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Recent Publications:
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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 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.
Recent Publications:
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- Symposia
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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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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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 Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
This post introduces the Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions
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Symposium: Managing Mixed Migration
This symposium addresses migrants’ mixed rationales for leaving home.
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- YJIL Forum
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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- Features Essays
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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- YJIL Forum
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
