Justice Without Power: Yemen and The Global Legal System

Authors

Amulya Vadapalli, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

The war in Yemen has remained the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since 2015, and yet it is shockingly invisible. The global legal system fails to offer a clear avenue through which the Yemeni people can hold the state actors responsible for their harm accountable. This Note analyzes international legal mechanisms for vindicating war crimes and human rights abuses perpetrated in Yemen. Through the lens of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, it highlights gaps in the global legal structure, proposes alternative accountability processes, and uses a variety of sources—including interviews with practitioners and Arabic language legal scholarship—to explicate a victim-centered transitional justice process for the Yemeni people.

Recommended Citation

Amulya Vadapalli, Justice Without Power: Yemen and The Global Legal System, 121 Mich. L. Rev. 811 (2023).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol121/iss5/4