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Proportionality in Military Force at War’s Multiple Levels: Averting Civilian Casualties vs. Safegu
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...
May 29, 2013
Civil Actions for Acts that Are Valid According to Religious Family Law but Harm Women’s Rights: Leg
This Article analyzes the implications of legal pluralism when religious family law conflicts with state civil tort law. Refusal to grant...
May 29, 2013
International Student Athletes and NCAA Amateurism: Setting an Equitable Standard for Eligibility af
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...
Apr 11, 2013
Towards a Declaratory School of Government Recognition
Recognition of governments has historically been a political matter. Governments could choose to recognize or not to recognize any other...
Apr 11, 2013
First Amendment and “Foreign-Controlled” U.S. Corporations: Why Congress Ought to Affirm Domestic
Political spending in the modern-day, prolonged election cycle continues to exceed historic proportions. With money equated to speech,...
Apr 11, 2013


Hate Speech and Persecution: A Contextual Approach
Scholarly work on atrocity-speech law has focused almost exclusively on incitement to genocide. But case law has established liability...
Apr 11, 2013


Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction
Statelessness exists in the United States—a fact that should be of concern to advocates of strict immigration control as well as those...
Apr 11, 2013


Lexis Nexus Complexus: Comparative Contract Law and International Accounting Collide in the IASB–FA
U.S. and international accounting-standard setters plan to launch a new, global revenue accounting standard, Revenue from Contracts with...
Apr 11, 2013


Beyond Regulation: A Comparative Look at State-Centric Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law i
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often understood as the voluntary actions firms take beyond legal compliance. However, in recent...
Apr 11, 2013
The Point of a Points System: Attracting Highly Skilled Immigrants the United States Needs and Ensur
In a globalizing world, labor is an increasingly mobile and competitive resource. Responding to this changing labor market, countries...
Feb 12, 2013
Liberalizing the Law in the Land of the Lord: Limits to the Americanization of Israeli Religious Jur
This Note presents an analysis of American and Israeli constitutional jurisprudence concerning matters of religion. Recently, there has...
Feb 12, 2013
Returning Sovereignty to the People
Governments across the world regularly invoke sovereignty to demand that the international community “mind its own business” while they...
Feb 12, 2013


Jurisdictional Standards (and Rules)
This Article uses the jurisprudential dichotomy between two opposing types of legal requirements—“rules” and “standards”—to examine...
Feb 12, 2013


“Gray Zone” Constitutionalism and the Dilemma of Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Many countries exist in a “gray zone” between authoritarianism and democracy. For countries in this conceptual space—which is...
Feb 12, 2013
A Chink in the Armor: How a Uniform Approach to Proportionality Analysis Can End the Use of Human Sh
The appropriate response to human shields is a recurring issue in modern warfare. Technological asymmetry, disparate obligations, and...
Nov 28, 2012
The Grass Is Always Greener: Keystone XL, Transboundary Harms, and Guidelines for Cooperative Envir
While general understanding of environmental harms has become more geographically sophisticated, environmental-impact assessment (EIA)...
Nov 28, 2012


Dynamics of Healthcare Reform: Bitter Pills Old and New
The United States is at a crossroads—albeit one it has visited several times before. Although the Supreme Court has ruled upon the...
Nov 28, 2012
Judicial Review of Constitutional Transitions: War and Peace and Other Sundry Matters
Constitutional transition periods present a twilight time between two executives. At such times, the outgoing executive’s authority is...
Nov 28, 2012


Virtual Witness Confrontation in Criminal Cases: A Proposal to Use Videoconferencing Technology in M
Maritime piracy is a serious problem, yet states are not prosecuting captured pirates with any regularity. One of the many reasons cited...
Nov 28, 2012
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