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The Tattered Tapestry Of International Law, William Aceves
The Tattered Tapestry Of International Law, William Aceves
William Aceves
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Economic Analysis Of International Law: Transaction Cost Economics And The Concept Of State Practice , William Aceves
Economic Analysis Of International Law: Transaction Cost Economics And The Concept Of State Practice , William Aceves
William Aceves
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Symposium Introduction: Scholarship As Evidence Of International Law, William Aceves
Symposium Introduction: Scholarship As Evidence Of International Law, William Aceves
William Aceves
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Institutionalist Theory And International Legal Scholarship, William Aceves
Institutionalist Theory And International Legal Scholarship, William Aceves
William Aceves
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America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions Of Power And Community, Robert Tsai
America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions Of Power And Community, Robert Tsai
Robert L Tsai
The U.S. Constitution opens by proclaiming the sovereignty of all citizens: "We the People." Robert Tsai's gripping history of alternative constitutions invites readers into the circle of those who have rejected this ringing assertion--the defiant groups that refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "the people" are and how their authority should be exercised. America's Forgotten Constitutions is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists. Beginning in the nineteenth century, Tsai chronicles eight episodes in which discontented citizens took the extraordinary step of drafting a new constitution. He examines …
The Judicial Expansion Of American Exceptionalism, Rachel Lopez
The Judicial Expansion Of American Exceptionalism, Rachel Lopez
Rachel E. López
In the modern era, there is a growing sentiment that when the gravest human rights violations occur, the international community has a “responsibility to protect” the victims if the victims’ own government is unwilling or unable to do so. While much of the scholarship on the responsibility to protect focuses on the international community’s ability to engage in military intervention, the doctrine actually provides a menu of options that intervening States can employ to prevent serious abuses of human rights, including, notably for the purposes of this article, legal accountability in judicial fora. States thus have greater latitude than ever …