigenization in the Era of Emergent International Law Governing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Robert B. Porter
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5. Reclaiming Humanity: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as the Cornerstone of African Human Rights by Shedrack C. Agbakwa
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   Notes from the Field
6. Dealing with Witnesses in War Crime Trials: Lessons from the Yugoslav Tribunal by Patricia M. Wald
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7. Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.: A New Standard for the Enforcement of International Law in U.S. Courts? by Aaron Xavier Fellmeth
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8. From Laggard to Leader: Canadian Lessons on a Role for U.S. States in Making and Implementing Human Rights Treaties by Koren L. Bell
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