The Equator Principles: The Private Financial Sector’s Attempt at Environmental Responsibility
The Equator Principles are a set of voluntary environmental guidelines created to manage environmental degradation that results from...
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Aug 21, 2012
Multinational Enterprises and Workplace Reproductive Health: Extending Corporate Social Responsibili
Corporate social responsibility is a relatively new approach to the protection of human rights. While the human rights to whole-body...
Aug 21, 2012
Creating the Right Mentality: Dealing with the Problem of Juror Delinquency in the New South Korean
The Judiciary Reform Committee of South Korea has planned to implement a five year pilot program that will allow public participation in...
Aug 21, 2012
Attaining Optimal Deterrence at Sea: A Legal and Strategic Theory for Naval Anti-Piracy Operations
On January 21, 2006, a guided missile destroyer accomplished the U.S. Navy’s first capture of suspected pirates in recent memory. As the...
Aug 21, 2012
An International-Comparative Perspective on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing and Third Party Liability in C
–––In the last decade, the phenomenon of peer-to-peer file-sharing and its various legal aspects have been dealt with extensively by...
Aug 21, 2012
Multi-Tiered Marriage: Ideas and Influences from New York and Louisiana to the International Commu
This Article contends that society in the United States needs to hold a genuine discussion about alternatives to current conceptions of...
Aug 16, 2012
Hamdan, Lebanon, and the Regulation of Hostilities: The Need to Recognize a Hybrid Category of Arme
For more than fifty years following the 1949 revision of the Geneva Conventions, legal scholars, government experts, and military...
Aug 16, 2012
Privileged but Equal? A Comparison of U.S. and Israeli Notions of Sex Equality in Employment Law
Ever-expanding media coverage, scholarship, and popular publications discussing the difficulty of combining work and family suggest that...
Aug 16, 2012
The Headscarf as Threat: A Comparison of German and U.S. Legal Discourses
This Article compares how U.S. and German judges conceptualize the harm the headscarf poses to society. The examples are the 2003 Ludin...
Aug 16, 2012
Harmonization Through Condemnation: Is New London the Key to World Patent Harmony?
Since 1790, when two U.S. patent applicants have claimed the same invention, the patent has been awarded to the first inventor. Today,...
Aug 16, 2012
The Title VII Tug-of-War: Application of U.S. Employment Discrimination Law Extraterritorially
Companies around the world increasingly are engaging in cross-border business transactions. Globalization is a must if companies want to...
Aug 16, 2012
A Paper Tiger with Bite: A Defense of the War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution (WPR) has led a beleaguered existence. Since its enactment in 1973, it has been labeled ineffectual and...
Aug 16, 2012
Coercion, Causation, and the Fictional Elements of Indirect State Responsibility
This Article provides an in-depth analysis of Article 18 of the 2001 ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility, which holds a coercing...
Aug 16, 2012
To Condone or Condemn? Regional Enforcement Actions in the Absence of Security Council Authorizatio
The U.N. Charter establishes that regional arrangements may not take enforcement actions without authorization from the Security...
Aug 16, 2012
India-Pakistan Relations: Legalization and Agreement Design
This Article examines agreements between India and Pakistan to determine if there are design features that played a part in their success...
Aug 16, 2012
The Legal and Social Implications of Insolvent Cross-Border Real Estate Developers: Reviewing the U.
This article analyzes the phenomena associated with cyclical real estate markets, discussing the theoretical and market influences which...
Aug 16, 2012
Elite Law Firm Mergers and Reputational Competition: Is Bigger Really Better? An International Co
Although rapid law firm growth has persisted since the 1980s, the acceleration of this trend over the last decade by means of mergers is...
Aug 10, 2012
Food Safety and Security: What Tragedy Teaches Us about Our 100-Year-Old Food Laws
The United States food safety system is antiquated and failing. The laws that form the foundation of our food protection and govern the...
Aug 10, 2012
The Role of International Agreements in Achieving Food Security: How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Fe
This Article discusses how international agreements impact the ability of science and technology to enhance food security. International...
Aug 10, 2012
Empathizing with France and Pakistan on Agricultural Subsidy Issues in the Doha Round
Among the most contentious issues (if not the most contentious issue) in the Doha Round negotiations are agricultural subsidies....
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