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Recent Publications:
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The Production of "Made in Italy" in Areas Affected by Natural Disasters: Some Critical Remarks
Exploring how Italy’s fashion sector, rooted in micro enterprises, struggles and adapts to natural disasters and COVID-19 in the Marche region.
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The Treatment of Mixed Purposes in International Agreements
Treaty interpretations often struggle with mixed-purpose state actions. Clearer treaty standards can improve adjudication consistency.
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From the Hague to National Courts: Can Domestic Universal Jurisdiction Deliver Where the ICC Cannot?
Can domestic “universal jurisdiction” (UJ) cases represent a viable alternative to ICC prosecution when the ICC cannot deliver justice?
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Losing Sight of Judicial Independence: The Case of Mexico’s Judicial Reform
Gustavo López Nachón: Mexico’s latest judicial reform cloaks authoritarian intent in democratic garb, threatening the rule of law.
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Book Review - The New Haven School: American International Law
Samira Mathias: A legal school aimed at dignity, used to justify power—this review unpacks the paradox of American international law.
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The Yale Journal of International Law Fall 2024 Symposium: International Law and Women’s Rights
The Fall 2024 Symposium took place on October 24, 2024.
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International Legal Mechanisms to Safeguard Women’s Rights: An Analysis of Afghan Women’s Rights Under Taliban Rule
Roqia Samim: The ongoing gender apartheid under the Taliban regime undermines the effectiveness of international law in safeguarding women’s rights.
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Feminist Treaty Interpretation in International Law
Sissy Katsoni: Customary rules on treaty interpretation afford interpreters enough discretion to engage in feminism-informed interpretative outcomes.
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Addressing Femicide Through International Criminal Law: The Need for a Binding Legal Framework
Alessia Nicastro: Considering the devastating impact of femicide on women’s rights, it is imperative for international law to explicitly recognize it.
Recent Publications:
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Feminist Treaty Interpretation in International Law
Sissy Katsoni: Customary rules on treaty interpretation afford interpreters enough discretion to engage in feminism-informed interpretative outcomes.
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The Yale School of International Law
In this Essay, Harold Hongju Koh discusses the Yale School of International Law and its focus in the next phase of the twenty-first century.
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The Reciprocity Dialectic in Transnational Corruption: The Relative Responsibility of Private and Public Actors Under International Law
The Essay explores the bilateral character of transnational corruption and the need to hold both public and private actors responsible.
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On the Legality of Prosecuting State-Owned Enterprises: Halkbank v. United States
In this Features Essay, the authors discuss the legality of prosecuting foreign state-owned enterprises under international law.
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Comity and the Criminal Law: Reflections on Prosecutorial Legitimacy in Reisman’s World Public Order
The Essay evaluates the question of whether states should use criminal law enforcement as a tool of international affairs.
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Two Approaches to Economic Coercion
Jacob Katz Cogan explores regulatory and abolitionist approaches to economic coercion.
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Reisman’s Rules: Placing Intelligence and Collective Security in Context Two Years After Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
The Essay examines how Reisman’s scholarship helps us understand the lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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“Humanizing” Economic Sanctions? Lessons from International Humanitarian Law
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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Weapons Against the Weak: International Law and the Political Economy of Coercion
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony, and the Unraveling of Third World Sovereignty
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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Sanctions and “Bio-Necro Collaboration”
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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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 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 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 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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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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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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