Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Associate Professor of Clinical Law, Director, Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, Faculty Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights

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Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-24
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Jun 2011
Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Seattle University Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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acid, acid violence, human rights, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, inequality, discrimination, women

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Missing in Action: The International Crime of the Slave Trade

18 Journal of International Criminal Justice (forthcoming 2020), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 607
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Apr 2020
Patricia Viseur Sellers and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
University of Oxford - Kellogg College and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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International Law, International Criminal Law, Slave Trade, Enslavement, Slavery

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Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR

Human Rights Quarterly, 32 (2010) 253-310, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-031
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Stephen Arrigg Koh
Seattle University Law School, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Law Clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. J.D., Cornell Law School; M.Phil. University of Cambridge, England; A.B., Harvard University
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right to education, human rights, indicators and economic, social and cultural rights

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The International Crimes of Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Feminist Critique

Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 622, Gender and International Criminal Law, Edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld and Susana SáCouto Oxford University Press, 2022
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 04 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022
Patricia Viseur Sellers and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
University of Oxford - Kellogg College and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Sexual Slavery and Customary International Law

Patricia Viseur Sellers & Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, "Sexual Slavery and Customary International Law" in PROSECUTING THE PRESIDENT: THE TRIAL OF HISSÈNE HABRÉ (Sharon Weill et al. eds., 2020 Forthcoming) , Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 597
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Jan 2020
Patricia Viseur Sellers and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
University of Oxford - Kellogg College and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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international criminal law, customary international law, gender-based crimes, conflict-related sexual violence, Hissène Habré, Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), sexual slavery, slavery, enslavement

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Examining the Practice of Developing Human Rights Indicators to Facilitate Accountability for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation

6 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE 159-181 (2014).
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2018
Benjamin Mason Meier, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Georgia Kayser, Urooj Amjad and Jamie Bartram
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, The Water Institute and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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accountability; water and sanitation; indicators; human rights treaty bodies; post-2015 agenda; United Nations

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Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth Commission's Report

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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International Human Rights, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Transitional Justice

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From Protection to Punishment: Post-Conviction Barriers to Justice for Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants in New York State

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-21
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jun 2011
Tamar Kraft-Stolar, Elizabeth Brundige, Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Law School, Seattle University Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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domestic violence, survivors, reforms, abuse, criminal justice system

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Disaggregating Slavery and the Slave Trade

16 FL. INT’L U. L. REV. 515 (2022), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 639
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Translating the Human Right to Water and Sanitation into Public Policy Reform

20 Science and Engineering Ethics 833-848 (2014).
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2018
Benjamin Mason Meier, Georgia Kayser, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Urooj Amjad, Fernanda Dalcanale and Jamie Bartram
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, The Water Institute, Independent and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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Human Rights, Water and Sanitation, International Law, Public Policy, Water Governance, Public Health

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Rights Based Approaches to Public Health Systems

RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH, p. 19, Elvira Beracochea, Corey Weinstein & Dabney Evans, eds, November 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Dec 2011
Benjamin Mason Meier, Lance Gable, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Leslie London
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wayne State University Law School, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Cape Town (UCT)
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right to health, determinants of health, global health policy, national health policy, human rights

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Bioprospecting and Indigenous Cultural Rights: Creating Authorship, Agency, Empowerment and the Next Generation of Biopirates?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Dec 2010
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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bioprospecting, indigenous rights, collective rights, cultural rights, agency, biopiracy

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Closing Impunity Gaps for the Crime of Aggression

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Aug 2016
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Prohibiting Slavery & the Slave Trade

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 63, 2022, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 664
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Mar 2022
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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slavery, slave trade, international human rights law, human rights, slavery violations, human rights harms

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Populist Nationalism Threatens Health and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Response

American Journal of Public Health
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Caitlin R. Williams, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Benjamin Mason Meier
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Populism, Human Rights, Health, World Health Organization

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Ratification of Human Rights Treaties: The Beginning, Not the End

Lancet, Vol. 374, p. 447, 2009
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 27 Dec 2011
Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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human rights, right to health, indicators

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The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health: Establishing International Processes for State Reporting to an Independent Monitoring Body

Health & Human Rights, April 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Dec 2011
Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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accountability, women's health, children's health, monitoring body

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The Myth of Slavery Abolition

75 UC Law SF Law Journal (formerly Hastings Law Journal), forthcoming, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 709
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 May 2023
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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slavery, slave trade, international human rights law, human rights, slavery violations, human rights harms

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Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy and Practice in Settler Colonial Contexts

Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 733, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 31, No. 441, 2023
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Oct 2023
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Caroline Bishop LaPorte
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Miami
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All Roads Lead to Rome: Combating Impunity for Perpetration of Slave Trade and Slavery Crimes

Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Volume 4, 2023/2, December 2023, Forthcoming, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 734
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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