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Congratulations to Alyssa Bell, the winner of our first annual Human Rights Student Scholars Writing Competition. Details about the winner, as well as her essay title, can be found here.

Congratulations to our new Managing Board members!

Professor Christopher Bruner's Article from 50:3 wins the Association of American Law Schools 2010 Scholarly Papers Competition.

Professor Sean Watts' Article from 50:2 receives the American Society for International Law 2010 Francis Lieber Military Prize.

Opinio Juris


Authors from Vol. 50:3 to Continue the Scholarly Debate Online with Blog Posts at Opinio Juris 50 No.3

See the 50:2 symposium at Opinio Juris 50 No.2

See the 50:1 symposium at Opinio Juris 50 No.1

See the 49:4 symposium at Opinio Juris 49 No.4

See the 49:3 symposium at Opinio Juris 49 No.3

Volume 50 No. 4

50th Anniversary Commemorative Pieces

Letter from Rashida Manjoo: Due Diligence Obligations and Violence Against Women
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Military Necessity and Humanity in International Humanitarian Law: Preserving the Delicate Balance
Michael N. Schmitt
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Articles

Freeze-Outs: Transcontinental Analysis and Reform Proposals
Marco Ventoruzzo
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Inching Toward EU Supranationalism? Qualified Majority Voting and Unanimity Under the Treaty of Lisbon
Stephen C. Sieberson
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Essay

The Curious Legal Landscape of the Extraterritoriality of U.S. Environmental Laws
Jonathan Remy Nash
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Note

The Tragedy of Comity: Questioning the American Treatment of Inadequate Foreign Courts
Virginia A. Fitt
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Volume 50 No. 3

50th Anniversary Commemorative Pieces

Letter from John B. Bellinger, III
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Somalia: State Failure, Piracy, and the Challenge to International Law
Mario Silva
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Articles

Power and Purpose in the “Anglo-American” Corporation
Christopher M. Bruner
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Incorporative Statutes and the Borrowed Treaty Rule
John F. Coyle
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Pharmaceuticals and the European Union: Managing Gray Markets in an Uncertain Legal Environment
Robert C. Bird & Peggy E. Chaudhry
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Note

Vitamin “C” is for Compulsion: Delimiting the Foreign Sovereign Compulsion Defense
Jane Lee
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Volume 50 No. 2

50th Anniversary Commemorative Pieces

Letter from Stephen M. Schwebel
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Perspectives on International Criminal Justice
M. Cherif Bassiouni
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Articles

International Agreements, Internal Heterogeneity, and Climate Change: The “Two Chinas” Problem
Daniel Abebe & Jonathan S. Masur
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Combatant Status and Computer Network Attack
Sean Watts
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Labor Rights as Human Rights?
Kevin Kolben
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Essay

Medellín, the Alien Tort Statute, and the Domestic Status of International Law
David H. Moore
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Note

Clarifying Grease: Mitigating the Threat of Overdeterrence by Defining the Scope of the Routine Governmental Action Exception
Charles B. Weinograd
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Volume 50 No. 1

50th Anniversary Commemorative Pieces

Editor’s Note
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Letter from Dean Paul Mahoney
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A Traveler from an Antique Land: The Modern Renaissance of Comparative Constitutionalism
A.E. Dick Howard
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Articles

Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform, and Economic Development
Alvaro Santos
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Complementarity in Crisis: Uganda, Alternative Justice, and the International Criminal Court
Alexander K.A. Greenawalt
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Essay

Climate Change and Human Rights Law
John H. Knox
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Note

Gay Rights in Uganda: Seeking to Overturn Uganda’s Anti-Sodomy Laws
Michael Hollander
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Volume 49 No. 4

Articles

Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Quagmire or Firm Ground? A Response to James Hathaway
Anne T. Gallagher
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The Best Tool for the Job: The U.S. Campaign to Freeze Assets of Proliferators and their Supporters
CarrieLyn Donigan Guymon
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Outlawing Amnesty: The Return of Criminal Justice in Transitional Justice Schemes
Lisa J. Laplante
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Essays

The Inevitable Globalization of Constitutional Law
Mark Tushnet
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The Case for Climate Protection Authority
Nigel Purvis
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Note

Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime: Compulsory Licensing Schemes under the WTO Doha Declaration
George Tsai
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Volume 49 No. 3

Articles

“Political” Commitments and the Constitution
Duncan B. Hollis & Joshua J. Newcomer
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Is Climate Change “International”? Litigation’s Diagonal Regulatory Role
Hari M. Osofsky
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Taiwan’s New Adversarial System and the Overlooked Challenge of Efficiency-Driven Reforms
Margaret K. Lewis
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Note

Grocery Store Activism: A WTO Compliant Means to Incentivize Social Responsibility
Jessica Karbowski
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Volume 49 No. 2

Articles

Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice
Vlad Perju
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Against Antitrust Functionalism: Reconsidering China’s Antimonopoly Law
Salil K. Mehra & Meng Yanbei
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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Social Arrears: Should Debts to Citizens be Treated Differently than Debts to Other Creditors?
Patrick J. Keenan
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Note

Seizing Weapons of Mass Destruction from Foreign-Flagged Ships on the High Seas Under Article 51 of the UN Charter
Matthew Allen Fitzgerald
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Volume 49 No. 1

Articles

The Human Rights Quagmire of “Human Trafficking”
James C. Hathaway
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The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs
Roger P. Alford
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What’s at Stake in the Sovereignty Debate?: International Tax and the Nation-State
Diane M. Ring
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Notes

A Genocide by Any Other Name: Language, Law, and the Response to Darfur
Mai-Linh Hong
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Assumption of Risk in United States Refugee Law
Ian Atkinson
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Volume 48 No. 4

Articles

“They say I am not an American…”: The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire
Christina Duffy Burnett
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Legal Positivism, Constructivism, and International Human Rights Law: The Case of Participatory Development
Martin V. Totaro
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Essay

Empiricism and International Law: Insights
Susan D. Franck
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Note

Taking Account of Reality: Adopting Contextual Standards for Developing Countries in International Investment Law
Emily A. Alexander
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Volume 48 No. 3

Articles

Vile Crime or Inalienable Right: Defining Incitement to Genocide
Susan Benesch
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Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials
Jenia Iontcheva Turner
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A Convenient Untruth: Fact and Fantasy in the Doctrine of Odious Debt
Sarah Ludington & Mitu Gulati
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Reflections on A Convenient Untruth
A. Mark Weisburd
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Address

Terrorism and the Rule of Law: A European Perspective
Rory Brady
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