Symposia

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

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

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

The Essay examines how Reisman’s scholarship helps us understand the lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

This series of Features Essays is an extension of YJIL’s 2023 symposium, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.

Burr examines Reisman’s insights on microlegal norms in daily interactions and their link to broader public order issues and macrolegal consequences.

Shi examines the future of the World Trade Organization.

The article examines how the New Haven School of Jurisprudence and Chinese traditional culture aid in realizing the right to development.

Peat and Rose analyze 20 years of data showing how external funding shifts international law research toward interdisciplinary and empirical methods.

Professors Oona Hathaway and John Bowers conduct an empirical analysis of the present state of international legal scholarship and its changes.

Verdier investigates the role of regional international law journals in comparative international law from qualitative and quantitative standards.

Achiume highlights global racial justice implications of sanctions, using TWAIL and LPE perspectives, urging a reset in sanctions debates.

Sanctions enable Global North to coerce Global South. With rising multipolarity, this trend may shift, altering global economic dynamics.

Sanctions and their damage to the Global South by actively undermining economic development systems and resources. 

The antinomies of “peaceful sanctions” as symptomatic of the material basis of the international legal order.

Sustaining the myth of the dichotomy between the domains of war and peace exacerbates the vulnerability of certain states.

Sanctions often serve as a means of waging economic warfare in an era of intensified geopolitical tension. 

The successful failure of the humanitarian critique of economic sanctions as it relates to humanitarian relief provided to Afghans.

Unilateral coercive measures may often create or worsen a protracted crisis and can prove ineffective, inhibiting aid and magnifying harm.

In the current moment of U.S. financial imperialism and economic sanctions, a host of “new” colonizers have emerged, empowering private parties.

How U.S. financial sanctions are both enabled by and exacerbate the unequal integration of the post-colonial world economy.

Economic sanctions, touted as a peaceful alternative to war, have long been controversial in international law and international relations.

Discusses the classification of unilateral coercive measures, identifies their consequences, and highlights their violations of international law. 

Yale Journal of International Law, in collaboration with the LPE Project, presents this 2023 Symposium.

This post introduces the Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions

This symposium addresses migrants’ mixed rationales for leaving home.

This post introduces the symposium “China and the International Legal Order”.

This post introduces the Symposium Conference: International Trade in the Trump Era

This post introduces the symposium International Trade in the Trump Era

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.

“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