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2018 - 2019

  • Paul Williams, Use of Force in Humanitarian Crises: Addressing the Limitations of U.N. Security Council Authorization. Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, (forthcoming) Available here.

  • Fernanda Nicola, Tackling Inequality in the EU: The New Foundation for a Green and Social Europe, OpinioJuris (May, 2019) Available here.

  • Susan D. Franck, Arbitration Costs: Myths and Realities in Investment Treaty Arbitration. In Andrea Bjourlund, Franco Ferrari & Stephen Kroll, eds. International Arbitration- Between Myth and Reality. Oxford University Press (April 23, 2019) Available here.

  • Fernanda Nicola, Judicialization Of Foreign Relations: Legal Diplomacy For A Cold War Deja’vu , presented at EU Law Workshop at Sorbonne in Paris (April 4, 2019)                     Available here.

  • Juan Méndez, La Prisión Preventiva “Oficiosa” Y Las Obligaciones Internacionales De México, El Universal (February, 2019) Available here.

  • Paul Williams, Atrocities Documented, Accountability Needed: Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism, Harvard Human Rights Journal (February 25, 2019) Available here.

  • Padideh Ala'i, The Vital Role of the WTO Appellate Body in the Promotion of Rule of Law and International Cooperation: A Case Study, The Yale Journal of International Law Online 86, (2019) Available here.

  • Fernanda Nicola, The ‘Italian Style’ in the Opinions of the Advocates General, Paper presented at the conference on "The Advocate General At The CJEU: The Linguistic Aspect" in Dublin, Ireland (January 14, 2019) Available here.

  • Fernanda Nicola, “Waiting for Barbarians: Inside the Archive of the European Court of Justice” in Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott, eds. New Legal Approaches to studying the court of Justice. Oxford University Press (2019) 

  • Fernanda Nicola, Judicial Narratives at the CJEU, Paper presented at iCourts, Copenhagen University (November, 2018)

  • Fernanda Nicola, The Peculiar Reception of the GDPR in the U.S., Paper presented at the National Congress SIRD at the University of Florence, Italy (October, 2018)

  • Claudia Martin, Women Victims of Sexual Torture in Atenco v. Mexico. Expert Opinion for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (November, 2018) Available here.

  • Diane Orentlicher, Some Kind of Justice: The ICTY's Impact in Bosnia and Serbia, Oxford University Press (April, 2018)

  • Macarena Suarez, The Regulation Of Abortion In Chile: The Failure Of The Separation Of Church And State, Religion and Gender (2018)

2017

Articles

  • Kenneth Anderson & Matthew C. Waxman, Debating Autonomous Weapon Systems, Their Ethics, and Their Regulation Under International Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the Regulation of Technology (Karen Young, et al., eds., Oxford U. Press 2017).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Looking Beyond the Known Story: How the Prehistory of GI Protection in the Americas Provides an Alternate Approach, in Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development and Culture in Asia-Pacific (Irene Calboli & Loy Wee Loon, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2017).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Free Speech Comes to Trademark Law SCOTUSblog (June 20, 2017).

  • Fernanda G. Nicola, Luxembourg Judicial Style with or without the UK, 40 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1505, 1534 (2017)

  • Fernanda Nicola, EU law Stories: Contextual and Critical Histories of European Jurisprudence (Fernanda Nicola & Bill Davies, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2017).

  • Fernanda Nicola, National Legal Traditions at Work in the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union 64 Am. J. Comp. L. (2017).

  • David Snyder & Randy Barnett, Chapter 13, Conditions, and Chapter 14, Breach, in Contracts: Cases & Doctrine (6th ed., Aspen Casebook Series, Wolters Kluwer 2017).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley & Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law and Ethics, in Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book (The Hastings Ctr. 2017).

  • Paul Williams, A Legal Perspective on Yemen’s Attempted Transition from a Unitary to a Federal System of Government, Utrecht Journal of International and European Law (2017).  Co-authored with Tiffany Sommadossi and Ayat Mujais. https://utrechtjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ujiel.366/

  • Paul Williams, Blood Antiquities: Addressing a Culture of Impunity in the Antiquities Market Case Western Journal of International Law (2017).  Co-authored with Christin Coster. http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2502&context=jil

2016

Articles

  • Jennifer Daskal, Law Enforcement Access to Data Across Borders: The Evolving Security & Rights Issues 8 J. Natl. Sec. L. & Policy 473 (Sept. 6, 2016).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Counsel of Record, Amicus Curiae Brief of Law Professors, Lee v. Tam filed in U.S. (No. 15-1293 (Nov. 16, 2016)).

