The International Review Newsletter
International law in plain English ^TM

The International Review is the award-winning and only academic newsletter published by an ABA-accredited law school that reports on a broad range of contemporary international and comparative law topics. In contrast to other legal publications which are often laden with dense prose and technical jargon, the articles in The International Review (which began publication in 1999) are written in plain English. It is published twice a year by the Center for International Law.

This newsletter is not a law review and also does not accept unsolicited articles.

In 2009, the Sixth Annual Magnum Opus Awards awarded The International Review with the Gold Award for "Most Improved Editorial (Print Newsletter)." The Newsletter on Newsletters awarded The International Review with its 2007 Gold Award for "Best Edited Organization Newsletter."

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Spring / Summer 2012 Contents: Volume 14, Issue 2 (4.06 MB in PDF format)

• Taking property for the public good: Eminent domain laws from around the world
• Minimum wage policies in other nations and under international law
• Flag desecration laws at home and abroad
• Will new laws help develop effective and safe drugs more quickly?
• Child sex abuse: Will the International Criminal Court investigate the Vatican?
• Australia: Women soldiers at the front line of combat?
• European Union: No more added sugar in fruit juices
• International Criminal Court: The first judgment
• First conviction of a former head of state since the end of World War II
• Will a new treaty address Europe’s financial crisis?
• On the road to a new global climate agreement?
• Does using solitary confinement violate international law?
• Medical waste: A growing human rights hazard?
• Controversial U.S. tax law for Americans with foreign accounts
• The death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi: A violation of international law?
• China: Illegal limits on exports of raw materials and its far-reaching implications
• C.V. Starr Lectures and Lunchtime Lectures: Summaries

Fall / Winter 2011 Contents: Volume 14, Issue 1 (3.78 MB in PDF format)

• Cigarettes meet international law: Will tobacco use go up in smoke?
• Stopping the recruitment and use of child soldiers
• No place to call home: The status and rights of stateless people
• Collective punishment and international law: Punished for the acts of others
• The United Nations and the Rule of Law: Delivered by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
• Does international law effectively protect art, antiquities, and cultural property?
• Who will prosecute the son of Col. Muammar Qaddafi?
• Saudi Arabia: Arrested for being a woman driver
• United States: Copyright protection for fashion designs?
• Arctic Council: Setting the stage for more cooperation in the Arctic?
• Do Internet restrictions violate international law?
• Killing Osama bin Laden: Legal or illegal under international law?
   

Spring / Summer 2011 Contents: Volume 13, Issue 2 (5.18 MB in PDF format)

 

• Same-sex marriage around the world: Overview and status of debate
• Can the United States kill Americans who support terrorism?
• Prosecuting and punishing pirates: A work in progress
• Criminal disenfranchisement at home and abroad
• Oklahoma: Sharia, international law banned in courts?
• Switzerland: New law to recover stolen public funds from abroad
• United Kingdom: Plastic wrap controversy
• Can international law clean up electronic waste?
• New agreement to protect, share benefits of biodiversity
• More money in the bank to prevent financial crises
• Can Libya end its Arab Spring by using mercenaries?
• New York: Entire corporations cannot be sued for human rights abuses
• Japan: Nuclear power accident too hot for international law?
• Asteroids: Can international law address an out-of-this-world problem?

Fall / Winter 2010 Contents: Volume 13, Issue 1 (3.05 MB in PDF format)

• Protecting animal welfare: Overview and future prospects
• Does greater use of criminal law prevent the spread of HIV?
• “Vulture Funds”: Preying on poor countries or pursuing deadbeat nations?
• Protecting migrant workers: The legal framework and status of debate
• “Ideological exclusion”: Keeping out people who don’t share your views?
• Asylum in the United States for foreign homeschoolers?
• Does Arizona’s anti-illegal immigrant law violate international law?
• Kosovo: A license for more independence days around the world?
• The crime of aggression on the slow road to becoming a crime
• Gulf of Mexico oil leak: Any role for international law?
• More protection for salamanders, but not for coral, polar bears, sharks, and tunas
• Will a new agreement finally stop counterfeiting and piracy?
• Teaching international law to terrorists can be a federal crime
• Right to water and sanitation officially recognized as human rights
• Fewer tour boats, but cleaner sailing around Antarctica

