The Yale Journal of International Law along with the Law & Political Economy Project and Blog is hosting a Symposium on Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) and economic sanctions. As part of the Symposium, there...
Managing Mixed Migration The term “mixed migration” is typically used to describe the cross-border movements of people who are prima facie refugees and people who move for economic reasons. But the term also characterizes...
Written by Hugo Cahueñas* With devastating effects across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a “slow-onset disaster” [1] and warrants analysis through a disaster risk reduction framework. [2] Several countries, including Ecuador, have already...
Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik* and Ingunn Ikdahl** Introduction COVID-19 lockdowns have had momentous impact on children’s lives worldwide and in particular on the right to education. Save the Children reports that more than...
Written by Rachael Stryer* Over the past three and a half years, the Trump administration has sought to radically restrict access to asylum in the United States through administrative decision-making and rulemaking. Two recent...
China and International Legal Order Virtual Symposium HILJ-YJIL-Oxford | October 15, 2020 To register, please click the link and provide your name, email address, affiliation, and job title (including student): https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RCxnlKkiQMujwaF1UdyTPg. As deglobalization...
Written by Hendrick Townley & Asaf Lubin “It was noon on an ordinary sunny spring day in May, but the scene was not as it should have been outside the Islamic Da’wah Center in...
On February 22, 2019, YJIL successfully hosted a one-day conference at Yale Law School entitled “International Trade in the Trump Era.” The conference corresponds to the series of Features Essays published as a part of our...
The international trade order is in crisis. Since the election of President Donald J. Trump, the United States has initiated—and escalated—a trade war with China, forced the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade...
Written by Mehdi J. Hakimi* Following the Taliban’s announcement of their annual spring offensive, violence has ratcheted up across Afghanistan. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the Afghan conflict resulted in...