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Participants in international commercial arbitration have long recognized the need to maintain arbitration as an effective and therefore attractive alternative to litigation, while still ensuring that its use is predicated on the consent of the parties and that the resulting awards command respect.…
International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in US Courts
Written by Oona A. Hathaway, Sabria McElroy & Sara Aronchick Solow
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A deep puzzle lies at the heart of international law. It is “law” binding on the United States, and yet it is not always enforceable in the courts. One of the great challenges for scholars, judges, and practitioners alike has been to make…
Lawmaking by Nonstate Actors: Engaging Armed Groups in the Creation of International Humanitarian Law
Written by Anthea Roberts & Sandesh Sivakumaran
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International law is no longer conceived of as regulating the rights and obligations of states alone, yet any suggestion that nonstate actors could or should play a role in the creation of international law remains highly controversial. States jealously guard their lawmaking powers…
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Jabal al-Tair is an island lying halfway between Yemen and Eritrea, northwest of the Bab al-Mandeb passage at the mouth of the Red Sea. On December 17, 1999, an arbitral tribunal concluded that the island belonged to Yemen, entitling the country to claim…
Comment | Two Competing Models of Activism, One Goal: A Case Study of Anti-Whaling Campaigns in the Southern Ocean
Written by Anthony L.I. Moffa
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In February 2011, in the midst of Japan’s widely-criticized research whale hunt, the Japanese Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano called the whaling fleet home months ahead of plan and hundreds short of its kill quota. The reason given for the abrupt end to the…
Recent Publications
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Reviewed in this issue:
Domestic Violence and International Law. By Bonita Meyersfeld.
International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect. By Anne Orford.
State Responsibility for International Terrorism. By Kimberley N. Trapp.
Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern…
