Article 37 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) aims to protect the interests of foreign national children by requiring...

The United States has been combating the bribery of foreign officials for 35 years through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Both...

The U.S. asylum system is noble but flawed. Scholars have long recognized that asylum is a “scarce” political resource, but U.S. law...

This Article is the first to analyze prison location and its relationship to U.S. and international theories of criminal punishment....

Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency among established democracies to battle political extremism by banning extremist parties....

Plain packaging of cigarettes as a way of reducing tobacco consumption and its related health costs and effects raises a number of...

It has long been claimed that international lawmaking has grown pluralized in the sense that it has allegedly moved away from the...

This Article argues that, rather than being mere targets, governments can and do engage in “reverse rhetorical entrapment,” thus shaping...

Any account of international law that does not explain the role of lawyers will necessarily be deficient. This is particularly the case...

The Kimberley Process did not end the major diamond wars, but it entirely changed the way the trade in rough diamonds was managed and...

Margulies newSome evidence suggests that informal negotiators have been either targeted or become collateral damage in U.S. drone...

This Essay sets out three models of institutional constraint of global corporate power. First is private lawmaking, in which the...

Seasteading––homesteading of the modern era––is a desire to develop above-water settlements in international waters known as seasteads....

Experts believe that global reserves of phosphates, an essential and irreplaceable ingredient in fertilizers, will only last another...

Nuclear disarmament advocates have provided a strong moral voice for the total disarmament of nuclear weapons, but if they are to remain...

The situation in Syria has the potential to become a pivotal moment in the development of the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The ongoing...

To what lengths may a state go to protect its soldiers in war? May it design its military operations to further that goal if this...

This Article analyzes the implications of legal pluralism when religious family law conflicts with state civil tort law. Refusal to grant...

The United States is often called the land of opportunity. In many ways it has proven so, but this is not always the case. International...

Recognition of governments has historically been a political matter. Governments could choose to recognize or not to recognize any other...