The 2008 Jonathan I. Charney Lecture in International Law Presented at Vanderbilt University Law School on April 11, 2008 #2008...

A final rule promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2008 allowing foreign private securities issuers to prepare...

The positive theory of litigation predicts that, under certain conditions, plaintiffs and defendants achieve an unremarkable and roughly...

This Article seeks to develop a clear and sensible legal standard governing defensive first strikes writ large in inter-state conflicts. ...

A new kind of international regulatory system is spontaneously arising out of the failure of international “Old Governance” (i.e.,...

The United States actively impacts the legal and political environments of developing countries through the Millennium Challenge Account...

Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the interpretation given to it by many in the international community (e.g., UN, NGOs,...

Underwater cultural heritage (UCH), which includes evidence of past cultures preserved in shipwrecks, enables the relevant epistemic...

The eight United Nations human rights treaty bodies play an important role in establishing the normative content of human rights and in...

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa entered into force in 2005.  Met with...

In December 2007, the WTO awarded Antigua the right to suspend TRIPS obligations at a value of $21 million.  This decision represents the...

In the United States, police officers regularly employ deceptive interrogation tactics to extract confession evidence from suspects....

#Arctic #Arcticsymposium #February2009 #Symposium2009

The Article discusses in four distinct parts disputes relating to maritime boundaries in the Arctic; “gaps” in the legal regime in the...

Arctic warming has myriad implications for the Arctic environment, residents, and nations.  Although definitive predictions are...

Concern over the loss of sea ice has renewed discussions over the legal status of the Arctic and subarctic transcontinental maritime...

From Martin Frobisher in 1576 to John Franklin in 1845, generations of European explorers searched for a navigable route through the...

This Article explores when international third-party dispute settlement forums may hear cases concerning the outer limits of a...

As policymakers, academia, and the media have paid increased attention to the Arctic region, there is more evidence of a certain lack of...

This Article situates the Arctic in global environmental history across the long duration of time. For millions of years, the Arctic has...