Childhood obesity has tripled in the U.S. since the 1970s, and television advertisement of unhealthy foods has been linked to the...

The international community rose to the challenge of addressing mass migration with the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of...

Since the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been in force, national implementation of the access to and benefit-sharing (ABS)...

Under international law, civilians suffering injuries that are incidental to a lawful attack on a military objective are left to bear the...

In the global fight against biopiracy, one of the key issues is to prevent the grant and exploitation of patents on traditional knowledge...

The secession of Kosovo from Serbia in February 2008 represents a stage in the unfolding of a revolution of “constitutional” dimensions...

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...