The Alien Tort Statute in the United States: U.S. Compliance with International Law Norms following Nestlé v. Doe
An Online Annotation by Anuja Chowdhury, Staff Editor
China and International Labor Standards: New Guidelines Extend Labor Protections to Platform Workers
China and International Labor Standards: New Guidelines Extend Labor Protections to Platform Workers An Online Annotation by Galia Popov, Staff Editor PDF version available here. International labor standards are largely promulgated by the International Labour Organization (ILO), whose conventions, protocols…
Swedish Prosecution of Corporate Complicity in Sudanese War Crimes
Swedish Prosecution of Corporate Complicity in Sudanese War Crimes By Harrison A. Meyer, Senior Executive Editor, N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics On November 11, 2021, Swedish prosecutors indicted two executives of Lundin Energy AB (“Lundin”), a Swedish-based oil…
Non-disclosure Agreements and Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
An online annotation by Young Park, Staff Editor* PDF version available here. I. Introduction In May 2020, 140 world leaders and experts signed an open letter advocating for all COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines to be treated as “public goods,”…
Aircraft Leasing Contracts in the Pandemic Era: Navigating the Challenges of Invoking Force Majeure by Applying Hardship under International Commercial Law
An online article by Tanya Agarwal (L.L.B. student at Amity Law School, Delhi)* PDF version is available here. Most aircrafts are acquired through leasing agreements where the financial burden is placed on the lessor through financing of heavy equipment in…
Customary International Law and the Challenge of Climate Change: How to Deal with the Stagnation of the Paris Agreement
An online article by Moise Jean (Ph.D candidate in International Law at the Université Paris Nanterre)* PDF version is available here. More than five years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, states are struggling to implement its main provisions.…
Political Opinion, Societal Power, and Northern Triangle Gangs
An online annotation by Adam Weir, Staff Editor. PDF version available here. I. Introduction Recent scholarship argues that the term “political opinion” under the 1951 Refugee Convention (“1951 Convention”) and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (“1967…
LexisNexis and I.C.E.: An Examination of LexisNexis’s Human Rights Responsibilities
An online annotation by Yulanda Lui, Staff Editor. PDF Version available here. I. Introduction The use of personal data and identification technology in immigration enforcement is not new.[1] In the United States, the practice can be traced back as early…
A Doomed Investigation: How Political Immunity, Corruption, and a Lack of Judicial Independence Stymy an Investigation into the Beirut Port Explosion of August 4, 2020
PDF version available here. An online annotation by Lucius Lambert, Staff Editor. I. The Economic State of Lebanon before and after the Beirut Port Explosion On August 4, 2020, in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in modern history, the…
France’s Overdue Debt to Haiti
An online article by Kristen Casey, Kathy Fernández & Nikoleta Nikova (J.D. graduates from Duke University School of Law)* PDF version available here. Abstract: In 1825, in exchange for formal recognition of statehood, France coerced Haiti to pay a 150…