Spring / Summer 2010 Contents: Volume 12, Issue 2 (5.14 MB in PDF format)

• Conflict diamonds poised to make a comeback?
• Three-strikes laws: An effective way to combat Internet piracy?
• Decriminalizing personal drug use across the Western hemisphere?
• Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and international law: Overview and debate
• Ongoing challenges to religious freedoms worldwide
• A global sex offender registry?
• European Union: Finally, a better, stronger, and faster union?
• DNA testing for UK asylum seekers?
• Can victims of domestic violence seek asylum?
• A new approach in tackling illegal fishing
• Progress at Copenhagen climate change conference?
• Is spanking illegal under international law?
• Do people have a right to a toilet?
• What are your rights after earthquakes and other disasters?
• Renewed efforts to stop nuclear proliferation
• A super-agency for women only?
• Will American media goods now flood Chinese markets?

Fall 2009 Contents: Volume 12, Issue 1 (5.72 MB in PDF format)

• The legal implications of the "torture memos": To prosecute or not?
• Using international law to combat uncooperative tax havens
• Global efforts to hold corporations accountable: Past efforts and current initiatives
• Reform of the UN internal justice system: Meeting the expectations of its own standards
• Human trafficking: What role for international law for a still growing problem?
• An international right to any name?
• An independent Supreme Court for the United Kingdom
• Swine flu, pandemics, and international law
• Global efforts to stop organ trafficking
• Uneven progress in global efforts to fight bribery
• Are Taliban fighters obeying the laws of war?
• United States joins the Human Rights Council
• United States signs gay rights declaration
• Racial discrimination review conference: Making a difference?
   

Spring 2009 Contents (10th anniversary issue): Volume 11, Issue 2 (7.22 MB in PDF format)

• Cyber warfare and international law: Unresolved issues
• The world financial crisis: Time for a new global regulatory regime?
• Legal issues in the closing of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility
• Hot pursuit: Legal or illegal under international law?
• U.S. child custody disputes at home and abroad
• Chinese South Africans are now “black”
• A new system for making food health claims in the European Union
• First arrest warrant issued for sitting head of state
• A better way to seek child support payments
• Better access to essential medicines for developing countries?
• The conflict in Georgia: Recognizing separatist territories and international law
• Continuing gender discrimination in clothing and apparel tariffs?
• Mixed verdict in first military commission jury trial of suspected terrorist
• Sexual violence: A threat to international peace and security

Fall 2008 Contents: Volume 11, Issue 1 (6.23 MB in PDF format)

• Responding to rising food prices: The limits of international law
• Avast! International law and piracy on the high seas
• Upholding a safeguard in the "war on terror": The right to challenge government detention
• The Responsibility to Protect: A new approach in stopping mass atrocities
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Legal aspects of its evolving security mission
• Fleeing from Iraq: How effective is the UN refugee convention?
• Fighting Internet censorship through international trade
• Lowering oil prices by suing OPEC?
• Outsourcing reproduction to other nations?
• Anti-anorexia law in France
• Legal rights for apes in Spain
• Foreign libel suits and the protection of free speech
• The Olympic Games and freedom of speech
• International Criminal Court: Mistrial of its first trial?
• International Criminal Court: Another first: Arrest warrant for sitting head of state
• New rules regulating sovereign wealth funds?
• Hefty tax bill for renouncing American citizenship
• Will a new treaty end the trouble with bomblets?
• More government surveillance in the works?
• The United States in Iraq: Laying a new legal foundation for continued U.S. involvement
   

Spring 2008 Contents: Volume 10, Issue 2 (2.20 MB in PDF format)

• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Hindering the "War on Terror"?
• Regulating sovereign wealth funds
• Amending birthright citizenship: A better way to control illegal immigration?
• Punishing human rights violations: First corporate jury verdict under the Alien Tort Claims Act
• The United States in Iraq: A Five-Year Review of Unresolved Legal Issues (special section)
• Unwarranted surveillance in America? The National Security Agency surveillance program
• Targeted killings in the war on terror: Legitimate or illegal?
• On the road to a new climate agreement?
• The European Union: Adopting a failed constitution as a treaty
• Jury duty back in Japan
• Showdown on harsh CIA interrogation techniques
• Birth of a nation: Legal issues in Kosovo's independence
• United Nations: Better treatment for indigenous peoples?
• United Nations: The end of the death penalty?

Fall 2007 Contents: Volume 10, Issue 1 (5.39 MB in PDF format)

• The U.S. Supreme Court and Global Warming: National and International Implications
• Hedge funds: In need of international regulation?
• Universal jurisdiction: Prosecuting any crimes committed anywhere?
• Is the WTO Providing More Access to Essential Medicines?
• KORUS: A trade agreement binding the United States and Korea?
• The Outsourcing of Torture: “Extraordinary rendition” still shrouded in secrecy
• “Enforced disappearances” convention: A casualty of the war on terror?
• A better definition for “crime of aggression”?
• Food safety: Weaknesses abroad and at home
• The world’s first publicly-held law firm: Opportunities and dilemmas
• Ethiopia v. Starbucks: A brewing trademark dispute?
• Hitting the pocketbooks of human rights abusers?
• Law of the Sea Treaty: Sink or swim?
• Flying in more competitive skies? The Open Skies Agreement
   

Spring 2007 Contents: Volume 9, Issue 2 (1.39 MB in PDF format)

• A New System of Law and Order in the “War on Terror”
• Will the new national space policy lead to weapons in space?
• Judgment at Baghdad: Justice served or a miscarriage of justice?
• UN Peacekeeping: Possible adjustments in the face of continuing limitations?
• Federal Internet gambling ban: A bluff or ace in the hole?
• Cybercrime Convention: A threat to criminals and individual privacy?
• International Criminal Court: The First Case
• Double jeopardy facing jeopardy in England?
• Taxation without representation in the nation’s capital
• Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
• Terrorist and legal blacklist?
• Is the Human Rights Council breaking with its past?
• Does membership have its rewards? Reforming the IMF
• A better way to regulate toxic chemicals?
• Will a new convention improve the intercountry adoption process?
• Disabling discrimination against the disabled?
• A SWIFT way to combat terrorism?
• Global trade negotiations back on track?
• Stare decisis in the making?
• WTO: Summaries of decisions: Hundreds of pages condensed into one

Fall 2006 Contents: (NEW DESIGN!) Volume 9, Issue 1 (1.95 MB in PDF format)

• No Investigation of Coalition Forces in Iraq
• Bolivia: A Lot of Gas for Partial Takeover?
• More Limits on Conducting the “War on Terror”?
• Enforcing Your Right to Contact a Consulate?
• More Scrutiny for Foreign Investors?
• Programmers to Receive Benefits
• A Lumbering Trade Dispute Ends
• Antartica a Foreign Country? It Depends.
• Tracking Your Cybersteps in Europe
• Insult Laws Still Threatening Basic Liberties?
• Lack of Hospitality in Mexico City?
• Global Trade Talks Suspended
• Membership Obligations v. Arab-Israeli Conflict
• New Human Rights Body and Its Membership
• United Nations: Curbing the Right to Bear Arms?
• Human Trafficking Concerns
• Giving Security to Securities
• Touch a Bridge and Stay in the U.S.?
• Fourth Strike Against Byrd Amendment

Spring 2006 Contents: Volume 8, Issue 2 (591 KB in PDF format)

