Current Issue

It is an established principle of disaster preparedness that the involvement of local communities in disaster risk reduction and emergency planning processes greatly increases that community’s resilience in the face of natural disasters. Communities often have unique hazards, strengths, internal dynamics and politics, response capabilities, and vulnerabilities that require equally unique emergency preparedness plans that … Read more

International law has long experienced a divide or “schism” between publicand private international law.1 This divide is not only heuristic, it has deeplyconstitutive effects on what is possible in the international landscape. The dividecreates multiple shadow areas in which the private is rendered invisible and cannotbe regulated, or at least not using traditional legal mechanisms.2

When the delegates met in San Francisco in 1945 to form the United Nations,one of their primary objectives in creating the Security Council (SC), as an organ ofthe United Nations (U.N.), was to ensure that the SC was “placed in a position to actquickly and effectively.”1 However, the record of the SC has been a … Read more

In all its forms, human trafficking is the third largest criminal enterprise in the world, generating roughly 150 billion dollars every year and growing rapidly.1 Though there is arguably some dispute about the number of victims of human trafficking and forced labor, the most widely accepted number seems to fall between twenty-one and twenty-seven million … Read more

The core principles of international water law1–equitable and reasonable utili-zation,2 no significant harm,3 and the duty to cooperate–are generally considered tohave customary law status.4 This body of law has played a meaningful role in in-

INTRODUCTION“Trends of events in the international system appear to have clearly estab-lished that developing countries have been placed in a weaker structural position inthe global-economy1 but also tend to be placed in a less dominant position on othervariable indicators”2 of power within the international system, including political,military, and legal.3 Evidence also suggests that the international … Read more

Policy development related to international tax evasion grew substantially in the first decade of this century and has exploded in the years since. A fear that the growing ease of global financial asset movements had increased the number of persons – particularly rich persons – evading home country tax obligations provided an important impetus in … Read more

For approximately two decades, commentators have extensively investigated the production of World Trade Organization (WTO) cases.1 The WTO Dispute Settlement Body has been the central pillar of the WTO system since its establish- ment, because it is the institution within the system that can authorize sanctions for violations of the WTO agreements, but also plays … Read more