Determining International Responsibility Under the New Extra-EU Investment Agreements: What Foreign
The EU’s newly acquired competence over foreign investment poses largely unprecedented legal challenges: the Union’s unique structure and...
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- Dec 20, 2014
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and Canada: Fractured Neoliberalism and the Regulator
Although both Canada and the United States review foreign investment for national security concerns, Canada also requires that the...
- Dec 20, 2014
The United Nations Watercourses Convention on the Dawn of Entry Into Force
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (Watercourses Convention) entered...
- Dec 20, 2014
Manifest Illegality and the ICC Superior Orders Defense: Schuldtheorie Mistake of Law Doctrine as an
While the Anglo-American and international legal systems adhere to the rule that “a mistake of the law excuses no one,” German...
- Dec 20, 2014
The Dehumanization of International Humanitarian Law: Legal, Ethical, and Political Implications of
In the future, a growing number of combat operations will be carried out by autonomous weapon systems (AWS). At the operational level,...
- Dec 20, 2014
Getting Off the Mommy Track: An International Model Law Solution to the Global Maternity Discrimina
Women’s roles in workplaces around the globe have been growing steadily for the past half-century. Yet, in everything from pay to...
- Nov 27, 2014
Multiple Nationality and Refugees
Full text PDF available here: Bauer Final (PDF) Persons with more than one nationality (“multiple nationals”) who flee persecution in...
- Nov 27, 2014
Navigating the Minefield of Trade Secrets Protection in China
Many Multinational Companies (MNCs) now consider trade secrets to be the most important intellectual property right in China, ahead of...
- Nov 27, 2014
Anarchy, Order, and Trade: A Structuralist Account of Why a Global Commercial Legal Order is Emergin
While still fragmented, the world is witnessing the emergence of a global commercial legal order independent of any one national legal...
- Nov 27, 2014
Judging Leaders Who Facilitate Crimes by a Foreign Army: International Courts Differ on a Novel Lega
In one of the most significant cases in the history of international criminal law, Prosecutor v. Perišić, the International Criminal...
- Nov 27, 2014
Soy Dominicano – The Status of Haitian Descendants Born in the Dominican Republic and Measures to Pr
In September 25, 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic retroactively interpreted the Dominican Constitution to deny...
- Nov 27, 2014
Gimme Shelter: International Political Asylum in the Information Age
On June 5, 2013, an article in the Guardian revealed highly classified information about surveillance operations being performed by the...
- May 30, 2014
The Monetary Fifth Column: The Eurodollar Threat to Financial Stability and Economic Sovereignty
Eurodollars are dollar-denominated deposit liabilities of banks outside the United States. Even though estimates of the size of the...
- May 30, 2014
The Epic Struggle for Dolphin-Safe Tuna: To Be Continued—A Case for Accommodating Nonprotectionist E
In May 2012, the World Trade Organization (WTO) struck down the United States’ dolphin-safe tuna labeling standard as a barrier to trade...
- May 30, 2014
Separation Anxiety? Rethinking the Role of Morality in International Human Rights Lawmaking
The conventional accounts of international law do a poor job accounting for human rights. International legal positivists generally argue...
- May 30, 2014
Function and Dysfunction in Post-Conflict Justice Networks and Communities
The field of post-conflict justice includes many well-known international criminal law and rule of law initiatives, from the...
- May 30, 2014
Undocumented Migrants and the Failures of Universal Individualism
In recent years, advocates and scholars have made increasing efforts to situate undocumented migrants within the human rights framework....
- May 30, 2014
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: A Defense Perspective
This Article analyzes the absence of organs tasked with guaranteeing the rights of the defense in international criminal law. It explains...
- May 16, 2014
Amnesty or Accountability: The Fate of High-Ranking Child Soldiers in Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Arm
In May 2013, Uganda surprisingly resurrected its amnesty provision for two more years after having let it lapse only a year earlier....
- May 16, 2014
Business, Human Rights, and the Promise of Polycentricity
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business...
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