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Recent Publications:
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Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America and the Impact of Maternal Activism in the Development of International Law
Xilene Díaz Palacio, Carolina Lozano Martínez and Manuel Góngora-Mera: We highlight the mobilization of mothers of the disappeared in Latin America.
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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.
Recent Publications:
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- Features Essays
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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- Features Essays
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.
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Implementing Integrated Deterrence in the Cyber Domain: The Role of Lawyers
Caroline Krass discusses the lawyers’ role in integrated deterrence at the U.S. Cyber Command Legal Conference, noting cybersecurity and compliance.
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- Symposia
Discussant Comments
Achiume highlights global racial justice implications of sanctions, using TWAIL and LPE perspectives, urging a reset in sanctions debates.
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Weapons Against the Weak
Sanctions enable Global North to coerce Global South. With rising multipolarity, this trend may shift, altering global economic dynamics.
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The Antinomies of “Peaceful” Economic Sanctions
The antinomies of “peaceful sanctions” as symptomatic of the material basis of the international legal order.
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The Brutal Impact of Sanctions on the Global South
Sanctions and their damage to the Global South by actively undermining economic development systems and resources.
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The Fog of Peace: Who Profits from Economic Sanctions?
Sustaining the myth of the dichotomy between the domains of war and peace exacerbates the vulnerability of certain states.
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Successful Failures: Economic Sanctions, Humanitarianism, and the Undoing of Post-Colonial Sovereignty
The successful failure of the humanitarian critique of economic sanctions as it relates to humanitarian relief provided to Afghans.
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Economic Sanctions and Humanitarian Principles: Lessons from International Humanitarian Law
Sanctions often serve as a means of waging economic warfare in an era of intensified geopolitical tension.
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Situating Unilateral Coercive Measures Within a Broader Understanding of Systemic Violence
Unilateral coercive measures may often create or worsen a protracted crisis and can prove ineffective, inhibiting aid and magnifying harm.
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Sanctions’ New Colonizers
In the current moment of U.S. financial imperialism and economic sanctions, a host of “new” colonizers have emerged, empowering private parties.
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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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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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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: 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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Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
This post introduces the Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
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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.
