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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 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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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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- 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.
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A War Crimes “Wiki”: The Need for an Open Database to Ensure Syrian Accountability
Just over a month ago, a Swedish court became the first court anywhere to convict an individual associated with the Assad regime for war crimes.
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More Privacy Principle: A Reply to Asaf Lubin
In his reply to The Privacy Principle, Asaf Lubin queries whether the right to privacy meets the criteria of a general principle of law.
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- Book Review
Book Review: The Child in International Refugee Law
Human rights give legal expression to our most foundational shared precepts of justice.
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- YJIL Forum
Building a Durable Legal Framework in Space: The Extraterrestrial Impact of the South China Sea Dispute
Just a few weeks ago, tech titan Elon Musk announced his lofty intention to send the first colonists to Mars by 2024.
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- Features Essays
Section 7 of the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010: A “Fair Warning” Perlustration
“Within the past year, the tides of global corruption have begun a perceptible shift. In a growing number of countries …”
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A Principled Defence of the International Human Right to Privacy: A Response to Frédéric Sourgens
Frédéric Sourgens’s recent article, The Privacy Principle, dares to ask a provocative question: can international law regulate global surveillance pro
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The Case of Kim Jong-nam and Questions of International Law
At first glance, an assassination is a straight forward violation of international law.
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A General Look at Specific Jurisdiction
Towards a unified theory of “arising out of” or “related to” jurisdiction where the defendant’s forum conduct contributed to the plaintiff’s claims
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A Closer Look at the Korean Constitutional Court’s Ruling on Park Geun-hye’s Impeachment
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea unanimously approved the National Assembly’s December 2016 vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye.
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President Trump’s Budget Blueprint and U.N. Blue Helmets
On March 16th, President Trump released an initial budget outline for fiscal year (FY) 2018.
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Grey Zones in the International Law of Cyberspace
This Essay identifies certain critical grey zones of international law that are susceptible to exploitation when conducting cyber operations.
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Book Review: Europe’s Justice Deficit?
Speaking in October 2014, László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission, surveyed the damage …
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Understanding War-Sustaining Targeting: A Rejoinder to Iulia Padeanu
Ms. Iulia Padeanu says, “Accepting that War-Sustaining Objects are ‘Legitimate Targets’ under IHL is a Terrible Idea,” but I say shouldn’t we use …
