Existing legal scholarship does not offer an effective or comprehensive definition of sovereignty. Sovereignty, however, matters. Indeed,...

Seasteading––homesteading of the modern era––is a desire to develop above-water settlements in international waters known as seasteads....

Governments across the world regularly invoke sovereignty to demand that the international community “mind its own business” while they...

State failure poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security.  The collapse of governing institutions breeds civil...

Mexico and the United States exercise sovereignty that is increasingly transnational and less absolute with respect to migration.  This...

State natural resource development projects have become sites of intense political, social, and cultural contestation among a diversity...