Recent Publications

• The Yale Journal of International Law Fall 2024 Symposium: International Law and Women's Rights

  January 27, 2025

  The Fall 2024 Symposium took place on October 24, 2024.

  

• Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America and the Impact of Maternal Activism in the Development of International Law

  January 26, 2025

  This Essay aims to highlight the mobilization of a particular group of Latin American women: mothers searching for disappeared persons.

  

• International Legal Mechanisms to Safeguard Women's Rights: An Analysis of Afghan Women’s Rights Under Taliban Rule

  January 26, 2025

  The ongoing gender apartheid under the Taliban regime may undermine the effectiveness of international law in safeguarding women’s rights.

  

• Feminist Treaty Interpretation in International Law

  January 26, 2025

  The customary rules on treaty interpretation afford sufficient discretion for interpreters to engage in a feminism-informed interpretative outcome.

  

• Addressing Femicide Through International Criminal Law: The Need for a Binding Legal Framework

  January 26, 2025

  Considering the pervasiveness and devastating impact of femicide on women’s rights, it is imperative for international law to explicitly recognize it.

  

• The Yale School of International Law

  September 22, 2024

  In this Essay, Harold Hongju Koh discusses the Yale School of International Law and its focus in the next phase of the twenty-first century.

  

• The Reciprocity Dialectic in Transnational Corruption: The Relative Responsibility of Private and Public Actors Under International Law 

  September 20, 2024

  The Essay explores the bilateral character of transnational corruption and the need to hold both public and private actors responsible. 

  

• On the Legality of Prosecuting State-Owned Enterprises: Halkbank v. United States

  September 15, 2024

  In this Features Essay, the authors discuss the legality of prosecuting foreign state-owned enterprises under international law.

  

• Comity and the Criminal Law: Reflections on Prosecutorial Legitimacy in Reisman’s World Public Order

  September 3, 2024

  The Essay evaluates the question of whether states should use criminal law enforcement as a tool of international affairs. 

  

• Two Approaches to Economic Coercion

  August 9, 2024

  Jacob Katz Cogan explores regulatory and abolitionist approaches to economic coercion.