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Humanitarian Intervention at the Margins: An Examination of Recent Incidents
Scholarship on humanitarian intervention is plentiful, but actual examples of state practice and opinio juris are sparse. Thus, critics...
Jul 3, 2017


The Right to Regulate in Investor–State Arbitration: Slicing and Dicing Regulatory Carve-Outs
This Article examines the “right to regulate” as the power of a sovereign state to adopt and maintain government measures for public...
Jul 3, 2017


Exit Legitimacy
Although it is widely appreciated that rights of exit from a legal order can be important and valuable, there currently exists no...
Jul 3, 2017


An International Model for Vicarious Liability in Franchising
Vicarious liability in the franchising context is a fundamental issue, both in the United States and foreign jurisdictions. With no...
Jul 3, 2017


Supernational Law
Should the United States continue to enter into free trade agreements containing sovereign commitments to resolve regulatory disputes...
Feb 8, 2017


Expanding the Boundaries of Boundary Dispute Settlement: International Law and Critical Geography at
This Article identifies a new trend in the adjudication of international boundary disputes and examines it from a historical and...
Feb 8, 2017


Confronting Mexico’s Enforced Disappearance Monsters: How the ICC Can Contribute to the Process of R
In 2015, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances released a report on Mexico, concluding that there is a generalized...
Feb 8, 2017


Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey
Though India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 domestic mobile device vendors, it has,...
Feb 8, 2017


Protecting Cultural Heritage as a Means for International Peace, Security and Stability: The Case of
Cultural aggression has become a strategy to obtain an advantage during war. In a deliberate and methodical pattern extremists have not...
Jan 18, 2017
Sharing and the City
The sharing of public infrastructure, the exchange of small services, and the traditional “cup of sugar borrowed from the neighbor” are...
Jan 18, 2017


Why China Established the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
On January 16, 2016, China officially opened the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for business, representing what might be a...
Jan 18, 2017


A Post-Millennial Inquiry into the United Nations Law of Self-Determination: A Right to Unilateral N
The present Article inquires whether a right to unilateral non-colonial (UNC) secession is grounded in the United Nations (UN) law of...
Jan 18, 2017
Making International Health Regulations Work: Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Many legal scholars believe that the lack of enforcement mechanisms provided by the International Health Regulations (IHR) in part...
Dec 13, 2016


Tax, Don’t Ban: A Comparative Look at Harmful but Legitimate Islamic Family Practices Actionable und
Massive migration of Muslims to the West in recent years has raised the question whether Shari’a—Islamic law—should apply to Muslim...
Dec 13, 2016


A New Model of Sovereignty in the Contemporary Era of Integrated Global Commerce: What Anthropology
Existing legal scholarship does not offer an effective or comprehensive definition of sovereignty. Sovereignty, however, matters. Indeed,...
Dec 13, 2016


Executive Agreements+
Did President Obama act constitutionally in joining the Paris Climate Change Agreement without seeking the approval of the Senate or...
Dec 13, 2016
Politics by Other Means: The Battle over the Classification of Asymmetrical Conflicts
Transnational armed conflicts between states and non-state armed groups have emerged as a defining characteristic of twenty-first century...
Aug 25, 2016
Response: The ICC, Pre-Existing Jurisdictional Treaty Regimes, and the Limits of the Nemo Dat Quod N
It is a pleasure and a privilege to provide a few reflections on Michael Newton’s thought-provoking essay on “How the ICC Threatens...
Aug 25, 2016
Response: “Quid,” Not “Quantum”: A Comment on “How the International Criminal Court Threatens Treaty
It is hard not to sympathize with the thrust of Michael A. Newton’s impressive article “How the International Criminal Court Threatens...
Aug 25, 2016
How the International Criminal Court Threatens Treaty Norms
This Article demonstrates the disadvantages of permitting a supranational institution like the International Criminal Court (ICC) to...
Aug 25, 2016
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