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ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 1
Copyright and Inequality
The standard theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the reality is…
Lea Shaver -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 6
Corruption, Corporations, and the New Human Right
We should no longer expect the Alien Tort Statute to be the principal federal statute that deters overseas corporate rights violations. That distinction rightly…
Andrew B Spalding -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 5
Denialism and the Death Penalty
The persistence of capital punishment as a constitutional form of punishment in the United States reflects deep denialism about the practice and the role…
Jenny-Brooke Condon -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 2
Juvenile Life Without Parole Post- Miller: The Long, Treacherous Road Towards a Categorical Rule
For the better part of a decade, life without the possibility of parole (“LWOP”) has been the United States’ harshest constitutional penalty for juvenile…
Sean Craig -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
The Indigenous McClain Doctrine: A New Legal Tool to Protect Cultural Patrimony and the Right to Self-Determination
In December 2010, the United States endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which obligates the United States to…
Matthew Birkhold -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 6
The Rise of International Corporate Law
Comparative corporate governance has focused either on prevailing differences across legal systems or on spontaneous legal transplants of foreign institutions in response to global competition. This…
Mariana Pargendler -
NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 2
Model Language for Supported Decision-Making Statutes
States often impose guardianship on people whose disabilities interfere with their decision-making ability, thereby entrusting another person with decision-making on their behalf. People with…
Rachel Mattingly Phillips -
ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 4
Shame in the Security Council
The decision of the U.N. Security Council to authorize military intervention in Libya in 2011 was greeted as a triumph of the power of…
Saira Mohamed -
NoteVol. 90 · Iss. 2
The Trouble with Transfers: An Analysis of the Referral of Uwinkindi to the Republic of Rwanda for Trial
This Note will provide a brief overview of the Rwandan genocide, the U.N.’s establishment of the Tribunal, and efforts to bring the Tribunal to…
Jennifer Wren Morris