Professor Barbara J. Stark presented a paper, "At Last? Ratification of the Economic Covenant as a Self-Executing Treaty," at a Symposium on the Obama Administration and Human Rights at the University of Iowa College of Law on March 5th.

Professor Barbara J. Stark was a contributor and Senior Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights, which has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Dartmouth Medal. Professor Stark contributed two articles on Women's Rights and The Economic Covenant.

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Professor Barbara J. Stark's article, Jam Tomorrow: Distributive Justice and the Limits of International Economic Law, has recently been published as the lead article in the 30th Anniversary Issue of the Boston College Third World Journal. Professor Stark's thesis in the Article is that even if the relatively modest objective of the Millennium Development Goals-- i.e., to halve the number of people subsisting on less than $1 a day by 2015-- is considered "distributive justice," it is not going to happen under the aegis of international economic law.

On November 23, 2009, Professor Barbara Stark's guest post, "For world's women, recession goes on" was featured on IntLawGrrls.

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The chasm between the rich and the poor has become unfathomable. As a recent U.N. study explains, global wealth is distributed "as if one person in a group of ten takes 99% of the total pie and the others share the remaining 1%." Few argue that this is inevitable or unimportant, but there is little consensus on how to proceed. What should be done? Who should do it? These questions should not be left entirely to politicians, economists, and celebrities.

Professor Barbara Stark joined Blair & Weiner on the second edition of their casebook, "Family Law in the World Community." The book has been updated and trimmed, although it retains a wide range of topics and materials. It covers a variety of private international law issues, including child abduction, child custody, adoption, child support enforcement, and recognition of marriages and divorces. The book also explores the impact of public international law on both domestic and international regulation of the family, using topics such as family violence and the rights of the child. The book uses comparative law materials to examine traditional family law topics, such as the regulation of marriage, the rights of same-sex couples, adoption, reproductive freedom, and more.