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May 14, 2014
Criminal Law Pays: Penal Law’s Contribution to China’s Economic Development
China’s rapid rise to become the second largest economy in the world is nothing short of extraordinary. When economic reforms took off in...
Mar 28, 2014
VJTL recognizes outstanding work
Jacob Stafford won the Masamichi Yamamoto Second Year Editor Award, which is awarded to a 2L member who has made the most significant...
Mar 17, 2014
Blackwater’s New Battlefield: Toward a Regulatory Regime in the United States for Privately Armed Co
Piracy has reemerged with a vengeance in the twenty-first century. Although it is confined primarily to the horn of Africa, piracy poses...
Mar 17, 2014
The International War Against Doping: Limiting the Collateral Damage from Strict Liability
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Anti-Doping Code are largely considered the model for an effective and well-coordinated...
Mar 17, 2014
Legal Phantoms in Cyberspace: The Problematic Status of Information as a Weapon and a Target Under I
Reports of state-sponsored harmful cyber intrusions abound. The prevailing view among academics holds that if the effects or consequences...
Mar 17, 2014
Will the New ICAO–Beijing Instruments Build a Chinese Wall for International Aviation Security?
The last 6 years have seen an unprecedented level of activity in the field of international aviation law, with the adoption of three new...
Mar 17, 2014
Managing the “Republic of NGOs:” Accountability and Legitimation Problems Facing the UN Cluster Sys
This Article critically assesses the crucial but troubled system for the coordination of international humanitarian assistance—the UN...
Mar 17, 2014
Climate Change, Forests, and International Law: REDD’s Descent into Irrelevance
Forestry activities account for over 17 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2005, parties to the United Nations...
Feb 10, 2014
VJTL Announces New Editorial Board
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Feb 3, 2014
Protecting Immigrant Children by Protecting Their Parents
Sarah Grey’s note, Expanding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Protecting Children by Protecting Their Parents, appears in the...
Jan 21, 2014
Arguments over cigarette packaging still smoking
“[W]hile the normative appeal of tobacco control is strong, there is a normative case to be made for getting trademark (and, more...
Jan 8, 2014
Expanding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Protecting Children by Protecting Their Paren
Article 37 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) aims to protect the interests of foreign national children by requiring...
Jan 8, 2014
220 Years Later and the Commonwealth Is Still Imposing Laws on the United States: A Comparative Look
The United States has been combating the bribery of foreign officials for 35 years through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Both...
Jan 8, 2014
Optimal Asylum
The U.S. asylum system is noble but flawed. Scholars have long recognized that asylum is a “scarce” political resource, but U.S. law...
Jan 8, 2014
Geography and Justice: Why Prison Location Matters in U.S. and International Theories of Criminal Pu
This Article is the first to analyze prison location and its relationship to U.S. and international theories of criminal punishment....
Jan 8, 2014
Defending Democracy: A New Understanding of the Party-Banning Phenomenon
Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency among established democracies to battle political extremism by banning extremist parties....
Jan 8, 2014
Plain Packaging and the Interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement
Plain packaging of cigarettes as a way of reducing tobacco consumption and its related health costs and effects raises a number of...
Jan 7, 2014
Ninth Circuit cites VJTL in Sea Shepherd case
Judge Kozinski used Michael Bahar’s article Attaining Optimal Deterrence at Sea: A Legal and Strategic Theory for Naval Anti-Piracy...
Dec 18, 2013
Wuerth: Solicitor’s argument on executive power “unconvincing”
In Samantar, the petitioners have sued a former Somali leader in the U.S. for human rights violations that occurred in Somalia, and the...
Nov 8, 2013
Cognitive Conflicts and the Making of International Law: From Empirical Concord to Conceptual Discor
It has long been claimed that international lawmaking has grown pluralized in the sense that it has allegedly moved away from the...
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