By: Ian Brownlie
This speech was presented by Ian Brownlie upon receiving the Wolfgang Friedmann Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of International Law. The speech was given at the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law Friedmann Award Dinner on February 1, 2006.
By: David Sloss
In both Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, government briefs asserted that there is a “long-established presumption” that treaties do not create judicially-enforceable individual rights. In his dissent in Sanchez-Llamas, Justice Breyer challenged this...
By: Keith J. Hand
The Chinese government’s rule of law campaign has created greater awareness of legal issues and generated bottom-up pressure for legal change. This dynamic was highlighted in April 2003, when Chinese media reports on the death of a young man named Sun Zhigang while in...
By: Roger P. Alford
This Essay discusses the role of the WTO Appellate Body through the lens of its decision in United States—Laws, Regulations, and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins. The author argues that the Appellate Body ignored textual obligations to defer to...
By: Tomer Broude
This essay critically analyzes the role of development and poverty alleviation in the legal and institutional workings of the World Trade Organization (WTO). By analogy to Joseph Weiler’s analysis of the dynamics of internal and external legitimacy in WTO dispute...
By: Vincent G. Lévy
Dorsey & Whitney Student Writing Prize in Comparative and International Law Best Note Award Winner This Note criticizes the argument against incorporating international norms through federal common law in the context of sentencing juvenile offenders to life...
By: Sandra P. Kister
The “share-structure reform” currently underway in China’s stock market aims to resolve the so-called “split-equity structure,” wherein the Chinese securities regulator prohibits two-thirds of shares technically listed on the market from actually trading. This Note...
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