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Vol. 30 No. 2
(Sepinwall • Trahan • King • Weiss • McDonough)
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- Failures to Punish: Command Responsibility in Domestic and International Law
- Amy J. Sepinwall
- Article
- A Critical Guide to the Iraqi High Tribunal’s Anfal Judgement: Genocide Against the Kurds
- Jennifer Trahan
- Article
- Challenging Monohumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption
- Shani King
- Student Note
- The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, SEC Disgorgement of Profits, and the Evolving International Bribery Regime: Weighing Proportionality, Retribution, and Deterrence
- David C. Weiss
- Student Note
- Revisiting Germany’s Residenzpflicht in Light of Modern EU Asylum Law
- Paul McDonough
Previous Issues
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Vol. 30 No. 1
(Halley • Bruner • Macklem • Webster)
- Article
- Rape at Rome: Feminist Interventions in the Criminalization of Sex-Related Violence in Positive International Criminal Law
- Janet Halley
- Article
- States, Markets, and Gatekeepers: Public-Private Regulatory Regimes in an Era of Economic Globalization
- Christopher M. Bruner
- Essay
- Indigenous Recognition in International Law: Theoretical Observations
- Patrick Macklem
- Essay
- Reconstituting Japanese Law: International Norms and Domestic Litigation
- Timothy Webster
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Vol. 29 No. 4
(Kelly • Karayanni • Samuels • Trumbull)
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- Institutional Alliances and Derivative Legitimacy
- Claire R. Kelly
- Article
- The Quest for Creative Jurisdiction: The Evolution of Personal Jurisdiction Doctrine of Israeli Courts Toward the Palestinian Territories
- Michael M. Karayanni
- Article
- Condominium Arrangements in International Practice: Reviving an Abandoned Concept of Boundary Dispute Resolution
- Joel H. Samuels
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- The Victims of Victim Participation in International Criminal Proceedings
- Charles P. Trumbull
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Vol. 29 No. 3
(Bowman • Cooper • Grasso)
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- "Normalizing" the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
- Michael Bowman
- Article
- Competing Legal Cultures and Legal Reform: The Battle of Chile
- James M. Cooper
- Student Note
- The E.U. Leniency Program and U.S. Civil Discovery Rules: A Fraternal Fight?
- Roberto Grasso
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Vol. 29 No. 2
(Schmitt • Howse / Genser • Fry)
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- "Change Direction" 2006: Israeli Operations in Lebanon and the International Law of Self-Defense
- Michael N. Schmitt
- Article
- Are EU Trade Sanctions on Burma Compatible with WTO Law?
- Robert L. Howse, Jared M. Genser
- Article
- Dionysian Disarmament: Security Council WMD Coercive Disarmament Measures and Their Legal Implications
- James D. Fry
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Vol. 29 No. 1
(Abebe • Teitel • Handeyside • Khalili-Borna)
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- Not Just Doctrine: The True Motivation for Federal Incorporation and International Human Rights Litigation
- Daniel Abebe
- Article
- Militating Democracy: Comparative Constitutional Perspectives
- Ruti Teitel
- Student Note
- The Lotus Principle in ICJ Jurisprudence: Was the Ship Ever Afloat?
- Hugh Handeyside
- Student Note
- Technological Advancement and International Human Rights: Is Science Improving Human Life or Perpetuating Human Rights Violations?
