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Apr 11, 2013
First Amendment and “Foreign-Controlled” U.S. Corporations: Why Congress Ought to Affirm Domestic
Political spending in the modern-day, prolonged election cycle continues to exceed historic proportions. With money equated to speech,...
Apr 11, 2013
Hate Speech and Persecution: A Contextual Approach
Scholarly work on atrocity-speech law has focused almost exclusively on incitement to genocide. But case law has established liability...
Apr 11, 2013
Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction
Statelessness exists in the United States—a fact that should be of concern to advocates of strict immigration control as well as those...
Apr 11, 2013
Lexis Nexus Complexus: Comparative Contract Law and International Accounting Collide in the IASB–FA
U.S. and international accounting-standard setters plan to launch a new, global revenue accounting standard, Revenue from Contracts with...
Apr 11, 2013
Beyond Regulation: A Comparative Look at State-Centric Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law i
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often understood as the voluntary actions firms take beyond legal compliance. However, in recent...
Feb 12, 2013
The Point of a Points System: Attracting Highly Skilled Immigrants the United States Needs and Ensur
In a globalizing world, labor is an increasingly mobile and competitive resource. Responding to this changing labor market, countries...
Feb 12, 2013
Liberalizing the Law in the Land of the Lord: Limits to the Americanization of Israeli Religious Jur
This Note presents an analysis of American and Israeli constitutional jurisprudence concerning matters of religion. Recently, there has...
Feb 12, 2013
Returning Sovereignty to the People
Governments across the world regularly invoke sovereignty to demand that the international community “mind its own business” while they...
Feb 12, 2013
Jurisdictional Standards (and Rules)
This Article uses the jurisprudential dichotomy between two opposing types of legal requirements—“rules” and “standards”—to examine...
Feb 12, 2013
“Gray Zone” Constitutionalism and the Dilemma of Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Many countries exist in a “gray zone” between authoritarianism and democracy. For countries in this conceptual space—which is...
Nov 28, 2012
A Chink in the Armor: How a Uniform Approach to Proportionality Analysis Can End the Use of Human Sh
The appropriate response to human shields is a recurring issue in modern warfare. Technological asymmetry, disparate obligations, and...
Nov 28, 2012
The Grass Is Always Greener: Keystone XL, Transboundary Harms, and Guidelines for Cooperative Envir
While general understanding of environmental harms has become more geographically sophisticated, environmental-impact assessment (EIA)...
Nov 28, 2012
Dynamics of Healthcare Reform: Bitter Pills Old and New
The United States is at a crossroads—albeit one it has visited several times before. Although the Supreme Court has ruled upon the...
Nov 28, 2012
Judicial Review of Constitutional Transitions: War and Peace and Other Sundry Matters
Constitutional transition periods present a twilight time between two executives. At such times, the outgoing executive’s authority is...
Nov 28, 2012
Virtual Witness Confrontation in Criminal Cases: A Proposal to Use Videoconferencing Technology in M
Maritime piracy is a serious problem, yet states are not prosecuting captured pirates with any regularity. One of the many reasons cited...
Nov 2, 2012
Reconsidering the U.S. Patent System: Lessons from Generics
Scholars and pharmaceutical industry representatives consider the United States a worldwide leader in pharmaceutical innovation. However,...
Nov 2, 2012
Imagining the Homeland from Afar: Community and Peoplehood in the Age of the Diaspora
Diasporas—understood as groups of individuals or communities who carry an image of a homeland that is separate from the host land in...
Nov 2, 2012
Microinvestment Disputes
Salini v. Morocco sparked one of the liveliest controversies in the dynamic field of international investment disputes. Salini held that...
Nov 2, 2012
Recovering Protection and Security: The Treaty Standard’s Obscure Origins, Forgotten Meaning, and Ke
Among the most persistent controversies in international investment law is the nature of the “protection and security” standard found in...
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