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• Maritime piracy: how can international law and policy address this growing global menace?

I. INTRODUCTION Maritime piracy disrupts international navigation and trade and threatens the lives and property of people of many nations. Thus, be...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 2, March 2011

• Article 37(2) of the ILO Constitution: can an ILO interpretive tribunal end the hegemony of international trade law?

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE EXISTING ILO SUPERVISORY MECHANISM A. Mechanisms Relating to Observance of Conventions B. Mechanisms Relating to...

• Georgetown Journal of International Law
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, March 2011

• Current U.S. Air Force drone operations and their conduct in compliance with international humanitarian law - an overview.

I. Introduction II. Command and Control During USAF RPA Operations A. Overview of Current USAF RPA Operations 1. A Typical USAF RPA Combat Air Patrol ...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 4, September 2011

• Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources

The doctrine of sources has served international law well over the past century, providing structure and coherence during a time when international law was expanding rapidly and dramatically. But the doctrine's explanatory power is increasingly being challenged. Current doctrine tells us that treaties are international law; empirical evidence, however, suggests that treaties are poor predictors of state practice. The expansion of the international community, the rise of human rights, developments in international legal theory, and the international system's need to adapt to changing circumstances have also put pressure on the reified role of "treaty" in identifying rules of international law. Drawing from a number of theories developed to explain why states comply with international...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 93-1, November 2007

• Basic functions and principles of international environmental law in the context of managing water resources.

I. INTRODUCTION International environmental law plays an important role in shaping and giving effect to institutional policies for managing natural ...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 3, June 2011

• Efficient breach of international law: optimal remedies, "legalized noncompliance," and related issues.

In much of the scholarly literature on international law, there is a tendency to condemn violations of the law and to leave it at that. If all violati...

• Michigan Law Review
• Vol. 110 Nbr. 2, November 2011

• Security Council targeted sanctions, due process and the 1267 Ombudsperson.

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. BACKGROUND OF TARGETED SANCTIONS AND THE 1267 SANCTIONS REGIME A. Security Council Targeted Sanctions B. The Securit...

• Georgetown Journal of International Law
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, March 2011

• Empirical approaches to international law.

This panel was convened at 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 25, 2010, by its moderator, Tonya Putnam of Columbia University, who introduced the panelists: El...

• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting-American Society of International Law
• Nbr. 104, January 2010

• Towards holistic transnational protection: an overview of international public law approaches to kidnapping.

This article assesses dilemmas presented by the global phenomenon of kidnapping. It highlights the challenge presented by failed or semi-failed states...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 4, September 2010

• The unpleasant responsibilities of international human rights law.

The prevailing view in the legal literature on the fight against terrorism is that the current structure of international law--the law enforcement/arm...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, June 2010