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Recent Publications:
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Third World Approaches to International Law & Economic Sanctions
This series of Features Essays is an extension of YJIL’s 2023 symposium, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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The Right to Development
The article examines how the New Haven School of Jurisprudence and Chinese traditional culture aid in realizing the right to development.
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The Quest for the Future of the WTO: From the Perspective of World Order
Shi examines the future of the World Trade Organization.
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The Prescient W. Michael Reisman
Burr examines Reisman’s insights on microlegal norms in daily interactions and their link to broader public order issues and macrolegal consequences.
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The Changing Landscape of International Law Scholarship: Do Funding Bodies Influence What We Research?
Peat and Rose analyze 20 years of data showing how external funding shifts international law research toward interdisciplinary and empirical methods.
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International Law Scholarship: An Empirical Study
Professors Oona Hathaway and John Bowers conduct an empirical analysis of the present state of international legal scholarship and its changes.
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Comparative International Law and the Rise of Regional Journals
Verdier investigates the role of regional international law journals in comparative international law from qualitative and quantitative standards.
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A Targeted Killing in Canada?
Canada and India’s dispute over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar raises complex international legal issues involving sovereignty and human rights.
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Unilateral Sanctions Under International Human Rights Law: Correcting the Record
Fellmeth argues that UN Special Rapporteur Douhan’s report on sanctions is flawed in evidence, interpretation, and application of international law.
Recent Publications:
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- Symposia
The Opacity of Economic Coercion
How U.S. financial sanctions are both enabled by and exacerbate the unequal integration of the post-colonial world economy.
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- Symposia
Unilateral Coercive Measures: Effects and Legality Issues
Discusses the classification of unilateral coercive measures, identifies their consequences, and highlights their violations of international law.
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Symposium: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions
Yale Journal of International Law, in collaboration with the LPE Project, presents this 2023 Symposium.
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Economic Sanctions: Where Law and Political Economy Meets Third World Approaches to International Law
Economic sanctions, touted as a peaceful alternative to war, have long been controversial in international law and international relations.
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Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
This post introduces the Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
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Symposium: Managing Mixed Migration
This symposium addresses migrants’ mixed rationales for leaving home.
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- YJIL Forum
The Trump Administration, Asylum Law, and Private-Actor Persecution
This essays examines the practices of the Trump administration through the lense of Asylum law.
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- Features Essays
The International Law of Rabble Rousing
This Essay offers an account of rabble-rousing as a novel information warfare operation.
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- Features Essays
Interest Rates and Human Rights: Reinterpreting Risk Premiums to Adjust the Financial Economy*
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- YJIL Forum
COVID-19: Towards a Digital Fragmentation of the Right to Education?
The essay argues that the trend towards digital learning entails a platformization of education, engendering several new problems.
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Introduction to the “China and the International Legal Order” Joint Symposium Issues
This post introduces the symposium “China and the International Legal Order”.
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Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
This post introduces the Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
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Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
This post introduces the symposium International Trade in the Trump Era
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- YJIL Forum
Reflections on a Potential Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula
The essay examines critical questions for consideration as South Korea, North Korea, and the United States try to move toward a peace treaty
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- YJIL Forum
The ICC and Afghanistan—Time to End Impunity?
This essay surveys the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s charges against the Taliban and their affiliates.
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- Book Review
Book Review by Richard A. Falk: International Law in a Transcivilizational World by ONUMA Yasuaki
Review of International Law in a Transcivilizational World by ONUMA Yasuaki.
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Symposium: Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession
YJIL Forum is delighted to present this Symposium featuring four responses to Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati’s Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession.
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- YJIL Forum
Group and Individual Rights in the Argument for Puerto Rican Accession
This essay examines the distinction between group rights and individual rights in relation to disputes about Puerto Rico’s status.
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- YJIL Forum
Comment on Blocher & Gulati’s “Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession”
This comment builds upon examples included in Blocher and Gulati’s Article using judicial, congressional, and historical precedents.
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