Recent Publications

• Symposium: Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment

  February 26, 2018
  

• On Constitutional Dismemberment

  February 26, 2018

  In Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment, Richard Albert endorses four main claims: one conceptual, one descriptive, and two normative.

  

• Rescuing the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine: A Reply to Richard Albert

  February 26, 2018

  My major aim here is to rescue the UCA doctrine from Albert’s attack, and to argue that it is a significant tool in a world with his concerns.

  

• Constitutional Amendment and “Fundamendment”: A Response to Professor Richard Albert

  February 26, 2018

  I am delighted to offer some brief observations following Professor Richard Albert’s fascinating study of constitutional amendment and dismemberment.

  

• Book Review: International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability

  February 21, 2018

  Review of International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability: The Remedies and Reparations Gap by Carla Ferstman. 

  

• Book Review: Is International Law International?

  February 21, 2018

  Is International Law International? serves as a welcome study of what international law means in some of the world’s major powers.

  

• Not “Final and Irreversible”: Explaining South Korea’s January 2018 Reversal on the “Comfort Women” Agreement

  February 1, 2018

  Approximately two years ago, the Foreign Ministers of South Korea and Japan announced that they had “final[ly] and irreversibl[y]” resolved the issue.

  

• A War Crimes “Wiki”: The Need for an Open Database to Ensure Syrian Accountability

  December 4, 2017

  Just over a month ago, a Swedish court became the first court anywhere to convict an individual associated with the Assad regime for war crimes. 

  

• More Privacy Principle: A Reply to Asaf Lubin

  November 29, 2017

  In his reply to The Privacy Principle, Asaf Lubin queries whether the right to privacy meets the criteria of a general principle of law.

  

• Book Review: The Child in International Refugee Law

  November 28, 2017

  Human rights give legal expression to our most foundational shared precepts of justice.