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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...
Jun 1, 2017
May 2018 Issue on the Second Israel Defense Forces International Conference on Law of Armed Conflict
The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is excited to announce big plans for our May 2018 issue. This upcoming issue will be devoted...
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...
Feb 9, 2017
Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey
Though India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 domestic mobile device vendors, it has,...
Feb 2, 2017
2017-2018 Board of Editors
The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is pleased to announce the 2017-2018 Board of Editors: Masthead
Jan 31, 2017
Sovereign Conduct on the Margins of the Law, a Symposium
Issues surrounding sovereignty have received increasing attention over the last few years, most recently in Congress’s decision regarding...
Jan 19, 2017
Mystery Date: Advocating for a Harmonized System of Expiration Date Labeling of Food
Americans throw out roughly 25 percent of the food they bring home. Negative perceptions associated with expiration dates are a leading...
Jan 19, 2017
Up in the Cloud: Finding Common Ground in Providing for Law Enforcement Access to Data Held by Cloud
Cloud computing is an everyday part of the modern world; a technology that is increasingly transcending international borders....
Jan 19, 2017
Protecting Cultural Heritage as a Means for International Peace, Security and Stability: The Case of
Cultural aggression has become a strategy to obtain an advantage during war. In a deliberate and methodical pattern extremists have not...
Jan 19, 2017
Sharing and the City
The sharing of public infrastructure, the exchange of small services, and the traditional “cup of sugar borrowed from the neighbor” are...
Jan 19, 2017
Why China Established the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
On January 16, 2016, China officially opened the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for business, representing what might be a...
Jan 19, 2017
A Post-Millennial Inquiry into the United Nations Law of Self-Determination: A Right to Unilateral N
The present Article inquires whether a right to unilateral non-colonial (UNC) secession is grounded in the United Nations (UN) law of...
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