GEORGE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW

This article explores distinct yet interrelated justifications offered by national court judges in the United States and Commonwealth jurisdictions in support of their references to international human rights law. In addition, the author discusses the concept of transjudicialism and its potential to transform the women’s human rights movement. Transjudicialism refers to the emerging trend in national and supranational courts to conceive of themselves as members of a larger judicial community, one that transcends national boundaries.

This article assesses the impact of the UN Trafficking Protocol. It starts with an overview of international trafficking in persons and highlights major provisions in the Trafficking Protocol. Recommendations and strategies to address trafficking are also outlined by the author. The author stresses that more action is needed against trafficking: "states must build [the Trafficking Protocol's] legacy upon more than an increase in public awareness about trafficking in human beings or an increase in the number of laws to punish traffickers'.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the Women's Convention) has been ratified with reservations by more states than almost any other human rights treaty. This article discusses the reservations regime under international law and explains how such approaches have been used in contemporary multilateral treaties, such as the Women's Convention (Part II).

This article is part of a series reviewing the first ten years of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the Women's Convention). It focuses on some of the difficulties the Convention and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) have faced and the steps taken to overcome these problems in order to become a respected and effective tool in the pursuit of women's rights.