Written by Carlos Bernal Colombian Constitutional Court I In Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment, Richard Albert endorses four main claims: one conceptual, one descriptive, and two normative. The conceptual claim is that there is a...
International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability: The Remedies and Reparations Gap by Carla Ferstman, Oxford University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Isa Qasim In 2010, United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal arrived in Haiti to...
Is International Law International? by Anthea Roberts, Oxford University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Beatrice Walton It was a relatively straightforward Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 that first...
Written by Hyun-Soo Lim* Approximately two years ago, the Foreign Ministers of South Korea and Japan announced that they had “final[ly] and irreversibl[y]” resolved the issue of Japanese wartime sexual slavery.[1] In doing so,...
Written by Josh Macey, Paul Strauch, Mitzi Steiner & Nathaniel Zelinsky† Just over a month ago, a Swedish court became the first court anywhere to convict an individual associated with the Assad regime for...
By Frédéric G. Sourgens, Washburn University School of Law. I would like to thank Asaf Lubin for his response to my article The Privacy Principle. In A Principled Defence of the International Human Right to...
The Child in International Refugee Law by Jason M. Pobjoy, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Marina Sharpe* Human rights give legal expression to our most foundational shared precepts of justice. It is therefore always surprising...
Written by Roncevert Ganan Almond. Just a few weeks ago, tech titan Elon Musk announced his lofty intention to send the first colonists to Mars by 2024. The precise estimate may be ambitious, but technological...
Written by Quentin Johnson In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam in Kuala Lumpur, foreign policy circles and the news media focused on palace intrigue, the ramifications for China, and the...
Written by Tracy Nelson On March 16th, President Trump released an initial budget outline for fiscal year (FY) 2018. The outline indicates a $37.6 billion request to fund State Department and USAID operations, including...