The Convention on Cluster Munitions: An Incomplete Solution to the Cluster Munition Problem
Cluster munitions have been a significant weapon in the world’s arsenals for the last half-century, but their use has drawn sharp...
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Jul 2, 2012
Rethinking Jurisdictional Discovery Under the Hague Evidence Convention
When a federal court in the United States compels the discovery of information located abroad to determine whether it has jurisdiction...
Jul 2, 2012
The United States–El Salvador Extradition Treaty: A Dated Obstacle in the Transnational War Against
This Note discusses the dramatic proliferation of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) over the last two decades, primarily focusing on the...
Jul 1, 2012
The Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000: The United States’ Ratification of the Hague Convention on th
This Note explores the effect of the United States’ ratification of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in...
Jul 1, 2012
The Legality of the West Bank Wall: Israel’s High Court of Justice v. the International Court of Jus
This Article offers a critique of the decision reached by Israel’s High Court of Justice in the Mara’abe Case (2005) as well as some...
Jun 28, 2012
Green Jackets in Men’s Sizes Only: Gender Discrimination at Private Country Clubs
On November 3, 2009, the Supreme Court of Ireland held that the Portmarnock Golf Club could maintain its rule prohibiting female...
Jun 28, 2012
The Double-Helix Double-Edged Sword: Comparing DNA Retention Policies of the United States and the U
Forensic scientists have used DNA profiling technologies to link suspects to crimes since Alec Jeffreys first proposed the idea in the...
Jun 28, 2012
Forced to Flee and Forced to Repatriate? How the Cessation Clause of Article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1
The purpose of refugee law is to provide international protection for vulnerable people who are denied state protection. In fulfilling...
Jun 28, 2012
The Convention on Cluster Munitions: An Incomplete Solution to the Cluster Munition Problem
Cluster munitions have been a significant weapon in the world’s arsenals for the last half-century, but their use has drawn sharp...
Jun 27, 2012
A New Standard for Evaluating Claims of Economic Persecution Under the 1951 Convention Relating to t
The United Nations Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees define the requirements for qualification as a “refugee”...
Jun 15, 2012
Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: The Unconstitutional Scope of E
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the approval of the Obama Administration, conducts targeted killings of individual suspected...
Jun 15, 2012
Life After Morrison: Extraterritoriality and RICO
For years, the federal courts of appeals have borrowed heavily from securities law jurisprudence in developing a framework for analyzing...
Jun 15, 2012
Three Structural Changes for a New System of International Climate Change Mitigation Agreements Base
Past policy approaches to achieving international climate change mitigation have restricted the means for achieving mitigation to broad...
Jun 13, 2012
Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: Securing Effective Exchange of Information to Remedy the Harmful Effec
The enforcement of tax laws abroad has long posed problems for authorities. However, that enforcement becomes increasingly more...
Jun 13, 2012
To Break Free from Tyranny and Oppression: Proposing a Model for a Remedial Right to Secession in th
Too often states have invoked territorial integrity and nonintervention in defending abuses perpetrated against peoples within their...
Jun 13, 2012
Signal and Affirm: How the United Nations Should Articulate the Right to Remedial Secession
In international law, the right of peoples to self-determination as applied to remedial secession is anything but clear. The...
Jun 8, 2012
Promises of Leniency: Whether Companies Should Self-Disclose Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Pract
Over the last ten years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has prosecuted an increasing number of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
Jun 8, 2012
A Complementarity Conundrum: International Criminal Enforcement in the Mexican Drug War
Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed over 34,000 lives since Mexican President Felipe Calderón initiated his crackdown on Mexico’s...
Jun 6, 2012
Secular Crosses and the Neutrality of Secularism: Reflections on the Demands of Neutrality and its
This Note discusses analogous themes in two religious public display cases, Lautsi v. Italy, recently decided by the Grand Chamber of the...
Jun 6, 2012
Plugging the Leak in § 1498: Coercing the United States into Notifying Patent Owners of Government U
When the United States uses a patent for public, noncommercial purposes, it is required under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of...
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