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Recent Publications:
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
Recent Publications:
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- Features Essays
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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- Symposia
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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- Symposia
Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
This post introduces the Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
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- Symposia
Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era
This post introduces the symposium International Trade in the Trump Era
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- YJIL Forum
Reflections on a Potential Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula
The essay examines critical questions for consideration as South Korea, North Korea, and the United States try to move toward a peace treaty
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- YJIL Forum
The ICC and Afghanistan—Time to End Impunity?
This essay surveys the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s charges against the Taliban and their affiliates.
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- Book Review
Book Review by Richard A. Falk: International Law in a Transcivilizational World by ONUMA Yasuaki
Review of International Law in a Transcivilizational World by ONUMA Yasuaki.
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- YJIL Forum
Group and Individual Rights in the Argument for Puerto Rican Accession
This essay examines the distinction between group rights and individual rights in relation to disputes about Puerto Rico’s status.
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- YJIL Forum
Comment on Blocher & Gulati’s “Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession”
This comment builds upon examples included in Blocher and Gulati’s Article using judicial, congressional, and historical precedents.
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- Symposia
Symposium: Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession
YJIL Forum is delighted to present this Symposium featuring four responses to Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati’s Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession.
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- YJIL Forum
On Constitutional Dismemberment
In Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment, Richard Albert endorses four main claims: one conceptual, one descriptive, and two normative.
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- YJIL Forum
Constitutional Amendment and “Fundamendment”: A Response to Professor Richard Albert
I am delighted to offer some brief observations following Professor Richard Albert’s fascinating study of constitutional amendment and dismemberment.
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- YJIL Forum
Rescuing the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine: A Reply to Richard Albert
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.
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- Book Review
Book Review: Is International Law International?
Is International Law International? serves as a welcome study of what international law means in some of the world’s major powers.
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- Book Review
Book Review: International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability
Review of International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability: The Remedies and Reparations Gap by Carla Ferstman.
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- YJIL Forum
Not “Final and Irreversible”: Explaining South Korea’s January 2018 Reversal on the “Comfort Women” Agreement
Approximately two years ago, the Foreign Ministers of South Korea and Japan announced that they had “final[ly] and irreversibl[y]” resolved the issue.
