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The Yale Journal of International Law publishes articles, essays, notes, and commentary on a wide range of subjects in the fields of international, transnational, and comparative law on a biannual basis. Its online companion journal, YJIL Online, publishes shorter analytical essays throughout the year. In both its print and online editions, the Journal is committed to publishing cutting-edge, provocative, and thoughtful scholarship at the forefront of the field.

LATEST ONLINE ARTICLES

No Sanctuary for Dictators
Written by Eugene R. Fidell

In 1986, when the then-dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, finally fled, I suggested that the international community needed to learn the important lesson that great violence may occur when a tyrant resists pressure to leave office. “What happens when a dictator finds it hard to leave,” I wrote, “because he has no place to go? One…

in Volume 38 (Spring 2013) Read more...
Gang and Cartel Violence: A Reason To Grant Political Asylum from Mexico and Central America
Written by Jillian N. Blake

In Cary Fukunaga’s 2009 film, Sin Nombre, Central American immigrants ride through the Mexican countryside on top of slow-moving railroad cars with hopes of reaching the United States undetected. Some of the film’s characters are fleeing poverty, but others are running for their lives. These migrants fear persecution from violent, armed gangs in their home countries.…

in Volume 38 (Fall 2012) Read more...
Whither Article XX? Regulatory Autonomy Under Non-GATT Agreements After China—Raw Materials
Written by Danielle Spiegel Feld & Stephanie Switzer

On January 30, 2012 the Appellate Body to the World Trade Organization (WTO) released a decision in China—Measures Relating to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials (Raw Materials) in which it condemned China’s refusal to freely export certain raw materials mined within its territory. Apart from the significant political implications of the decision, the Raw Materials…

in Volume 38 (Fall 2012) Read more...
Blurred Lines: An Argument for a More Robust Legal Framework Governing the CIA Drone Program
Written by Andrew Burt & Alex Wagner

“[Al Qaeda] does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks.” Those are the words of John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor at a September 2011 speech outlining the Obama administration’s legal framework for its counterterrorism efforts. Brennan’s…

in Volume 38 (Fall 2012) Read more...