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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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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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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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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.
Recent Publications:
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- Symposia
Symposium: Brexit and the Law
“Breaking up is Hard to Do,” the song goes, and for graphic proof, we need look no further than the United Kingdom’s June 23, 2016 referendum to leave
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International Law and the Lame-Duck Congress
As the Republican-controlled 114th Congress reconvenes for its lame-duck session, expectations for the session’s productivity are low.
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- YJIL Forum
Call for Modified Transparency in the Korea-Lone Star Funds Arbitration
In June 2016, the final oral argument for the investment dispute between South Korea (Korea) and Lone Star Funds (LSF) took place.
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- YJIL Forum
Is the Trump Administration Bound by the Iran Deal?
Examines the Iran Deal, and whether the Trump Administration could and should withdraw from it.
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The Uncertain Future of the European Investment Court System
Developments concerning the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and their impacts on the European Investment Court System.
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- YJIL Forum
Investment Arbitration: A Poor Forum for the International Fight Against Corruption
An examination of whether investment tribunals are suited to hearing allegations of corruption.
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- YJIL Forum
Hacking the Election
How can the US respond to allegations that the Russian Government was behind the cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee?
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Outsourcing Refoulement: The United States and the Central American Refugee Crisis
This piece addresses the implications of state efforts to displace legal obligations by outsourcing their refugee problems to other states.
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- Features Essays
“Uniting for Peace” in the Age of International Justice
This article examines the relevance of UfP in a new post-Cold War era.
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Exhaustion of Local Remedies in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Re-examining the requirement for foreign investors to exhaust local remedies before bringing investor-state claims.
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MLATs and the Trusted Nation Club: The Proper Cost of Membership
Looking at a new generation of MLATs and MLAT substitutes.
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The Yukos Award and the Debate over the New York Convention
As the Obama Administration defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”)…international arbitration has increasingly come under public scrutiny.
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Rethinking the International Refugee Regime
T. Alexander Aleinikoff rethinks the international refugee law.
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Indian Executive’s Pro-Arbitration Power Move Sanctioned By Parliament: Transnational Ideals Versus National Reality
On October 23, 2015, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee, with input from Prime Minister Modi, signed into law a new Arbitration Ordinance.
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From the Aztecs to the Kalahari Bushmen: Conservative Justices’ Citation of Foreign Sources: Consistency, Inconsistency, or Evolution?
On April 28, 2015, there were few surprises at the Supreme Court.
