Resolving the Dissonance of Rodriguez and the Right to Education: International Human Rights Instru
Education exists as a fundamental right recognized by countries worldwide. Overwhelming support for the right to education is reflected...
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- Jul 24, 2012
Reinventing American Immigration Policy for the 21st Century
With an estimated eleven to twelve million undocumented workers currently in the United States, the need for immigration reform is...
- Jul 24, 2012
Increasing Global Demand for an Uncensored Internet—How the U.S. Can Help Defeat Online Censorship b
This Note discusses efforts to defeat government censorship of the Internet. In the narrow meaning of that idea, this Note initially...
- Jul 24, 2012
Lost in Translation: International Criminal Tribunals and the Legal Implications of Interpreted Tes
When courtroom interpreters translate a witness’s testimony, errors are not just possible, they are inherent to the process. Moreover,...
- Jul 24, 2012
Neotrusteeship or Mistrusteeship? The “Authority Creep” Dilemma in United Nations Transitional Admin
State failure poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. The collapse of governing institutions breeds civil...
- Jul 24, 2012
The Bologna Process and Its Impact in Europe: It’s So Much More than Degree Changes
The Bologna Process is a massive, multi-year project designed to create the “European Higher Education Area” by the year 2010. It began...
- Jul 23, 2012
Tissue Tug-of-War: A Comparison of International and U.S. Perspectives on the Regulation of Human Ti
Every day in the United States and around the world, patients and research participants at hospitals and doctors’ offices give biological...
- Jul 23, 2012
The Regulation of DDT: A Choice between Evils
DDT has the potential for great benefit and great harm. It is currently the most efficient method for controlling malaria, particularly...
- Jul 23, 2012
Do Norms Still Matter? The Corrosive Effects of Globalization on the Vitality of Norms
Why does the process of globalization undermine the power of social norms to regulate behavior? Norms are the social regularities that...
- Jul 23, 2012
Liberating the Individual from Battles between States: Justifying Party Autonomy in Conflict of Law
Current theories of conflict of laws have one common feature: they all consider the question of the applicable law in terms of a conflict...
- Jul 23, 2012
The Challenges and Risks of Creating Independent Regulatory Agencies: A Cautionary Tale from Brazil
Between 1996 and 2002, the Brazilian government established independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for electricity, telecommunications,...
- Jul 23, 2012
Trade, Empires, and Subjects—China-Africa Trade: A New Fair Trade Arrangement, or the Third Scrambl
Since 2000, the interest of the People’s Republic of China (China) in Africa has grown steadily. Trade between China and Africa has...
- Jul 23, 2012
Authorizing Subnational Constitutions in Transitional Federal States: South Africa, Democracy, and t
Not all federal systems permit their constituent units to adopt constitutions. This Article considers whether, and under what...
- Jul 23, 2012
Looking Beyond the Dabhol Debacle: Examining its Causes and Understanding its Lessons
This Note analyzes foreign direct investment in India, looking into the investment troubles surrounding the Dabhol power project, India’s...
- Jul 23, 2012
Voodoo Economics: A Look Abroad for a Supply-Side Solution to America’s Campaign-Finance Riddle
The title of this Note—“voodoo economics”—is, at its core, an analogy: U.S. campaign-finance regulation operates like a price ceiling in...
- Jul 23, 2012
A Coherent Policy Proposal for U.S. Residence-Based Taxation of Individuals
Taxation of the worldwide income of U.S. citizens has been a feature of the U.S. income tax since the Revenue Act of 1913. This Article...
- Jul 23, 2012
Duress, Demanding Heroism, and Proportionality
This Article discusses the Erdemovic case in order to examine whether duress should be a defense to a crime against humanity. Although...
- Jul 23, 2012
Recapturing Public Power: Is Investment Arbitration’s Engagement of the Public Interest Contributing
Globalization has changed the way sovereign states regulate their societies. The effect of globalization has been the creation of...
- Jul 23, 2012
Gender Justice through Public Interest Litigation: Case Studies from India*
This Article examines the application of the Supreme Court of India’s enterprising Public Interest Litigation (PIL) mechanism to a...
- Jul 20, 2012
Towards Global Convenience, Fairness, and Judicial Economy: An Argument in Support of Conditional F
The Supreme Court held in Sinochem Int’l Co. Ltd. v. Malaysia Int’l Shipping Corp., that federal district courts can dismiss cases under...
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