  • Christine Haight Farley & Irene Calboli, The Trademark Provisions in the TRIPS Agreement, in Intellectual Property and International Trade: TRIPS Agreement (Carlos M. Correa ed., 3d. ed., Wolters Kluwer 2016).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Green Marks, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change (Joshua D. Sarnoff ed., Edward Elgar Press 2016).

  • Rebecca Hamilton, State-Enabled Crimes 41 Yale J. Intl. L. (August 1, 2016).

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  • Fernanda Nicola & Daniele Gallo, The External Dimension of EU Investment Law: Jurisdictional Clashes and Transformative Adjudication 39 Ford. Intl. L.J. (2016).

  • Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon, Introductory Note to the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Rights of Older Persons, 55 ILM 985 (2016).

  • Macarena Saez, La Reglamentación del Aborto en Chile: El fracaso de la separación entre Iglesia y Estado, in Sexo, Delitos y Pecados: Intersecciones Entre Religión, Género, Sexualidad y el Derecho en América Latina (J.M. Morán Faúndes & M. Saez, eds., Ctr. for Latin Am. & Latino Studies, Am. U. Dec. 2016).

  • Macarena Saez, Commentary, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, in U.S. Feminist Judgments Project (Linda Berger, Bridget Crawford & Kathy Stanchi, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2016).

  • Macarena Saez, Sexual Orientation & the Law, in Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies(Angela Wong, Maithree Wickramasinghe and Renee C. Hooglan, eds., Wiley-Blackwell 2016).

  • Anita Sinha, Stealing Labor ColorLines (Sept. 5, 2016).

  • Franck, Susan D. and van Aaken, Anne and Freda, James and Guthrie, Chris and Rachlinski , Jeffrey J., Inside the Arbitrator's Mind (November 20, 2016). Emory Law Journal, Vol. 66, 2017; Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-46; American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-08.

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Manel Kappagoda, & Anne Pearson, Public Health Law: Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (Glenn Cohen, Allison Hoffman, & William Sage, eds., Oxford U. Press 2016).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Applying the Health Justice Framework to Diabetes as a Community-managed Social Phenomenon 16 Houston J. Health L. & Policy 191 (2016).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, The Struggle for the Soul of Public Health 41 J. Health, Politics, Policy & L. 1147(2016).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, From Patient Rights to Health Justice 37 Cardozo L. Rev. 833 (2016).

  • Paul Williams, The Role of Lawyers in Peacebuilding, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law (2016). Co-authored with Christin Coster.

  • Paul Williams, Strategic Absence: US Policy in the Middle East and North Africa, Case Western Journal of International Law (2016).

Books

  • Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon (co-editor), Lo Humano como Derecho - De lo internacional a lo Local (Rodriguez-Pinzon, et al., Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Am. U. Wash. College of L. 2016).

2015

Articles

  • Padideh Ala'i & David Gantz, Climate Change Innovation, Products and Services Under the GATT/WTO System, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change (Sarnoff ed., Edward Elgar Publg. 2015).

  • Padideh Ala'i, The United States’ Multidimensional Approach to Combatting Corruption, in The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts (Springer, Bonnell, & Meyer, eds.,Intl. Academy of Comp. L. 2015).

  • Padideh Ala'i, Role of Transparency at the World Trade Organization ASIL Proceedings of the 109th Annual Meeting (2015).

  • Kenneth Anderson & Benjamin Wittes, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law (Hoover Instn. Press 2015).

  • Janie Chuang, Giving as Governance? Philanthrocapitalism and Modern-Day Slavery Abolitionism 62 UCLA L. Rev. 1516 (2015).

  • Janie Chuang, Debate: The Challenges and Perils of Reframing Trafficking as 'Modern-Day Slavery' 5 Anti-Trafficking Rev. 146 (2015).

  • Janie Chuang, Giving as Governance? Philanthrocapitalism and Modern-Day Slavery Abolitionism 62 UCLA L. Rev. 1516 (2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The Un-Territoriality of Data 125 Yale L. Rev. 326 (2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Case to Watch: Microsoft v. US on the Extraterritorial Reach of ECPA Just Sec. 03-05-15 (Mar. 5, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The Substance of The Second Circuit: Four Key Takeaways ACS Blog (May 8, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The NDAA 2016: GTMO Restrictions Redux (and A Sensible Alternative From Rep. Smith) Just Sec. (Apr. 26, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Two Questions for Stephen Preston Just Sec. (Apr. 11, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Why Sunset and Supersession Provisions Are Both Needed in an Anti-ISIL AUMF Just. Sec. (Mar. 18, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, It’s Up To Congress: No More Perpetual War Roanoke Times (Mar. 10, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Microsoft Case: The Government Responds, But Fails To Convince Just. Sec.(Mar. 10, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal & Ben Wittes, The Intellectual but Not Political AUMF Consensus Just Sec. (Mar. 2, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Challenging the Guantanamo Narrative Just Sec. (Feb. 9, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Close Guantanamo, But Do It Right Newsday (Feb. 6, 2015).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Top 10 National Security Cases to Watch in 2015 Just Sec. (Jan. 1, 2015).

