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IAJ-GDE-20260710-002-PUB
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Guide · 2026-07-10
Collaborative Prosecution Framework: Joint State–Federal Enforcement of the Prohibition of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment in the United States
This Framework sets out a practical model for joint state and federal enforcement of the prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment (CIDT) in the United States. It starts from the observation that neither sovereign, …
IAJ-GDE-20260710-008-PUB
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Guide · 2026-07-10
The Equivalence Representation and the Ex Post Facto Lockout: Why United States compliance with the Convention against Torture is not a political question awaiting congressional action; why the new offence a congressional cure supplies can never criminally punish the conduct of the past; and how the lockout is prevented
This Guide addresses a proposition heard repeatedly in United States discussions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) — that full compliance with the Convention is a politi…
IAJ-NOT-20260710-004-PUB
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Notice · 2026-07-10
On the Duty of the Prosecutors in the United States under the Convention against Torture
This document is a combined memorandum and record of notice, issued by the Institute for the Advancement of Justice & Human Rights on behalf of the People of the United States and addressed to every officer in the United States who exercis…
IAJ-NOT-20260710-007-PUB
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Notice · 2026-07-10
On the Duty of the Legislatures of the United States to Complete the Nation’s Compliance with the Convention against Torture
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) has been binding on the United States as a matter of treaty law for more than three decades, yet the domestic legislative work the treaty …
IAJ-STD-20260710-003-PUB
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Standard · 2026-07-10
Prosecutorial Misconduct and UNCAT Accountability: An IAJ Analytical Standard on Ethical Failure, Evidence Integrity, Execution-Architecture Abandonment, and State-Party Compliance
This Analytical Standard sets out the IAJ’s framework for evaluating prosecutorial misconduct as a compliance question under the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT). It reframes the traditional treatment of prosecutorial misc…
IAJ-GDE-20260709-004-PUB
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Guide · 2026-07-09
Guide to Domestic Criminal Enforcement of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment in the United States
This Guide is the IAJ’s practical reference on how the United States, as a state party to the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT), actually enforces the prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment (CIDT)…
IAJ-LRV-20260702-001-PUB
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Review of Law · 2026-07-02
How to Personally Enforce the Torture Convention: A Practical Guide, in Impossible Steps, to Vindicating a Non-Derogable Personal Right Under United States Law
This Guide traces, step by step, what a person harmed by torture or by cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDT) at the hands of a public official or of a private actor acting with the consent or acquiescence of a public …
IAJ-LRV-20260626-001-PUB
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Review of Law · 2026-06-26
The Inviolable Root: Human Dignity as the Interpretive Foundation of the Prohibition on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment — A Comparative Survey of the World’s Constitutions and the United States Exception
This Review surveys the constitutions of the world and identifies a near-universal interpretive architecture in which the prohibition of torture and of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDT) is anchored in the constitu…
IAJ-STD-20260626-002-PUB
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Standard · 2026-06-26
The Inviolable Root: Human Dignity as the Interpretive Foundation of the Prohibition on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment — A Comparative Survey of the World’s Constitutions and the United States Exception
This Review surveys the constitutions of the world and identifies a near-universal interpretive architecture in which the prohibition of torture and of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDT) is anchored in the constitu…
IAJ-INV-20260616-002-PUB
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Investigation Findings · 2026-06-16
The Structural Foreclosure of Effective Protection and Remedy for Rights-Violating Judicial Conduct in the Courts of the United States of America
An Investigative Finding on Judicial Immunity, Good-Behaviour Accountability, and the Limits of Judicial Self-Regulation Across State and Federal Court Systems, Assessed Against International Human-Rights Standards — “The Robed Sovereign a…
IAJ-STD-20260611-001-PUB
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Standard · 2026-06-11
Protections for Human Rights Defenders: Origins, State Obligations, and Enforcement -- with a Focus on the United States
Protections for human rights defenders are real but contingent, and they rest on a layered architecture rather than any single law. There is no dedicated binding treaty for defenders; instead the 1998 UN Declaration on Human Rights Defende…
IAJ-AOP-20260517-001-PUB
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Advisory Opinion · 2026-05-17
Quia Timet and the Prevention of Threatened Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment by Domestic Authorities
This Advisory Opinion analyzes the application of the equitable doctrine of quia timet — “because he fears,” the long-standing principle that a court may grant relief to prevent threatened harm before it occurs — to claims of imminent tort…
IAJ-GCM-20260512-002-PUB
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IAJ General Comment · 2026-05-12
General Comment on IAJ Advisory Opinions
This General Comment sets out the institutional posture and limits of advisory opinions issued by the Institute for the Advancement of Justice & Human Rights, a California non-profit corporation structured by reference to the Paris Princip…
IAJ-LRV-20260511-002-PUB
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Review of Law · 2026-05-11
International Precedents and Comparative Law on Judicial Torture and CIDT
Today, ‘judicial torture’ properly covers (i) judicially ordered corporal punishment; (ii) court-process-linked torture/CIDT ; (iii) state acquiescence in private violence connected to proceedings. Judicial acquiescence to torture is tanta…
IAJ-LRV-20260511-003-PUB
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Review of Law · 2026-05-11
Enhanced Constitutional Framework for Judicial Torture
This constitutional framework establishes the legal foundation for judicial torture claims by integrating five critical doctrines of constitutional and international law: Article VI supremacy, jus cogens peremptory norms, Charming Betsy tr…
IAJ-STD-20260511-001-PUB
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Standard · 2026-05-11
International Precedents and Comparative Law on Judicial Torture and CIDT
Today, ‘judicial torture’ properly covers (i) judicially ordered corporal punishment; (ii) court-process-linked torture/CIDT ; (iii) state acquiescence in private violence connected to proceedings. Judicial acquiescence to torture is tanta…
IAJ-AOP-20260209-001-PUB
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Advisory Opinion · 2026-02-09
ON THE BOUNDED APPLICABILITY OF LEHMAN v. LYCOMING COUNTY CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY, 458 U.S. 502 (1982) IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT UNCAT RATIFICATION AND TREATY SUPREMACY PRINCIPLES
This Advisory Opinion analyzes Lehman v. Lycoming County Children’s Services Agency, 458 U.S. 502 (1982), which held that federal habeas corpus jurisdiction does not extend to state child custody determinations. The Institute for the Advan…
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