- Christine A. Khalili-Borna
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Vol. 28 No. 4
(Gololobov • Hsieh • Jouannet • Coulson)
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- The Yukos Money Laundering Case: A Never-Ending Story
- Dmitry Gololobov
- Article
- The Unrecognized State in Foreign and International Courts: The Case of the Republic of China on Taiwan
- Pasha L. Hsieh
- Essay
- What Is the Use of International Law? International Law as a 21st Century Guardian of Welfare
- Emmanuelle Jouannet
- Student Note
- Criminal Conspiracy Law in Japan
- Chris Coulson
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Vol. 28 No. 3
(Ratner • Smith • Chesterman • Garraway • Radsan • Sulmasy / Yoo • Baker • Bignami • Fleck)
- Introduction
- Symposium on State Intelligence Gathering and International Law
- Steven R. Ratner
- Keynote Address
- Symposium on State Intelligence Gathering and International Law
- Jeffrey H. Smith
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- Secrets and Lies: Intelligence Activities and the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis
- Simon Chesterman
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- State Intelligence Gathering: Conflict of Laws
- Charles H.B. Garraway
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- The Unresolved Equation of Espionage and International Law
- A. John Radsan
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- Counterintuitive: Intelligence Operations and International Law
- Glenn Sulmasy, John Yoo
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- What's International Law Got to Do with It? Transnational Law and the Intelligence Mission
- James E. Baker
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- Towards a Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks
- Francesca Bignami
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- Individual and State Responsibility for Intelligence Gathering
- Dieter Fleck
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Vol. 28 No. 2
(Hathaway • Foster • Allen • Kittrie • Maalouf • Williams • Kent)
- Special Feature
- The Michigan Guidelines on Protection Elsewhere, Adopted January 3, 2007
- James C. Hathaway
- Special Feature
- Protection Elsewhere: The Legal Implications of Requiring Refugees to Seek Protection in Another State
- Michelle Foster
- Article
- Compensation for Property Under the European Convention on Human Rights
- Tom Allen
- Article
- Averting Catastrophe: Why the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is Losing its Deterrence Capacity
- Orde F. Kittrie
- Student Note
- Impediments to Financial Development in the Banking Sector: A Comparison of the Impact of Federalism in the United States and Germany
- Khalil Nicholas Maalouf
- Student Note
- Privatization and the Human Right to Water: Challenges for the New Century
- Melina Williams
- Student Note
- Custody, Maintenance, and Succession: The Internalization of Women's and Children's Rights Under Customary Law in Africa
- Allison D. Kent
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Vol. 28 No. 1
(Wexler • Laplante / Theidon • Cheng • Batchelder • Rubinson)
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- Take the Long Way Home: Sub-Federal Integration of Unratified and Non-Self-Executing Treaty Law
- Lesley Wexler
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- Transitional Justice in Times of Conflict: Colombia's Ley de Justicia y Paz
- Lisa J. Laplante, Kimberly Theidon
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- Powers, Norms, and International Intellectual Property Law
- Tai-Heng Cheng
- Comment
- An Analysis of Potential Conflicts Between the Stockholm Convention and its Parties' WTO Obligations
- D. Dean Batchelder
- Student Note
- Regional Projects Require Regional Planning: Human Rights Impacts Arising from Infrastructure Projects
- Abby Rubinson
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Vol. 27 No. 4
(Michaels • Chesterman • Yang • Kadish / Olson • Diehl / Ginsburg • Kanji)
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- Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction
- Ralf Michaels
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- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold War: Intelligence and International Law
- Simon Chesterman
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- International Treaty Enforcement as a Public Good: Institutional Deterrent Sanctions in International Agreements
- Tseming Yang
- Article
- Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: The Supreme Court, the Right to Consul, and Remediation
- Mark J. Kadish, Charles C. Olson
- Essay
- Irrational War and Constitutional Design: A Reply to Professors Nzelibe and Yoo
- Paul F. Diehl, Tom Ginsburg
- Student Note
- Paper Dragon: Inadequate Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in China
- Omario Kanji
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Vol. 27 No. 3
(Howson / West • Whitehead • Feldman • Peerenboom • Haley • Miyazawa • Nelken • Anderson • Tanase • Pistor)
- Introduction
- Law, Norms, and Legal Change: Global and Local in China and Japan
- Nicholas C. Howson, Mark D. West
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- What's Your Sign? - International Norms, Signals, and Compliance
- Charles K. Whitehead
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- The Culture of Legal Change: A Case Study of Tobacco Control in Twenty-First Century Japan
- Eric A. Feldman
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- What Have We Learned About Law and Development? Describing, Predicting, and Assessing Legal Reforms in China
- Randall Peerenboom
- Comment
- Law and Culture in China and Japan: A Framework for Analysis
- John O. Haley
- Comment
- How Does Culture Count in Legal Change?: A Review with a Proposal from a Social Movement Perspective
- Setsuo Miyazawa
- Comment
- Signaling Conformity: Changing Norms in Japan and China
- David Nelken
- Review Essay
