Globalization of Human Rights Law

Speech given at Session 4: The Legal Profession and Human Rights. Jerome Shestack explains what is intended by “globalization” of human rights. The term embraces more than the standards themselves and includes the process by which human rights implementation takes place on a global level, the range of those who advocate international human rights, the potential for a meaningful international human rights judicial system, and the role of human rights in the calculus of international relations. He article touches on all of these areas

The Public Employee and His Government: Conditions and Disabilities of Public Employment

Even before Mr. Marbury, the public employee and his government have frequently found themselves on opposite sides of the counsel table. Not that public employees are a particularly litigious lot. Faced, however, with the willingness of administrators to deal with them politically and the unwillingness of legislators to protect them adequately, their resort to the courts was inevitable. But the courts also often provided inadequate protection. Decisions which combined ancient concepts with more than a touch of political realism accorded scant recognition to the substantial interests of the ever-growing number of public employees. In recent years, the traditional cliches in at least two areas of the law of officers and employees appear to have undergone if not an agonizing, at least a searching, reappraisal. These areas, the subject of this paper, are: first, the constitutionality of conditions of public employment, such as restrictions against political activity, invoking the privilege against self-incrimination and joining certain organizations; and, second, union activity by public employees

Questioning to increase perspective taking abilities in a child with Asperger\u27s disorder

This study evaluated the effectiveness of using point-of-view video modeling and relational response questioning to teach perspective taking skills to a second grade student with Asperger\u27s disorder. The student showed significant deficits in the ability to share with his classmates and with a younger sibling. Three baseline collection periods were held in which the participant was asked to share a food item and a toy with his five year old sibling to analyze sharing deficits. Sharing is an integral function of perspective taking skills. The intervention was a personalized point-of-view video using the subjects five year old sister as a model. This video was used as an intervention daily for a five day period. Data and rate of occurrence of the target behavior of sharing was collected. Point-of-view video modeling used with a relational response question proved to be an effective technique in increasing the perspective taking skills of a seven year old student diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder