Scholars and pharmaceutical industry representatives consider the United States a worldwide leader in pharmaceutical innovation. However,...

Diasporas—understood as groups of individuals or communities who carry an image of a homeland that is separate from the host land in...

Salini v. Morocco sparked one of the liveliest controversies in the dynamic field of international investment disputes. Salini held that...

Among the most persistent controversies in international investment law is the nature of the “protection and security” standard found in...

Once considered nothing more than “mere” estate-planning devices, trusts play a large and growing role in the international economy,...

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Merger law in the United States has historically relied on a system of private ordering with as little intervention from the federal...

National Hockey League player Sheldon Kennedy’s 1997 revelation that his award-winning junior hockey coach had molested him for years...

Election monitoring efforts have a crucial role to play in attaining the goals of self-determination and democratic sovereignty.  Yet...

Residents of underdeveloped countries who belong to ethnic, racial, sexual, and political minorities usually endure relatively...

Like many other countries in the world, the United Kingdom has been modernizing its constitutional arrangements.  But unlike all other...

Legislative avoidance of principled decisions on substantive questions by transferring the decision-making task to the executive branch,...

The growth in the number of bounty hunters and civilian contractors accompanying the U.S. military into battle has swelled during the...

It was less than thirty years ago that China stood economically isolated from the rest of the world. Times have certainly changed.  Today...

The shortage in transplantable organs worldwide not only leads to unnecessary death, but also to grave human rights abuses through...

One of the most controversial and politically charged issues in current human rights discourse is whether and to what extent states are...

The Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) was supposed to increase legal certainty and reduce the transaction...

Not that long ago, international family law (IFL) referred to a series of multilateral conventions basically concerned with conflicts of...

Professor Harold G. Maier began teaching at Vanderbilt University Law School in 1965 and held the David Daniels Allen Distinguished...

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