- The Next Generation: Milhaupt and West on Japanese Economic Law
- Kent Anderson
- Article
- Global Markets and the Evolution of Law in China and Japan
- Takao Tanase
- Comment
- The Law and the Non-Law
- Katharina Pistor
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Vol. 27 No. 2
(Donohue • Chuang • Levitt • Zoellner • Ostrovsky / Reavis • Gercas)
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- Anti-Terrorist Finance in the United Kingdom and United States
- Laura K. Donohue
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- The United States as Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions to Combat Human Trafficking
- Janie Chuang
- Article
- Illegal Peace?: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power-Sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa
- Jeremy I. Levitt
- Student Note
- Transparency: An Analysis of an Evolving Fundamental Principle in International Economic Law
- Carl-Sebastian Zoellner
- Comment
- Rebus Sic Stantibus: Notification of Consular Rights After Medellin
- Aaron A. Ostrovsky, Brandon E. Reavis
- Student Note
- The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: Promoting International Discussion on the Morality of Non-Therapeutic Research on Children
- Anna Gercas
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Vol. 27 No. 1
(Lee • Chinen • Suzuki / Nanwani • Weber • Guzman • Geiss)
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- The and Culture of the Apology in Korean Dispute Settlement (with Japan and the United States in Mind)
- Ilhyung Lee
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- Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan and the Use of Procedural and Substantive Heuristics for Consensus
- Mark A. Chinen
- Article
- Responsibility of International Organizations: The Accountability Mechanisms of Multilateral Development Banks
- Eisuke Suzuki, Suresh Nanwani
- Student Note
- Can the Sauvegarde Reform Save French Bankruptcy Law?: A Comparative Look at Chapter 11 and French Bankruptcy Law from an Agency Cost Perspective
- Robert Weber
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- Saving Customary International Law
- Andrew T. Guzman
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- Civil Aircraft as Weapons of Large-Scale Destruction: Countermeasures, Article 3BIS of the Chicago Convention, and the Newly Adopted German "Luftsicherheitsgesetz"
- Robin Geiss
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Vol. 26 No. 4
(Radelet • George • MacKinnon • Fletcher • Crow • Valek)
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- Supporting Sustained Economic Development
- Steven Radelet
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- Instructions in Inequality: Development, Human Rights, Capabilities, and Gender Violence in Schools
- Erika George
- Article
- Pornography as Trafficking
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Article
- From Indifference to Engagement: Bystanders and International Criminal Justice
- Laurel E. Fletcher
- Article
- From Dyad to Triad: Reconceptualizing the Lawyer-Client Relationship for Litigation in Regional Human Rights Commissions
- Melissa E. Crow
- Student Note
- Is Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention Compatible with the U.N. Charter?
- Petr Valek
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Vol. 26 No. 3
(Frischtak • Nowak • Kieval • Bignami)
- Student Note
- Balancing Judicial Economy, State Opportunism, and Due Process Concerns in the WTO
- Ana Frischtak
- Student Note
- Staying Within the Negotiated Framework: Abiding by the Non-Discrimination Clause in TRIPs Article 27
- Kevin J. Nowak
- Student Note
- Be Reasonable! Thoughts on the Effectiveness of State Criticism in Enforcing International Law
- Michael Y. Kieval
- Article
- Transgovernmental Networks vs. Democracy: The Case of the European Information Privacy Network
- Francesca Bignami
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Vol. 26 No. 2
(Hathaway • Hathaway / Hicks • Cone, III • Kilborn • Sieberson • Surdukowski • Ukpabi)
- Special Feature
- Third Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law: The Michigan Guidelines on Well-Founded Fear
- James C. Hathaway
- Article
- Is There a Subjective Element in the Refugee Convention's Requirement of "Well-Founded Fear"?
- James C. Hathaway, William S. Hicks
- Article
- The Promotion of Free-Trade Areas Viewed in Terms of Most-Favored-Nation Treatment and "Imperial Preference"
- Sydney M. Cone, III
- Article
- La Responsabilisation de l'Economie: What the United States Can Learn from the New French Law on Consumer Overindebtedness
- Jason J. Kilborn
- Article
- Worth Doing Well - The Improvable European Union Constitution
- Stephen C. Sieberson
- Student Note
- Is Poetry a War Crime? Reckoning for Radovan Karadzic the Poet-Warrior
- Jay Surdukowski
- Student Note
- Juridical Substance or Myth Over Balance-of-Payment: Developing Countries and the Role of the International Monetary Fund in the World Trade Organization
- Ugochukwu Chima Ukpabi
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Vol. 26 No. 1
(Kuttner • Barr / Avi-Yonah • Avi-Yonah • Hiatt / Greenfield • Davis • Rittich • Gindling / Terrell • Barr • Littlewood • Berkowitz / Moenius / Pistor • Braithwaite • Clunies-Ross • Correa • Daniels / Trebilcock • Srinivasan • Malhotra • Hassett • Bouab)
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- Development, Globalization, and Law
- Robert L. Kuttner
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- Globalization, Law & Development: Introduction and Overview
- Michael S. Barr, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
- Article
- Bridging the North/South Divide: International Redistribution and Tax Competition
- Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
- Article
- The Importance of Core Labor Rights in World Development
- Jonathan P. Hiatt, Deborah Greenfield
- Article
- What Can the Rule of Law Variable Tell Us About Rule of Law Reforms?
