Lisa Avalos’s article, Female Genital Mutilation and Designer Vaginas in Britain: Crafting an Effective Legal and Policy Framework (48...

2014 Jonathan J. Charney Distinguished Lecture in Public International Law Presented at Vanderbilt University Law School on November 4, 2014

The prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain and Europe has grown in recent years as a result of international migration,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) operates under a regime of complementarity: a domestic state prosecution of a defendant charged...

International criminal courts must not only decide the guilt or innocence of defendants in immensely serious cases, but also make good...

Marriage is a local arrangement with international effects. Throughout the Western world, a marriage recognized as valid by the parties’...

What is the function of freedom for the transnational legal process? This Article answers this question through the lens of the ongoing...

Equity ownership in the United States and Europe is now highly concentrated in the hands of institutional investors, which gives rise to...

The German practice of Richterliche Hinweispflicht is a judicial duty to give hints and feedback. In a very proactive position, the...

The Common Fisheries Policy, enacted in 1983 as the European Union’s primary overfishing regulation scheme, is widely regarded as a...

The United States has a long and complicated history concerning religious rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Burwell...

A rising tide of Islamophobia in the United States has led, in recent years, to state-level efforts to prohibit the application of Sharia...

This Article examines the complex legal situation of Filipina “entertainers” in U.S. military camp towns in South Korea: the individuals...

Users worldwide enjoy digital goods such as music and e-books on a daily basis. They have become a major part of people’s lives, with...

Despite its reputation as a “provision of an exceptional nature,” Regulation 55 has become one of the most contested procedural devices...

India’s commercial surrogacy business has been the focus of intense media scrutiny for the past decade. In that time, it has grown from a...

When one of the three judges hearing the case against Vojislav Šešelj at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was...

This Article analyzes the circumstances under which international human rights treaties have helped or hurt asylum-seekers in the United...

Peace agreements can bring about serious injustices. For example, they may establish oppressive regimes, provide for the transfer of...

The following blog post summarizes Margaux Dastugue‘s note, The Faults in “Fair” Trials: An Evaluation of Regulation 55 at the...