Vol. 44 No. 5

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Jun 15, 2012

Abusing the Authority of the State: Denying Foreign Official Immunity for Egregious Human Rights Abu

Government officials accused of human rights abuses often claim that they are protected by state immunity because only the state can be...

Jun 15, 2012

Changing the International Law of Sovereign Immunity Through National Decisions

The international law of sovereign immunity derives from state practice embodied in national judicial decisions and legislation. Although...

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 15, 2012

Italian Judges’ Point of View on Foreign States’ Immunity

The Article gives an account of the most recent Italian practice as regarding foreign states’ immunity from the jurisdiction of the forum...

Jun 15, 2012

Symposium Epilog: Foreign Sovereign Immunity at Home and Abroad

#ForeignSovereignImmunity #Symposium #Istanbul #Turkish #Pamuk

Jun 15, 2012

The Origins and Limits of Originalism: A Comparative Study

In the debate about originalism in the United States, scholars have devoted scant attention to the question whether the United States...

Jun 15, 2012

The Islamic Rule of Lenity: Judicial Discretion and Legal Canons

This Article explores an area of close parallel between legal doctrines in the contexts of Islamic law and American legal theory. In...

Jun 13, 2012

Foreign Official Immunity After Samantar: A United States Government Perspective

#Samantar #Symposium #Yousuf