By: Connor Stevens PDF: Uncharted Waters As global temperatures continue to rise, states are not on track to achieve net-zero carbon emission goals, as embodied in the Paris Agreement. Countries are beginning to research ocean carbon dioxide removal, such as macroalgae cultivation, iron fertilization and other geoengineering techniques, to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Implementation in the high seas would help drive removal efforts to the scale nations n

By: Tarissa L. Peterson PDF: Voyage of Injustice Behind the glamour of the cruise ship industry lies a dark reality of systemic exploitation that requires public awareness and urgent action to facilitate reform. This Article unveils the dark side of the cruise ship industry and whether the existing international legal architecture enables exploitation in the cruise ship industry, and the pathways forward for reform. This Article delves into the cruise ship industry’s employ

By: Mia Mahmudur Rahim PDF: Monopolizing The Harvest This Article critically examines the growing dominance of multinational corporations in the global seed and agrochemical sectors and their far-reaching implications for food security, agricultural biodiversity, and environmental sustainability. Through a detailed analysis of market consolidation, intellectual property regimes, and technological dependencies, this Article reveals how a handful of corporations have come to c

By: Ines Willemyns PDF: The Future of Crypto Crypto assets (sometimes referred to as cryptocurrencies) were created shortly after the 2008 financial crisis to provide an alternative financial system that was completely decentralized, trustless, and did not require any regulatory oversight. Since their inception, crypto assets have been plagued by violent value fluctuations and instances of severe negligence and fraud, causing billions of dollars in losses for investors every

By: Caitlin Sharma PDF: A Dose of Accountability The international fentanyl crisis underscores significant gaps in treaty enforcement, particularly with state accountability for drug manufacturing and export practices leading to illicit fentanyl trafficking. Despite preventive measures established by United Nations drug conventions, legal loopholes in these provisions impede meaningful cooperation between state parties. This Note uses key countries, including the United Stat

By: Brook Whitley PDF: A Beacon of Service Recent high profile human trafficking cases—particularly trafficking for sexual exploitation—have highlighted shortcomings in international human rights law. Human trafficking has unique features that necessitate aggressive and innovative approaches to justice for trafficking victims. Trafficking is often a transnational crime, involving transporting victims across borders. The networks traffickers create are pervasive and insidious

By: Ryan McNicholas PDF: Finding a New Enforcer The modern world economy has made it easier than ever for large multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes. As corporate tax rates are largely the domain of individual nations, sophisticated companies are incentivized to take advantage of differences in national taxation to minimize their own tax burden. This avoidance creates significant negative effects for impacted countries, which lose out on a significant source of g

By: Tao Huang PDF: Institutional Metaphors The Meta Oversight Board represents a significant institutional innovation in the governance of social media. It offers valuable insights and lessons for regulating content moderation practices on online platforms. Scholars and commentators have employed a variety of metaphors to describe the board: court, human rights tribunal, administrative law judge, arbitration panel, and internal self-regulation mechanism. These metaphors serv

By: Doruk Erhan PDF: The Hyper-Unitary Executive This Article foregrounds the civil bureaucracy as a central yet overlooked site of democratic backsliding. While authoritarian shifts are conventionally associated with the weakening of interbranch checks and balances, this Article focuses on a single branch—the executive—and identifies its internal remaking as a key explanatory variable. It examines the gradual erosion of a sub-constitutional separation of powers, which in or

By: Theophilus Edwin Coleman PDF: The Silent Price of Artificial Intelligence Despite the economic potential of artificial intelligence (AI), significant drawbacks exist, particularly the exploitation of digital labor in developing countries by large AI corporations. A crucial issue in AI development is the reliance on data annotators and digital workers from the Global South to train AI systems or models. These workers perform essential tasks such as labeling, sorting, and

By: Scott M. Brown and Daniel J. Hall PDF: Language, Law, and Wealth This Article examines how Puerto Rico's monolingual Spanish legal regime, rooted in colonial-era civil law and reinforced by nationalist language policies, creates structural barriers that weaken economic integration with the United States. The island's symbolic legal autonomy has produced five entrenched institutional monopolies—in inheritance law, notarial services, property titling, language of legal ins

By: Kathleen Fink PDF: Through the Garden Legal systems across the globe have been reevaluating employee noncompetes and their impacts on...

By: Alexandr Svetlicinii and Xueji Su PDF: Stick-Based Approach States are increasingly deploying trade sanctions as a reaction to human...

By: Graziella Romeo and Andrea Pin PDF: Kelsenian Originalism This Article challenges the prevailing view that originalism is a uniquely...

By: Zhiyu Li PDF: Two Kinds of Dual States Under the pretense of a national emergency, the Reichstag Fire Decree drastically reshaped the...

By: Ryan M. Jones PDF: Checkmate: Corner Crossing In the United States, there are millions of acres of publicly owned land that are...

By: Anthony Ghaly PDF: From Guns to Scalpels Although codified in the Genocide Convention, few instances of genocide have fallen under...

By: Tamar Giladi Shtub & Michal S. Gal PDF: Data Without Borders Data has no inherent jurisdictional boundaries, and cross- border data...

By: Zachary Mollengarden PDF: Moral Hazard in International Economic Law The general premise of moral hazard is intuitive. Actors behave...

By: William McGoughran PDF: A Cultural Property Interest States have called for, and negotiated with, the British Museum for decades,...