Recent Publications

• Is the Trump Administration Bound by the Iran Deal?

  December 1, 2016

  Examines the Iran Deal, and whether the Trump Administration could and should withdraw from it. 

  

• An Update on the Malaysian 1MDB Case

  December 1, 2016

  An Update on the Malaysian 1MDB Case.

  

• Hacking the Election

  October 28, 2016

  How can the US respond to allegations that the Russian Government was behind the cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee?

  

• Outsourcing Refoulement: The United States and the Central American Refugee Crisis

  October 24, 2016

  This piece addresses the implications of state efforts to displace legal obligations by outsourcing their refugee problems to other states.

  

• “Uniting for Peace” in the Age of International Justice

  September 27, 2016

  This article examines the relevance of UfP in a new post-Cold War era. 

  

• Exhaustion of Local Remedies in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

  September 7, 2016

  Re-examining the requirement for foreign investors to exhaust local remedies before bringing investor-state claims.

  

• MLATs and the Trusted Nation Club: The Proper Cost of Membership

  September 7, 2016

  Looking at a new generation of MLATs and MLAT substitutes.

  

• Rethinking the International Refugee Regime

  September 2, 2016

  T. Alexander Aleinikoff rethinks the international refugee law. 

  

• Indian Executive’s Pro-Arbitration Power Move Sanctioned By Parliament: Transnational Ideals Versus National Reality

  September 2, 2016

  On October 23, 2015, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee, with input from Prime Minister Modi, signed into law a new Arbitration Ordinance.

  

• The Yukos Award and the Debate over the New York Convention

  September 2, 2016

  As the Obama Administration defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”)…international arbitration has increasingly come under public scrutiny.