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Presidential Control Over International Law

Vol. 131 No. 5 March 2018 Presidents have come to dominate the making, interpretation, and termination of international law for the United States. Often without specific congressional concurrence, and sometimes...

International Law Commentary

Why Puerto Rico Does Not Need Further Experimentation with Its Future: A Reply to the Notion of “Territorial Federalism”

U.S. Territories Commentary Series

Response to Territorial Federalism

Vol. 131 No. 3 January 2018

Juan R. Torruella

Environmental Law Blog Essay

The Other 46 Percent: New Law of the Sea Negotiation on High Seas Biodiversity

January 4, 2018 Don’t the high seas seem less remote than they used to? Many of us have gazed out an airplane window on an intercontinental flight...

Cymie Payne

International Law Blog Essay

To Preserve Biodiversity, Start with Five Universal Truths About Corruption

November 16, 2017 In an era of increased awareness of ecology and the environment, meaningful implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora...

Juliet Sorensen

Human Rights Blog Essay

How To Help the Migration Crisis — and Make International Law

October 24, 2017 The global migration crisis has become a political crisis. As migrants continue the perilous sea journey across the Mediterranean, EU politicians remain deadlocked on...

Jill Goldenziel

Extraterritoriality Recent Case

Trader Joe’s Co. v. Hallatt

Ninth Circuit Applies Lanham Act to Wholly Foreign Sales.

Vol. 130 No. 7 May 2017

Extraterritoriality Notes

Clarifying Kiobel’s “Touch and Concern” Test

Vol. 130 No. 7 May 2017 The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) is a single sentence long. It’s a pithy statute, but for many years it served as a “lynchpin” of...

U.S. Territories Developments in the Law

American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism

Chapter Three

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017

U.S. Territories Developments in the Law

Introduction

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017 American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — these five localities make up what we know as...

U.S. Territories Developments in the Law

The International Place of Puerto Rico

Chapter Two

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017