  • Christine Haight Farley & Kavita DeVaney, Considering Trademark and Speech Rights through the Lens of Regulating Tobacco 43 Am. Intell. Prop. L. Assn. Q. J. 289 (2015).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Registering Offense: Morality and Public Order in the U.S. Trademark Act, in Protecting and Promoting Diversity With Intellectual Property Law (Irene Calboli & Srividhya Ragavan, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2015).

  • Christine Haight Farley, No Comment: Will Prince v. Cariou Alter Copyright Judges’ Taste in Art? 4 Intell. Prop. Theory 19 (2015).

  • Christine Haight Farley & Robert Tsai, Racial Slurs Shouldn’t Be Trademarked: The Washington Football Team’s Name is an Obstacle to Interstate Commerce Slate (Apr. 20, 2015).

  • Sean Flynn, ACTA’s Constitutional Problem in the United States, in The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda: Genesis and Aftermath (Pedro Roffe & Xavier Seuba, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2015).

  • Susan D. Franck, The Diversity Challenge: Exploring the “Invisible College” of International Arbitration 53 Colum. J. Transnatl. L. 429 (2015).

  • Susan D. Franck, Predicting Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration 65 Duke L.J. 459 (2015).

  • Rebecca Hamilton, When Should the ICC Call It Quits? Opinio Juris (Jan. 10, 2015).

  • Daniela Kraiem, The Cost of Opportunity: Student Debt & Social Mobility 48 Suffolk U. L. Rev.689 (2015).

  • Claudia Martin, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon, & Bethany Brown, Human Rights of Older People: International and Regional Legal Perspectives (Springer SMB Publishers 2015).

  • Fernanda Nicola, The Politicization of Legal Expertise in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Negotiation 78 L. & Contemp. Probs. (2015).

  • Susana SáCouto & Katherine Cleary, Investigative Management, Strategies, and Techniques of the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor, in The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court: A Critical Account of Challenges and Achievements (Oxford U. Press 2015).

  • Macarena Saez, Transforming Family Law Through Same-sex Marriage: Lessons From (and To) the Western World 25 Duke J. Comp. & Intl. L. 125 (Fall 2015) (Recipient of the William M. LeoGrande Award 2015).

  • Macarena Saez, ed., Same-Sex Couples: Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation(Springer May 2015).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Deregulation, Distrust, and Democracy: State and Local Action to Ensure Equitable Access to Healthy, Sustainably-produced Food 41 Am. J. L. Med. 284 (2015).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Wendy E. Parmet, & Peter D. Jacobson, Adventures in Nannydom: Reclaiming Collective Action for the Public’s Health 43 J. L. Med. & Ethics 73 (2015).

  • Paul Williams, Earned Sovereignty Revisited: Creating a Strategic Framework for Managing SelfDetermination Based Conflicts, ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law  (2015).

Books

  • Susan D. Franck, International Arbitration: Demographics, Precision and Justice, in ICCA Proceedings 33 (Albert Jan Van Den Berg, ed., 2015).

2014

Articles

  • Padideh Ala'i & Matthew D'Orsi, Transparency in International Economic Relations and the Role of the WTO, in Research Handbook on Transparency: Comparative Approaches (Ala'i & Vaugh eds., Edward Elgar Publg. 2014).

  • Padideh Ala'i, Research Handbook on Transparency: Comparative Approaches (Ala'i & Vaughn eds., Edward Elgar Publg. 2014).

  • Padideh Ala'i, Civil Consequences of Corruption in International Commercial Contracts: U.S. National Report 62 Am. J. Comp. L. 185 (2014).

