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People's Tribunals: Holding Power to Account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2023

Azadeh Shahshahani
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Realizing Solidarity Through International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 116 , 2022 , pp. 202 - 209
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

1

Legal & Advocacy Director with Project South and a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. Shahshahani has been involved in multiple people's tribunals domestically and internationally as a member of the jury. The author would like to thank Anne Madeline Boring, Jon Michael Babineau Jr., and Jillian Nelson for their contributions to the research. This piece was originally published by the National Lawyers Guild.

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3 Richard Falk, People's Tribunals and the Roots of Civil Society Justice, OpenDemocracy (May 2015).

4 Angela Oliver, Power to the People: People's Tribunal a Platform for Arguments Surrounding Muslim Ban, Project South (Oct. 2017).

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7 Azadeh Shahshahani, An International Tribunal Declares the Impeachment of Brazil's Dilma Rousseff an Illegitimate Coup, Nation (Aug. 2016).

8 Mullin, Trigui & Shahshahani, supra note 5.

9 Shahshahani, supra note 7.

10 Id.

11 Id.

12 Id.

13 Id.

14 Azadeh Shahshahani, People's Tribunals Deliver Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations, Nat'l Lawyers Guild (July 2015).

15 Indicting the BS Acquino Regime and the U.S. Government as Represented by Pres. Barack Obama for Human Rights Violations, Plunder and Transgression of the Filipino People's Sovereignty, International People's Tribunal (July 2015).

16 Shahshahani, supra note 14.

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19 Id.

20 Shahshahani, supra note 14.

21 International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International People's Tribunal on the Philippines Issues Verdict on Duterte and Trump (Sept. 2018).

22 Peter Murphy, The International People's Tribunal Has Found President Duterte Guilty – Now the International Community Must Do the Same, Equal Times (Oct. 4, 2018).

23 Id.

24 International Association of Democratic Lawyers, supra note 21.

25 Id.

26 Azadeh Shahshahani & Rev. Sadie Stone, Stop US Military Aid to the Philippines, Jacobin Mag. (Oct. 2019).

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29 Camilo Perez Bustillo & Azadeh Shahshahani, Tribunal Finds Mexico and US Jointly Responsible for Human Rights Crisis Linked to Drug War, World Post (Sept. 2015).

30 Id.

31 International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, supra note 28.

32 Monica Moorehead, International Tribunal on Katrina & Rita: We Charge Genocide, Workers World (Sept. 2007).

33 Id.

34 PHRFOC, International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, YouTube (Apr. 2011).

35 Id.

36 Id.

37 Civil Rights Groups to Host People's Tribunal, The People v. Muslim Ban, GSU College of Law, Oct. 9, Project South (Oct. 2017).

38 Angela Oliver, Power to the People: People's Tribunal a Platform for Arguments Surrounding Muslim Ban, Project South (Oct. 2017).

39 Id.