• United States/EU: An agreement to wine about?
• WTO: First decision on "Frankenfood"
• Doha trade talks: Putting off hard decisions
• UN: Defender of endangered cultures?
• Delicate situation for caviar
• Stopping child sex abuse via Foreign Commerce Clause
• WTO: Soda tax goes flat
• United States: Still master of the Internet domain?
• Affordable medicines for poor nations?
• UN: Cloning around for a treaty?
• Final exhale for global warming treaty?
• Limiting Guantanamo detainees' access to courts?
• UN: Old human rights group with new face?
• C.V. Starr Lecture I: "A Colloquy Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the United States Court of International Trade" with Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. (Senior Judge, United States Court of International Trade); Andreas F. Lowenfeld (Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law); Amelia Porges (Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP); and Barbara S. Williams (Attorney-in-Charge, International Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice) (February 22, 2006)
• C.V. Starr Lecture II: "Trade in Services in the Doha Round" with Christine Bliss, Acting Assistant United States Trade Representative for Services and Investment, Office of the United States Trade Representative (March 22, 2006)
• The 2006 Otto L. Walter Lecture: "Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism" with Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, and one of America's best-known and well-respected First Amendment attorneys (April 5, 2006)

Fall 2005 Contents: Volume 8, Issue 1 (931 KB in PDF format)

• Interpreting the U.S. Constitution via International Law?
• Legal Efforts Against Terrorist Financing: Opportunities and Obstacles
• The United Nations in Control of the Internet
• Implosion of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
• End of the European Union Constitution?
• Law School: A cure for foreign competition?
• While the U.S. barely passes the Central American Free Trade Agreement ...
• ... the outcome of ongoing WTO talks remains uncertain
• Undermining the Kyoto Protocol?
• A WTO open to the public?
• C.V. Starr Lecture I: "China's Place in World Trade and Finance" with Robert L. Howse, Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School (November 9, 2005)
• C.V. Starr Lecture II: "Legitimacy through Law in China" with Benjamin L. Liebman, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School (November 16, 2005)

Spring 2005 Contents: Volume 7, Issue 2 (584 KB in PDF format)

• Can editing be a threat to national security?
• Are global counterfeiting and piracy unstoppable?
• Report: How to build a more effective United Nations
• The WTO 10-year review: A world trading system in peril?
• Equal protection for Florida orange juice?
• Short breaths for global warming treaty?
• Selling an EU constitution to a skeptical public
• Bittersweet ending for sugar subsidies?
• The end of a long-running WTO tax dispute?
• C.V. Starr Lecture I: "The Making of the Interim Iraqi Constitution" with speaker Dr. Feisal al-Istrabadi, Ambassador, Iraqi Mission to the United Nations (February 23, 2005)
• C.V. Starr Lecture II: "Restructuring Iraq's Debt" with speaker Lee C. Buchheit, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, which represents Iraq in the restructuring of its debt (March 30, 2005)
• C.V. Starr Lecture III: "Iraq and the Shaping of a State Media Policy" with Monroe E. Price, Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, Cardozo Law School (April 6, 2005)
• The 2005 Otto L. Walter Lecture: "Rethinking the War on Terror" with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (April 20, 2005)

Fall 2004 Contents: Volume 7, Issue 1 (1.04 MB in PDF format)

• The War on Terror: Balancing National Security and Civil Liberties
• Outsourcing Backlash? Will Efforts to Keep Jobs at Home Violate the U.S. Constitution and International Law? Assistant Trial Attorney, International Crim
• Alumna Profile: Roberta Baldini '94, Assistant Trial Attorney, International Criminal Tribune for Rwanda
• Global trade talks back on track
• One-sentence curb on human rights abuses
• Cotton no longer king at the WTO?
• Open and shut: First WTO case against China
• International high stakes poker?
• An exception to an exception
• International Law Career Panel (October 13, 2004)
• C.V. Starr Lecture I: "Nation Building and Exporting the Rule of Law: Lessons from Russia and Egypt" with speaker Richard P. Bernard, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, New York Stock Exchange (November 3, 2004)
• C.V. Starr Lecture II: "Bringing Human Rights Home: International Human Rights Principles and Women's Rights in the U.S." with speaker Kathy Rodgers, President, Legal Momentum (the new name of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) (November 10, 2004)
• C.V. Starr Lecture III: "Whose Disclosure Laws Ought to Apply to Cross-Border Securities Transactions?" with Merritt B. Fox (Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law), Columbia Law School (November 17, 2004)