  • Janie Chuang, Exploitation Creep and the Unmaking of Human Trafficking Law 108 Am. J. Intl. L. 1 (2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal & Stephen I. Vladeck, After the AUMF 5 Harv. Natl. Sec. L.J. 115 (2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Pre-Crime Restraints: The Explosion of Targeted, Non-Custodial Prevention 99 Cornell. L. Rev. 327 (2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Preventive Value of the Senate Torture Report Just Sec. (Dec. 12, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act: A Silver Lining for Guantanamo Detainees Just Sec. (Dec. 5, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, The Wrong (and Right) Lessons Re: Congressional Inaction on ISIL Just Sec. (Oct. 6, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Ashley Deeks, & Ryan Goodman, Strikes in Syria: The International Law Framework Just Sec./Lawfare (Sept. 24, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Democracy’s Failure Just Sec. (Sept. 11, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal & Stephen I. Vladeck, How Not to Go To War MSNBC.com (Aug. 28, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Domestic Law Implications of Repealing the AUMF Intercross Blog (Apr. 22, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Lethal Targeting of US Citizens: AP Report Raises More Questions Than Answers Just Sec. (Feb. 10, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, What the No Fly List Teaches Us About Big Data Just Sec. (Feb. 7, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, Counterterrorism Under the Radar: A Notable No Fly List Case and its Broader Implications Just Sec. (Jan. 27, 2014).

  • Jennifer Daskal, After the AUMF: Iraq and Al Qaeda Redux (Jan. 11, 2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, The Protection of Geographical Indications in the Inter-American Convention on Trademarks 6 WIPO J. 68 (2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Stabilizing Morality in Trademark Law 63 Am. U. L. Rev. 101 (2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, The Pan-American Trademark Convention of 1929: A Bold Vision of Extraterritorial Meets Current Realities, in Trademark Protection and Territoriality: Challenges in the Global Economy (Irene Calboli & Edward Lee, eds., Edward Elgar Press 2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Territorial Exclusivity in U.S. Copyright and Trademark Law, in Distribution des Intangibles: La Propriété Intellectuelle Dans Le Commerce des Nouveaux Biens (Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse ed., Les Editions Thémis 2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, TRIPS-plus Trade and Investment Agreements: Why More May Be Less for Economic Development 35 U. Penn. J. Intl. L. 1061 (2014).

  • Christine Haight Farley, Op-ed: How Should We Define Disparaging Daily J. (May. 2014).

  • Sean Flynn, Special 301 and Global Administrative Law, in Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America 225 (Rochelle Dreyfuss & Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, eds., Oxford U. Press 2014).

  • Susan D. Franck, Using Investor-State Mediation Rules to Promote Conflict Management 29 ICSID Rev. 66 (2014).

  • Susan D. Franck, Foreign Investments and the Market for Law 2014 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1617 (2014).

  • Susan D. Franck, Conflating Politics and Development in the Outcomes of Investment Treaty Disputes 55 Va. J. Intl. L. 13 (2014).

  • Rebecca Hamilton, The ICC’s Exit Problem 47 N.Y.U. J. Intl. L. & Pol. 1 (2014).

  • Rebecca Hamilton, Justice for MH17 For. Policy (July 25, 2014).          

  • Jayesh Rathod, Distilling Americans: The Legacy of Prohibition on U.S. Immigration Law 51 Hous. L. Rev. 781 (2014).

  • Jayesh Rathod, Riding the Wave: Uplifting Labor Organizations through Immigration Reform 4 U. Cal. Irvine L. Rev. 625 (2014).

  • Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon, The Inter-American Human Rights System and Transitional Processe, in Transitional Jurisprudence - The ECHR and Other Regional Human Rights Approaches to Transition (Michael Hamilton & Antoine Buyse, eds., Cambridge U. Press 2014).

  • Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon (co-author), The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System (Boris Wijkstrom, ed., OMCT 2014 (also published in Spanish, La Prohibición de la Tortura y los Malos Tratos en el Sistema Interamericano)).

  • Susana SáCouto, Dan Plesch, & Chante Lasco, The Relevance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Today 25 Crim. L. Forum 349(2014).

  • Susana SáCouto & Katherine Cleary, The Adjudication Process and Reasoning at the International Criminal Court 30 Jus Gentium: Comp. Persp. on L. & Just. 131 (2014).

  • Susana SáCouto, Gaps in Gender-Based Violence Jurisprudence of International and Hybrid Criminal Courts: Can Human Rights Law Help?, in Strengthening the Protection of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the African Region Through Human Rights (Ebenezer Durojaye & Charles Ngwena, eds., Pretoria U. Press 2014).

  • David Snyder & Martin Davies, International Transactions in Goods: Global Sales in Comparative Context (Oxford U. Press 2014).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Health Law as Social Justice 24 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 47 (2014).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Access to Health Care as an Incentive for Healthy Behavior? An Assessment of the Affordable Care Act’s Personal Responsibility for Wellness Provisions 11 Ind. Health L. Rev.642 (2014).

  • Lindsay F. Wiley, Sugary Drinks, Happy Meals, Social Norms, and the Law: The Normative Impact of Product Configuration Bans 46 Conn. L. Rev. 1877 (2014).

  • Paul Williams, Piracy, the Response of International Law, Case Western Journal of International Law, (2014). Co-authored with D. L. Pressly

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