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Toolkit Or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict, Christie S. Warren

Faculty Publications

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Life In A Sharing Economy: What Airbnb, Turo, And Other Accommodation-Sharing Services Mean For Cities, Zoe Mckenzie

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs

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The African Union-Icc Controversy Before The Icj: A Way Forward To Strengthen International Criminal Justice?, Sascha-Dominick Dov Bachmann, Naa A. Sowatey-Adjei

Washington International Law Journal

The International Criminal Court was set up as a court of last resort to prosecute the most serious crimes under international law when its member states are either unable or unwilling to act. The African Union initially welcomed the court due to the continent’s history of violence and war. However, their soured when the ICC began indicting African heads of state and government officials. Since then, there has been a constant “battle” over whether such defendants could invoke immunity under customary international law. General criticism of the ICC by the African Union and other observers for its lack of focus …

Somalia And Legal Pluralism: Advancing Gender Justice Through Rule Of Law Programming In Times Of Transition, Roison Burke

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

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The Overlapping Web Of Data, Territoriality And Sovereignty, Jennifer Daskal

Contributions to Books

Provides a framework to better understand Global Legal Pluralism and the current international state of law.

Equips practitioners, theorists, and students with deeper insights and analytical tools to describe the conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.

Analyzes global legal pluralism in light of legal theory, constitutionalism, conflict of laws, international law, commercial transactions, and as it affects indigenous polities, religious orders, and citizenship.

Brexit, The Misrepresentation Of Democracy, And The Rock Of Gibraltar, James J. Friedberg

Law Faculty Scholarship

This short essay makes three points regarding Brexit that have not been widely considered in public or academic debate. First, Brexit advocates (Leavers) successfully misrepresented the referendum of June 2016 as a definitive expression of democratic will. (“The people have spoken.”) The slim majority result was less than such an expression, particularly because it ignored intercommunal and intergenerational democratic values—most profoundly, overriding clear majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland which had voted to remain in the EU. Second, even though within a year of that referendum, a majority of Britons (Remainers) had come to oppose Brexit, political leadership among the …

Bankruptcy Tourism And The European Union’S Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral In Another Light, Samir D. Parikh

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law

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Going Bare In The Law Of Assignments: When Is An Assignment Champertous?, Anthony Sebok

FIU Law Review

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