Spring 2004 Contents: Volume 6, Issue 2 (727 KB in PDF format)

• An International Bankruptcy Plan for Countries in Financial Difficulty?
• Alumna Profile: Ms. Saori Kilthau '00, Senior tax consultant (International Tax Group), Ernst & Young, LLP
• Biosafety Protocol: Impending collision with global trade rules?
• As some trade negotiations hit bumps . . .
• . . . one agreement moves forward to an uncertain future
• Does the WTO say no to drugs?
• Can a global treaty curb corruption?
• Kyoto global warming treaty: Vanishing before our eyes?
• EU: Struggling for a simpler patent system
• Will 2005 bring a new trend in clothing?
• Anti-Tobacco Treaty: Gasping for Breath
• A toxic plan to test everyday chemicals?
• Will the WTO create higher deficits in the US?
• The 2004 Otto L. Walter Lecture: "The First Steps of the International Criminal Court" with Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo (March 24, 2004)
• A C.V. Starr Lecture: "Moving Beyond 'Drugs and Thugs': A New Strategy for the Andean Region" with the Honorable John G. Heimann, Co-Chair, Center for Preventive Action Commission, Council on Foreign Relations (March 31, 2004)

Fall 2003 Contents: Volume 6, Issue 1 (659 KB in PDF format)

• Does the World Need a Global Registry to Protect Geographical Food Names?
• Globalization Meets the First Amendment: Do Multinational Corporations have a Right to Free Speech?
• Alumnus Profile: Seth Cohen, Captain, United States Army, Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, Camp Zama (Japan)
• The Alien Tort Claims Act: A One-Sentence Sling-Shot against Corporate Goliaths?
• WTO in Cancun: No Party in Vacation Capital
• A United Europe under a Single Constitution?
• SARS: Another Blow to the World Economy?
• Breaking the Bank? Rebuilding Iraq's Financial System
• International Law Career Panel (October 2, 2003)
• The C.V. Starr Lecture: "Borders Beyond Control: Thoughts on Immigration Policy for the 21st Century" with lecturer Jagdish Bhagwati (October 23, 2003)

Spring 2003 Contents: Volume 5, Issue 2 (441 KB in PDF format)

• Corporate Governance: A Thread Unraveling Throughout the Global Economy?
• Alumnus Profile: Edward Okeke, Legal Officer, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Paris, France)
• A Bigger and Stronger European Union?
• Biotech Debate Meets Real-World Starvation
• Zombies in Japan's Banking System?
• International Trade to Become Less Taxing?
• US to WTO: Don't Tell Us How to Spend our Money
• A C.V. Starr Symposium: Corporate Governance in the United States and Europe: An Emerging Consensus or Growing Disparity? (March 25, 2003)
• The 2003 Otto L. Walter Lecture: The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization: A Discussion with a Former Chairman of the Appellate Body (April 8, 2003)
• The C.V. Starr Lecture: The Regulation of Foreign Lawyers in New York: Former New York Court of Appeals Judge Howard A. Levine (April 22, 2003)

Fall 2002 Contents: Volume 5, Issue 1 (681 KB in PDF format)

• Adjusting the Backbone of International Trade: Should the WTO Reform its Dispute Settlement Rules?
• Uncle Sam v. the European Union: Averting Trade Wars Between the Two Titans
• Alumnae Profile: 1996 Evening Division student, New York City-based international law firm (Frankfurt, Germany, office)
• A Concise Guide to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
• Bush: I've Got My Authority Back
• Once a Monk, Now WTO Chief
• You've Got Copyright Protection, Babe!
• Next WTO Meeting in Vacation Capital
• Don't Bank on China's Banking System
• Batting .900 at WTO, But Taking a Really Big Strike
• Steel: Embracing Protectionism to Promote Trade?
• "Axis of Evil" Plenty of Other Opportunities
• Russia: We're Still a Contender

