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The Strange New World Of United States Export Controls Under The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Joel B. Harris, Jeffrey P. Bialos

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article examines whether the President's reauthorization of the Regulations is within the scope of the authority provided by IEEPA and explores the potential long term consequences of "life under IEEPA" for the United States system of export and boycott-related controls.

Section I analyzes whether the President's emergency powers under the IEEPA permit the maintenance of regulations originally promulgated under a statute that has since lapsed (i.e. the EAA). The Article demonstrates that when Congress promulgated the IEEPA, Congress expressly evinced its intent to give the President broad emergency authority to regulate exports and boycott-related practices during periods of the …