Madhavi Sunder

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Piercing the Veil

112 Yale L.J. 1399 (2003) Human rights law has a problem with religion. In a postmodern world in which the nation-state has been deconstructed and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century notions of unmediated national sovereignty have been properly put to rest, religion--and its attendant category, culture--represent the New Sovereignty. September 11th crystallized this fact. The infamous Taliban regime in Afghanistan assumed power...