- Kevin E. Davis
- Article
- The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social
- Kerry Rittich
- Article
- Minimum Wages, Inequality, and Globalization
- T.H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell
- Article
- Microfinance and Financial Development
- Michael S. Barr
- Article
- Tax Competition: Harmful to Whom?
- Michael Littlewood
- Article
- Legal Institutions and International Trade Flows
- Daniel Berkowitz, Johannes Moenius, Katharina Pistor
- Article
- Methods of Power for Development: Weapons of the Weak, Weapons of the Strong
- John Braithwaite
- Article
- Development Finance: Beyond Budgetary “Official Development Assistance”
- Anthony Clunies-Ross
- Article
- Investment Protection in Bilateral and Free Trade Agreements: Implications for the Granting of Compulsory Licenses
- Carlos M. Correa
- Article
- The Political Economy of Rule of Law Reform in Developing Countries
- Ronald J. Daniels, Michael Trebilcock
- Article
- Development: Domestic Constraints and External Opportunities from Globalization
- T.N. Srinivasan
- Comment
- The Purpose of Development
- Kamal Malhotra
- Comment
- The Role of Trade & Foreign Direct Investment in Development
- Kevin A. Hassett
- Comment
- Financing for Development, the Monterrey Consensus: Achievements and Prospects
- Abdel Hamid Bouab
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Vol. 25 No. 4
(Koch, Jr. • Hafner • Tahvanainen • Jackson • Pauwelyn • Meltzer • Rao • Burke-White • Philpott • Paulus • Sarooshi • Paust • Tahvanainen • Tice / Nelson • Nicolaidis / Tong • Cardenas • Wellens • Krasner • Francioni • Kurtz)
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- Judicial Dialogue for Legal Multiculturalism
- Charles H. Koch, Jr.
- Article
- Pros and Cons Ensuing from Fragmentation of International Law
- Gerhard Hafner
- Essay
- Commentary to Professor Hafner
- Annika Tahvanainen
- Article
- The Varied Policies of International Juridical Bodies - Reflections on Theory and Practice
- John H. Jackson
- Article
- Bridging Fragmentation and Unity: International Law as a Universe of Inter-Connected Islands
- Joost Pauwelyn
- Comment
- Interpreting the WTO Agreements - A Commentary on Professor Pauwelyn's Approach (with Reply)
- Joshua Meltzer
- Article
- Multiple International Judicial Forums: A Reflection of the Growing Strength of International Law or its Fragmentation?
- Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao
- Article
- International Legal Pluralism
- William W. Burke-White
- Article
- Religious Freedom and the Undoing of the Westphalian State
- Daniel Philpott
- Comment
- Commentary to Andreas Fischer-Lescano & Gunther Teubner: The Legitimacy of International Law and the Role of the State (with Reply)
- Andreas L. Paulus
- Article
- The Essentially Contested Nature of the Concept of Sovereignty: Implications for the Exercise by International Organizations of Delegated Powers of Government
- Dan Sarooshi
- Article
- The Reality of Private Rights, Duties, and Participation in the International Legal Process
- Jordan J. Paust
- Comment
- Commentary to Professor Guibernau (with Reply)
- Annika Tahvanainen
- Comment
- A Commentary to Montserrat Guibernau, Nations Without States: Political Communities in the Global Age
- Beatrice Tice, Jason Nelson
- Article
- Diversity or Cacophony? The Continuing Debate Over New Sources of International Law
- Kalypso Nicolaidis, Joyce L. Tong
- Article
- The United Nations Security Council's Quest for Effectiveness
- Emilio J. Cardenas
- Article
- Fragmentation of International Law and Establishing an Accountability Regime for International Organizations: The Role of the Judiciary in Closing the Gap
- Karel Wellens
- Article
- The Hole in the Whole: Sovereignty, Shared Sovereignty, and International Law
- Stephen D. Krasner
- Article
- Beyond State Sovereignty: The Protection of Cultural Heritage as a Shared Interest of Humanity
- Francesco Francioni
- Comment
- Commentary to Professor Stephen Krasner
- Jurgen Kurtz
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