Issues Archive

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The Road to Hell…: The Statistics Proposal as the Final Solution to the Sovereign’s Human Rights Question by Samuel R. Lucas
Provisional Measures Under the African Human Rights System: The African Court’s Order Against Libyra by Dan Juma
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Electronic Health Records: How the United States Can Learn from the French Dossier Médical Personnel by Amanda Grady
Refueling Biofuel Legislation: Incorporating Social Sustainability Principles to Protect Land Rights by Jamie Konopacky
Where is the Right Balance? Exploring the Current Regulations on Nontraditional Three-Dimensional Trademark Registration in the United States, the European Union, Japan and China by Kexin Li

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From Humanitarian Assistance to Professional Education: Fifty Years of the Wisconsin Law School’s Engagement with the Global South by David Trubek
Changing Venue of International Governance and Finance: Exercising Legal Control over the $100 Billion per Year Climate Fund? by Steven Ferrey
The Criminalization of the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Providing a Statutory Regime to Criminalize and Prosecute Nuclear Weapons Proliferators by Patrick McDade
Indirect Refoulement: Challenging Canada’s Participation in the Canada-United States Safe Third Country Agreement by Rachel Gonzalez Settlage
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Spurring Innovation in Uganda: Strategies to Assist Developing Countries in Drafting TRIPS-Compliant Patent Legislation that Fosters University Research and Innovation by Matt Richter

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The Efficiency of the Common Law: The Puzzle of Mixed Legal Families by Nuno Garoupa & Carlos Gómez Ligüerre
SPS-Plus and Bilateral Treaty Network: A “Global” Solution to the Global Food-Safety Problem? by Ching-Fu Lin
Tribunals and Taxation: An Investigation of Arbitration in Recent U.S. Tax Conventions by Maya Ganguly
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Culture’s Ties to the Land: The Belize-Guatemala Border Conflict’s Implications for the Maya Communities in Light of the UN Declaration by Zelena Jones
Guilty Until Proven Innocent, and then, Still Guilty: What the World Anti-Doping Agency Can Learn from the National Football League about First-Time Anti-Doping Violations by Ryan Reszel
Revising the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling: A Proposal to End the Stalemate Within the International Whaling Commission by Tara Jordan

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Terrorism as Violation of the “Law of Nations:” Finally Overcoming the Definitional Problem by Daniel J. Hickman
The Nature of Union Citizenship Between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship – A Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: How to Avoid a European Dred Scott Decision? by Dennis-Jonathan Mann & Kai P. Purnhagen
Exploring the Role of Legitimacy and Identity in Framing Responses to Global Legal Reforms in Socialist Transforming Asia by John Gillespie
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The Modified Mechanism in EU Accession: A Look at Croatia’s Accession Into the EU and the Plight of Croatia’s Roma Population by Nicole Wells
There Must Be Something in the Water: An Exploration of the Rhine and Mississippi River’s Governing Differences and an Argument for Change by Stephanie K. Chase
A Diamond’s Wealth is Forever: Comparing Zimbabwe’s and Botswana’s Diamond Mining Law Reveals Changes that Zimbabwe Should Implement by M. Jonathan Robb Jr

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Varieties Of Legal Dualism: Making Sense of the Role of Law in Contemporary Russia by Kathryn Hendley
Disobeying the Law: The Culture of Non-Compliance with Rules in Latin America by Mauricio García Villegas
“Take Your Rights Then and Sleep Outside, on the Street”: Rights, Fora, and the Significance of Rural South African Women’s Choices by Dr. Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Rights of the Ruled: Legal Activism in Imperial Russia by Jane Burbank
Uprooted Justice: Transformations of Law and Everyday Life in Northern Thailand by David M. Engel
Perceptions of Law and Social Order: A Cross-National Comparison of Collective Legal Consciousness by Marina Kurkchiyan
Trying Democracy in the Shadow of an Authoritarian Legality: Chile’s Transition to Democracy and Pinochet’s Constitution of 1980 by Javier Couso
Law’s Location in China’s Countryside by Professor Margaret Woo

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Ireland and the EU: How Ireland’s Evolving Concerns About Sovereignty May Hold the Fate of the European Union by Chad Zadrazil

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Globalizing Conservation Easements: Private Law Approaches for International Environmental Protection by Gerald Korngold
Toward Harmonization and Certainty in Choice-of-law Rules for International Contracts: Should the U.S. Adopt the Equivalent of Rome I? by Charles R. Calleros
Women’s Inheritance and Conditionality in the Fight Against Aids by Sarah J. Conroy
Reconciling German-style Feed-in Tariffs with Purpa by Bradley Motl
From Brussels to Rome: The Necessity of Resolving Divorce Law Conflicts Across the European Union by Teresa Henderson
Examining the Groningen Protocol: Comparing The Treatment of Terminally-ill Infants in The Netherlands with Treatment given in The United States and England by Darin Achilles

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Images of the Arab World and Middle East—Debates About Development and Regional Integration by Michael Fakhri
A “Supremer” Court?: How An Unfavorable Ruling In The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by Ethan Kate
Boldly Going Where No Realtor Has Gone Before: The Law of Outer Space and A Proposal For A New Interplanetary Property Law System by David Widgerow
The Chrysler Bankruptcy and Reorganization with FIAT: A United States, Rule-Based Regulation Should Control Future Labor Disputes Between the U.S. and Italian Divisions by Joel Jacobson
The Prospect of An International Sex Offender Registry: Why An International System Modeled After United States Sex Offender Laws Is Not An Effective Solution To Stop Child Sexual Abuse by Karne Newburn

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UNOCAL Revisited: On the Difference Between Slavery and Forced Labor in International Law by Lukas Knott
The International Criminal Court, Article 79, and Transitional Justice: The Case for an Independent Trust Fund for Victims by Tom Dannenbaum
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The Multivocal Shari’a in History and Literature by Jennifer Wacek
11 U.S.C. 1506: U.S. Courts Keep a Tight Rein on the Public Policy Exception, But the Potential to Undermine International Cooperation in Insolvency Proceedings Remains by Scott C. Mund
Restore Indigent Health Care in New Orleans Now: A Fundamental Right to Health Care in Louisiana Following the Constitutional Aspirations of South Africa and India by Sai Lui

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Collaboration and Resistance in the Punishment of Torture in Iraq: A Judicial Sentencing Experiment by John Hagan, Gabrielle Ferrales & Guillermina Jasso
Men with Guns by John Riley & Michael Gambone
Using International Law to Promote Millennium Health Targets: A Role for the CEDAW Optional Protocol in Reducing Maternal Mortality by Margaux J. Hall
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Rethinking Islamic Law Arbitration Tribunals: Are They Compatible with Traditional American Notions of Justice? by Mona Rafeeq
Is the Demand Requirement Obsolete? How the United Kingdom Modernized Its Shareholder Derivative Procedure and What the United States Can Learn from It by Kurt A. Goehre
The Role of Courts in Making the Right to Housing a Reality Throughout Europe: Lessons from France and the Netherlands by Kyra Olds