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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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Symposium: Managing Mixed Migration
This symposium addresses migrants’ mixed rationales for leaving home.
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The International Law of Rabble Rousing
This Essay offers an account of rabble-rousing as a novel information warfare operation.
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Interest Rates and Human Rights: Reinterpreting Risk Premiums to Adjust the Financial Economy*
This Article proposes an innovative human rights-based interpretation of interest rates applied to public and private loans. Available to download.
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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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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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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.
Recent Publications:
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Outsourcing Refoulement: The United States and the Central American Refugee Crisis
This piece addresses the implications of state efforts to displace legal obligations by outsourcing their refugee problems to other states.
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- Features Essays
“Uniting for Peace” in the Age of International Justice
This article examines the relevance of UfP in a new post-Cold War era.
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- Features Essays
MLATs and the Trusted Nation Club: The Proper Cost of Membership
Looking at a new generation of MLATs and MLAT substitutes.
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- Features Essays
Exhaustion of Local Remedies in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Re-examining the requirement for foreign investors to exhaust local remedies before bringing investor-state claims.
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- Features Essays
Rethinking the International Refugee Regime
T. Alexander Aleinikoff rethinks the international refugee law.
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- Features Essays
The Yukos Award and the Debate over the New York Convention
As the Obama Administration defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”)…international arbitration has increasingly come under public scrutiny.
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Indian Executive’s Pro-Arbitration Power Move Sanctioned By Parliament: Transnational Ideals Versus National Reality
On October 23, 2015, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee, with input from Prime Minister Modi, signed into law a new Arbitration Ordinance.
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From the Aztecs to the Kalahari Bushmen: Conservative Justices’ Citation of Foreign Sources: Consistency, Inconsistency, or Evolution?
On April 28, 2015, there were few surprises at the Supreme Court.
