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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 30, 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...
May 16, 2014


Demanding Accountability Where Accountability Is Due: A Functional Necessity Approach to Diplomatic
This Note addresses the inability of domestic workers to seek redress for exploitation by diplomat employers. In examining the legal...
May 16, 2014


Criminal Law Pays: Penal Law’s Contribution to China’s Economic Development
China’s rapid rise to become the second largest economy in the world is nothing short of extraordinary. When economic reforms took off in...
May 14, 2014


VJTL recognizes outstanding work
Jacob Stafford won the Masamichi Yamamoto Second Year Editor Award, which is awarded to a 2L member who has made the most significant...
Mar 28, 2014


Blackwater’s New Battlefield: Toward a Regulatory Regime in the United States for Privately Armed Co
Piracy has reemerged with a vengeance in the twenty-first century. Although it is confined primarily to the horn of Africa, piracy poses...
Mar 17, 2014


The International War Against Doping: Limiting the Collateral Damage from Strict Liability
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Anti-Doping Code are largely considered the model for an effective and well-coordinated...
Mar 17, 2014


Legal Phantoms in Cyberspace: The Problematic Status of Information as a Weapon and a Target Under I
Reports of state-sponsored harmful cyber intrusions abound. The prevailing view among academics holds that if the effects or consequences...
Mar 17, 2014


Will the New ICAO–Beijing Instruments Build a Chinese Wall for International Aviation Security?
The last 6 years have seen an unprecedented level of activity in the field of international aviation law, with the adoption of three new...
Mar 17, 2014


Managing the “Republic of NGOs:” Accountability and Legitimation Problems Facing the UN Cluster Sys
This Article critically assesses the crucial but troubled system for the coordination of international humanitarian assistance—the UN...
Mar 17, 2014


Climate Change, Forests, and International Law: REDD’s Descent into Irrelevance
Forestry activities account for over 17 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2005, parties to the United Nations...
Mar 17, 2014


VJTL Announces New Editorial Board
CLICK HERE: 2014-15 Masthead
Feb 10, 2014


Protecting Immigrant Children by Protecting Their Parents
Sarah Grey’s note, Expanding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Protecting Children by Protecting Their Parents, appears in the...
Feb 3, 2014


Arguments over cigarette packaging still smoking
“[W]hile the normative appeal of tobacco control is strong, there is a normative case to be made for getting trademark (and, more...
Jan 21, 2014
Expanding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Protecting Children by Protecting Their Paren
Article 37 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) aims to protect the interests of foreign national children by requiring...
Jan 8, 2014
220 Years Later and the Commonwealth Is Still Imposing Laws on the United States: A Comparative Look
The United States has been combating the bribery of foreign officials for 35 years through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Both...
Jan 8, 2014


Optimal Asylum
The U.S. asylum system is noble but flawed. Scholars have long recognized that asylum is a “scarce” political resource, but U.S. law...
Jan 8, 2014


Geography and Justice: Why Prison Location Matters in U.S. and International Theories of Criminal Pu
This Article is the first to analyze prison location and its relationship to U.S. and international theories of criminal punishment....
Jan 8, 2014


Defending Democracy: A New Understanding of the Party-Banning Phenomenon
Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency among established democracies to battle political extremism by banning extremist parties....
Jan 8, 2014
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