Spring 2002 Contents: Volume 4, Issue 2 (563 KB in PDF format)

• NAFTA: Compensating Business for the Inconvenience of Protecting Public Welfare?
• In the Wake of September 11: Our Economy and the World
• WTO to Begin New Trade Round: "A Perfect Balance of Unhappiness"
• Alumnae Profile: K. Elizabeth Ryder, International Legal Development consultant
• Anthrax Scare Helps Clarify WTO Intellectual Property Rules
• Welcome to the Club: China's 16-year Quest Ends
• Hello, Euro! So long to francs, guilders, liras, pesetas . .
• A $4 Billion Defeat that Won't Go Away
• The 2002 Otto L. Walter Lecture: "Multidisciplinary Practice and the European Court of Justice" by Anthony Huydecoper, Advocate-General of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (March 7, 2002)

Fall 2001 Contents: Volume 4, Issue 1 (407 KB in PDF format)

• The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas: Is free trade possible in the post-Seattle world?
• The World Trade Organization and Intellectual Property Rights: Obstacles or Innovators in the Fight Against AIDS?
• Trouble at the Border: Is NAFTA opening roads to unsafe trucks?
• Alumnus Profile: James H. Rodgers, L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, L.L.P.
• A Concise Guide to Major Trade Agreements
• Global Trade Round-up
• Center for International Law Symposium: "The Greening of the World Trade Organization?" (October 3, 2001)
• International Law Career Panel (October 4, 2001)

Spring 2001 Contents: Volume 3, Issue 2 (339 KB in PDF format)

• Unequal in an Organization of Equals? Developing Countries and the WTO
• What Prevents Labor Abuses Abroad? A Voluntary Code of Conduct
• Signs of a Greener WTO?
• Alumnae Profile: Liliana Correia, Zurich Financial Services
• President Bush's Cabinet Officials on International Trade and Finance
• NYLS Wins Award at Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
• The 2001 Otto L. Walter Lecture: "A Lawyer Has an Obligation: Pro Bono and the Legal Profession" by Evan A. Davis, President, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (April 10, 2001)
• International Business and Tax Law: A New Curriculum at NYLS

Fall 2000 Contents: Volume 3, Issue 1 (513 KB in PDF format)

• Balancing Online Privacy v. Global E-Commerce: Does One Threaten the Other?
• China and the WTO: Ready for Each Other?
• How to Join the World Trade Organization
• The Big Stick of US Trade Law Keeps Swinging
• Alumnae Profile: Christina M. Storm, Lawyers Without Borders, Inc.
• US Supreme Court: Burma Law Unconstitutional (also see Fall 1999 newsletter)
• Election 2000: The Presidential Candidates on International Trade and Finance

Spring 2000 Contents: Volume 2, Issue 2 (377 KB in PDF format)

• Genetically Modified: A New Frankenstein or Old Trade Barriers?
• WTO Sidebar: Who decides if you're obeying a final ruling?
• The Talented World Trade Organization: A Cure-All for the World's Problems?
• The WTO's Biggest Case: Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs)
• Alumnae Profile: Darlene Prescott, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
• Burma goes to the High Court after its day with NYLS

Fall 1999 Contents: Volume 2, Issue 1 (282 KB in PDF format)

• 50 Foreign Policies for 50 States? The Massachusetts Burma Law
• Symposium: Should the ABA Approve MDP?
• A Ten-Year Beef: Unfair Trade Ban or Serious Health Concerns?
• Four Steps to a Career in International Law
• Alumnus Profile: Dennis S. Prahl, Ladas & Parry
• Up Close: Journal of International and Comparative Law
• Slipping into a Trade War over Bananas
• Cooling off hot tempers over steel imports
• Center for International Law Trivia

Spring 1999 Contents: Volume 1, Issue 2 (183 KB in PDF format)

• The Trade Fight of the Year Over ... Bananas?
• Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
• International Law Courses Taught by NYLS Faculty
• What's the Problem with Cheap Steel?
• The Euro Makes Its Way into the World Market