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Sovereign Immunity Leading Case

Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 Under international law, the principle of foreign sovereign immunity is derived from the proposition that “one country cannot exercise jurisdiction over another without violating...

Second Amendment Essay

Torture in Our Schools?

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every...

Leila Nadya Sadat

Climate Change Developments in the Law

The Promise and Perils of Carbon Tariffs

Chapter Five

Vol. 135 No. 6 April 2022

International Law Recent Case

Fedotova v. Russia

European Court of Human Rights Holds That Russia Must Give Legal Recognition to Same-Sex Couples

Vol. 135 No. 5 March 2022

Foreign & Comparative Law Case Comment

Legal Responses to Black Subordination, Global Perspectives

Vol. 134 No. 7 June 2021 [I]n order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all...

Kevin E. Davis

Alien Tort Statute Notes

The “Prudential Exhaustion” Doctrine in Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts

Vol. 134 No. 2 December 2020 “As a moth is drawn to the light, so is a litigant drawn to the United States.” In 1983, when the British judge Lord...

Executive Power Recent Case

United States v. Hamidullin

Fourth Circuit Holds Taliban Member Not Entitled to Combatant Immunity.

Vol. 132 No. 2 December 2018

Alien Tort Statute Leading Case

Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC

Vol. 132 No. 1 November 2018 The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been a creature on the run. Birthed under presumptions of general common law, it found itself in Erie’s...

Immigration Notes

American Courts and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees: A Need for Harmony in the Face of a Refugee Crisis

Vol. 131 No. 5 March 2018 Introduction The international refugee regime is one of the most frequently applied bodies of international law in domestic settings worldwide. The 1951 Convention Relating...

Political Question Doctrine Recent Case

bin Ali Jaber v. United States

D.C. Circuit Holds Statutory Challenge to Drone Strike is Nonjusticiable.

Vol. 131 No. 5 March 2018