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Jan 2, 2018
Hidden by Sovereign Shadows: Improving the Domestic Framework for Deterring State-Sponsored Cybercri
This Article analyzes the domestic legal framework applicable to state-sponsored cybercrime. The Article describes several instances...
Jan 2, 2018
The Human Rights Obligations of State-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structures and Principl
The distinction between the obligations of public and private entities, and their relation to law, is well known in classical political...
Jul 4, 2017
The Case for GMOs: Dealing with Clashes between Property Rights and Health and Safety Concerns
A comparative analysis of international decisions concerning genetically modified organism (GMO) controversies reveals the judicial...
Jul 4, 2017
Gene Editing and the Rise of Designer Babies
Nearly as long as human beings have existed on this earth, many people have sought out the ideal of perfecting their population:...
Jul 3, 2017
Executive Agreements Relying on Implied Statutory Authority: A Response to Bodansky and Spiro
Until recently, the law surrounding executive agreements has been a subject of attention from a relatively small number of academics...
Jul 3, 2017
The RCEP and Trans-Pacific Intellectual Property Norms
This Article examines the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) with a focus on the intellectual property norms that it...
Jul 3, 2017
What Will China Do When Land Use Rights Begin to Expire?
China does not permit the private ownership of land. Instead, private parties may obtain the right to use property for up to seventy...
Jul 3, 2017
You’re It! Tag Jurisdiction over Corporations in Canada
In September 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Chevron v. Yaiguaje, a case that legal commentators had been...
Jul 3, 2017
The Perks of Being a Whistleblower: Designing Efficient Leniency Programs in New Antitrust Jurisdict
This Article develops a framework for effective leniency policy design in jurisdictions that have limited or no mileage enforcing...
Jul 3, 2017
A Plurilateral Investment Treaty: Marrying Trade and Investment to Re-Establish a Customary Internat
Despite some inherent risks, foreign direct investment (FDI) is for some the preferred method of investment. The rising number of...
Jul 3, 2017
EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Modern Colonialism Disguised in Violation of the WTO
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) nation-states are the...
Jul 3, 2017
Humanitarian Intervention at the Margins: An Examination of Recent Incidents
Scholarship on humanitarian intervention is plentiful, but actual examples of state practice and opinio juris are sparse. Thus, critics...
Jul 3, 2017
The Right to Regulate in Investor–State Arbitration: Slicing and Dicing Regulatory Carve-Outs
This Article examines the “right to regulate” as the power of a sovereign state to adopt and maintain government measures for public...
Jul 3, 2017
Exit Legitimacy
Although it is widely appreciated that rights of exit from a legal order can be important and valuable, there currently exists no...
Jul 3, 2017
An International Model for Vicarious Liability in Franchising
Vicarious liability in the franchising context is a fundamental issue, both in the United States and foreign jurisdictions. With no...
Feb 24, 2017
2017 Symposium News Bulletin
On Friday, February 17th, 2017, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law hosted its symposium titled Sovereign Conduct on the Margins...
Feb 9, 2017
Applying the Law of Proportionality to Cyber Conflict: Suggestions for Practitioners
This Note examines the applicability of the law of armed conflict, and particularly the concept of proportionality, to cyber attacks....
Feb 9, 2017
Supernational Law
Should the United States continue to enter into free trade agreements containing sovereign commitments to resolve regulatory disputes...
Feb 9, 2017
Expanding the Boundaries of Boundary Dispute Settlement: International Law and Critical Geography at
This Article identifies a new trend in the adjudication of international boundary disputes and examines it from a historical and...
Feb 9, 2017
Confronting Mexico’s Enforced Disappearance Monsters: How the ICC Can Contribute to the Process of R
In 2015, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances released a report on Mexico, concluding that there is a generalized...
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