Dec 13, 2016A New Model of Sovereignty in the Contemporary Era of Integrated Global Commerce: What Anthropology Existing legal scholarship does not offer an effective or comprehensive definition of sovereignty. Sovereignty, however, matters. Indeed,...
May 29, 2013Is Seasteading the High Seas a Legal Possibility? Filling the Gaps in International Sovereignty Law Seasteading––homesteading of the modern era––is a desire to develop above-water settlements in international waters known as seasteads....
Feb 12, 2013Returning Sovereignty to the PeopleGovernments across the world regularly invoke sovereignty to demand that the international community “mind its own business” while they...
Jul 24, 2012Neotrusteeship or Mistrusteeship? The “Authority Creep” Dilemma in United Nations Transitional AdminState failure poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. The collapse of governing institutions breeds civil...
Jul 10, 2012Sovereignty Migrates in U.S. and Mexican Law: Transnational Influences in Plenary Power and Non-IntMexico and the United States exercise sovereignty that is increasingly transnational and less absolute with respect to migration. This...
Jun 6, 2012The Role of International Law in Intrastate Natural Resource Allocation: Sovereignty, Human Rights, State natural resource development projects have become sites of intense political, social, and cultural contestation among a diversity...