New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 52, no. 5, November 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The Future of International Human Rights Law
• Samuel Moyn, On Human Rights and Majority Politics
• John Tasioulas, Saving Human Rights from Human Rights Law
• Karima Bennoune, In Defense on Human Rights
• James Thuo Gathii, Beyond Samuel Moyn’s Countermajoritarian Difficulty as a Model of Global Judicial Review
• Lorna McGregor, Looking to the Future: The Scope, Value and Operationalization of International Human Rights Law
• Kathryn Sikkink, Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Democracy
• Gopal Sreenivasan, Whither and Whether with the Formative Aim Thesis

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 52, no. 4, October 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Paul C. Ney, Jr., Charney Lecture - The Rule of Law in International Security Affairs: A U.S. Defense Department Perspective
• Manal Totry-Jubran, Transitional Justice in Housing Injustice: Housing Rights Violations Within Settler Democracies
• Kevin Kolben, The Consumer Imaginary: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Citizen-Consumers in the Global Supply Chain
• Ji Ma, International Investment and National Security Review
• Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Emerging Market Economies & International Investment Law:Turkey–Africa Bilateral Investment Treaties

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 52, no. 3, May 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Antonia Eliason, Using the WTO to Facilitate the Paris Agreement: A Tripartite Approach
• Arlene S. Kanter, Do Human Rights Treaties Matter: The Case for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
• Alexandra V. Orlova, The Soft Power of Dissent: The Impact of Dissenting Opinions from the Russian Constitutional Court
• Imogen Saunders, Artificial Islands and Territory in International Law

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 52, no. 2, March 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Steven A. Bank, Reforming FIFA from the Inside Out
• John F. Coyle & Christopher R. Drahozal, An Empirical Study of Dispute Resolution Clauses in International Supply Contracts
• Craig Martin, Challenging and Refining the "Unwilling or Unable" Doctrine
• Neha Mishra, Building Bridges: International Trade Law, Internet Governance, and the Regulation of Data Flows

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 52, no. 1, January 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel C.K. Chow & Ian Sheldon, Is Strict Reciprocity Required for Fair Trade?
• Cóman Kenny & Nikita Malik, Trafficking Terror and Sexual Violence: Accountability for Human Trafficking and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence By Terrorist Groups under the Rome Statute
• King Fung Tsang, International Multiple Derivative Actions
• Youri van Logchem, The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas: What Lessons Can Be Learned from the Maritime Boundary Dispute between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire?

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, no. 5, November 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Reconciling Transnational Jurisdiction: A Comparative Approach to Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporate Defendants in US Courts
• Weixia Gu, China’s Belt and Road Development and A New International Commercial Arbitration Initiative in Asia
• Kubo Mačák & Michael N. Schmitt, “Enemy-Controlled Battlespace”: The Contemporary Meaning and Purpose of Additional Protocol I’s Article 44(3) Exception
• Nema Milaninia, Understanding Serious Bodily or Mental Harm as an Act of Genocide

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, no. 4, October 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Shahla F. Ali, Practitioners’ Perception of Court-Connected Mediation in Five Regions: An Empirical Study
• Maria L. Banda, Climate Adaptation Law: Governing Multi-Level Public Goods Across Borders
• Shai Dothan, When Immediate Responses Fail
• Amanda Bloch Kernan, Sustaining the Growth of Mobile Money Services in Developing Nations: Lessons from Overregulation in the United States

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, no. 3, May 2018) is out. Contents include:

• The Law and Armed Conflict
• Sharon Afek, We’re Not in Beersheba Anymore: Discussing Contemporary Challenges in the Law of Armed Conflict with 120 International Lawyers
• Yoram Dinstein, Keynote Address: The Recent Evolution of the International Law of Armed Conflict: Confusions, Constraints, and Challenges
• Knut Dormann, The Role of Nonstate Entities in Developing and Promoting International Humanitarian Law
• Michael Wood, The Evolution and Identification of the Customary International Law of Armed Conflict
• Nitsan Alon, Operational Challenges in Ground Operations in Urban Areas: An IDF Perspective
• Geoffrey S. Corn, Humanitarian Regulation of Hostilities: The Decisive Element of Context
• Michael W. Meier & James T. Hill, Targeting, the Law of War, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice
• Noam Neuman, Challenges in the Interpretation and Application of the Principle of Distinction During Ground Operations in Urban Areas
• Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, Some Reflections on the “Incidental Harm” Side of Proportionality Assessments
• Ian Henderson & Kate Reece, Proportionality under International Humanitarian Law: The “Reasonable Military Commander” Standard and Reverberating Effects
• Roni Katzir, Four Comments on the Application of Proportionality under the Law of Armed Conflict
• Michael A. Newton, Reframing the Proportionality Principle
• Gloria Gaggioli, Targeting Individuals Belonging to an Armed Group
• Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Targeting of Persons: The Contemporary Challenges
• R. Patrick Huston, A Practical Perspective on Attacking Armed Groups
• Agnieszka Jachec-Neale, Targeting State and Political Leadership in Armed Conflicts
• Eran Shamir-Borer, Fight, Forge, and Fund: Three Select Issues on Targeting of Person

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, no. 2, March 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Tendayi Achiume, Governing Xenophobia
• Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo, “Development” Versus “Sustainable Development”?: (Re-) Constructing the International Bank for Sustainable Development
• Matiangai Sirleaf, Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Structural Violence & International Responsibility

