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This dissertation is at the intersection of sociology of law, international law, and human rights, exploring the factors leading to the adoption of policy measures in transitional justice settings. Relying on interview data and analysis of legal archives, this dissertation recon…

In this research, I examine the history of child rights using critical discourse analysis as a research methodology and theoretical approach to read, understand, analyze, critique, and contextualize three international child rights texts - the Declaration of Geneva (1924), the D…

This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…

Your Tenderness for Truth examines a spectrum of wounding personal violations in their entwinement with loving companionship and larger histories of colonial and imperial trespasses. With attention to what I term “intimate violations”—gendered transgressions against a person’s s…

This dissertation explores the interaction of debt covenants and firms’ investment behaviors, especially the association between debt covenants and project-level operations. Although previous research has examined the association between contractual terms or gross measures of in…