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Recent Publications:
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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.
Recent Publications:
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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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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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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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- 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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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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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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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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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.