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 51, no. 1, January 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Francesco Ducci, Cartel Criminalization in Europe: Addressing Deterrence and Institutional Challenges
• George K. Foster, Community Participation in Development
• Samuli Seppänen, Chinese Legal Development Assistance: Which Rule of Law? Whose Pragmatism?
• Barbara Stark, When Genealogy Matters: Intercountry Adoption, International Human Rights, and Global Neoliberalism

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 50, no. 5, November 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Arthur J. Cockfield, How Countries Should Share Tax Information
• Jonathan Hafetz, Fairness, Legitimacy, and Selection Decisions in International Criminal Law
• Amnon Lehavi, Globalizing Property Law: An Institutional Analysis
• Stephen Townley, Indiscriminate Attacks and the Past, Present, and Future of the Rules/Standards and Objective/Subjective Debates in International Humanitarian Law

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 50, no. 4, October 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Larry Catá Backer, The Human Rights Obligations of State-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structures and Principles in National and International Law and Policy
• Eric Blinderman & Myra Din, Hidden by Sovereign Shadows: Improving the Domestic Framework for Deterring State-Sponsored Cybercrime
• Magnus Hörnqvist,·Sovereign Display and Fiscal Techniques: Some Notes on Recent Strategies to Counteract Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Nicholas Calcina Howson, China’s “Corporatization without Privatization” and the Late Nineteenth Century Roots of a Stubborn Path Dependency
• Rainer Hülsse, The Money Mule: Its Discursive Construction and the Implications
• Stephen Kim Park & Tim R. Samples, Tribunalizing Sovereign Debt: Argentina’s Experience with Investor–State Dispute Settlement
• Pammela S. Quinn, “Head-of-State–Owned Enterprise” Immunity

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 50, no. 3, May 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Sandra Marco Colino, The Perks of Being a Whistleblower: Designing Efficient Leniency Programs in New Antitrust Jurisdictions
• Tanya J. Monestier, You're It! Tag Jurisdiction over Corporations in Canada
• Gregory M. Stein, What Will China Do When Land Use Rights Begin to Expire?
• Peter K. Yu, The RCEP and Trans-Pacific Intellectual Property Norms

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 50, no. 2, March 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Robert W. Emerson, An International Model for Vicarious Liability in Franchising
• Daniel Francis, Exit Legitimacy
• Vera Korzun, The Right to Regulate in Investor-State Arbitration: Slicing and Dicing Regulatory Carve-Outs
• Peter Tzeng, Humanitarian Intervention at the Margins: An Examination of Recent Incidents

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 50, no. 1, January 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Jorge L. Contreras & Rohini Lakshané, Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey
• Rodolfo D. Saenz, Confronting Mexico’s Enforced Disappearance Monsters: How the ICC Can Contribute to the Process of Realizing Criminal Justice Reform in Mexico
• Michal Saliternik, Expanding the Boundaries of Boundary Dispute Settlement: International Law and Critical Geography at the Crossroads
• Frédéric Gilles Sourgens, Supernational Law

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 49, no. 5, November 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Glen Anderson, A Post-Millennial Inquiry into the United Nations Law of Self-Determination: A Right to Unilateral Non-Colonial Secession?
• Daniel C.K. Chow, Why China Established the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
• Michèle Finck & Sofia Ranchordás, Sharing and the City
• Mark V. Vlasic & Helga Turku, Protecting Cultural Heritage as a Means for International Peace, Security and Stability: The Case of ISIS, Syria and Iraq

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 49, no. 4, October 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel Bodansky & Peter Spiro, Executive Agreements+
• Tsung-Ling Lee, Making International Health Regulations Work: Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
• Benjamin Shmueli, Tax, Don’t Ban: A Comparative Look at Harmful but Legitimate Islamic Family Practices Actionable under Tort Law
• Kevin B. Sobel-Read, A New Model of Sovereignty in the Contemporary Era of Integrated Global Commerce: What Anthropology Contributes to the Shortcomings of Legal Scholarship

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 49, no. 3, May 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Klaus D. Beiter, Terence Karran, & Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, "Measuring" the Erosing of Academic Freedom as an International Human Right: A Report on the Legal Protection of Academic Freedom in Europe
• Jens Dammann, Paradise Lost: Can the European Union Expel Countries from the Eurozone?
• Ryan Mitchell, An International Commission of Inquiry for the South China Sea? Defining the Law of Sovereignty to Determine the Chance for Peace

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 49, no. 2, March 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Cosette D. Creamer & Zuzanna Godzimirska, (De)Legitimization at the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
• Iryna Marchuk, Ukraine and the International Criminal Court: Implications of the Ad Hoc Jurisdiction Acceptance and Beyond
• Michael A. Newton, How the International Criminal Court Threatens Treaty Norms
• Yahli Shereshevsky, Politics by Other Means: The Battle over the Classification of Asymmetrical Conflicts
• Responses
• Roger O'Keefe, "Quid," Not "Quantum": A Comment on "How the International Criminal Court Threatens Treaty Norms"
• Carsten Stahn, The ICC, Pre-Existing Jurisdictional Treaty Regimes, and the Limits of the Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet Doctrine - A Reply to Michael Newton

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 49, no. 1, January 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Gary P. Corn, Should the Best Offense Ever Be a Good Defense? The Public Authority to Use Force in Military Operations: Recalibrating the Use of Force Rules in the Standing Rules of Engagement
• Olga Frishman, Should Courts Fear Transnational Engagement?
• Nicolas Lamp, The Club Approach to Multilateral Trade Lawmaking
• Tatiana Sainati, Divided We Fall: How the International Criminal Court Can Promote Compliance with International Law by Working with Regional Courts