By: Joshua Hiero PDF: Guns for Hire Modern Private Military Companies (PMCs) possess the tools and capabilities of full-fledged militaries, while using the corporate form to obtain financing, avoid legal accountability, and shield their true identities. These PMCs have increasingly been operating in weak states where they act with impunity knowing that they are beyond the reach of the law. This Note will demonstrate the difficulties of keeping PMCs accountable in active conf

By: Jake Goodman-Palmer PDF: Manufacturing Accountability This Article examines four avenues for holding multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for workplace injuries that occur in their value chains and proposes a fifth solution. The four pathways are: human rights tribunals, the self- regulation of firm activity through the promulgation of private standards, tort or delict liability in domestic courts, and a novel proposal to establish an International Court of Civi

By: Andrew Wickes PDF: Can A UN Protectorate Provide Resolution? Haiti remains an unstable nation despite multiple transnational interventions in the last thirty years. After overthrowing the French in 1804, Haiti has vacillated between periods of independence and subservience to foreign nations. Political instability and harsh poverty implored the UN to begin a series of peacekeeping missions to help stabilize the nation around the turn of the twenty-first century. Politica

By: Erick Guapizaca Jiménez PDF: Pre-Legislative Indigenous Consultation This Article seeks to distinguish pre-legislative and pre-regulatory consultation (together referred to as pre-legislative consultation) from project-based consultation. Pre-legislative consultation covers draft legislation, executive orders, and regulations that create general norms and is triggered when a measure directly affects Indigenous Peoples. This Article makes two claims. First, pre-legislativ