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Ai Regulation Across Borders: Legal Challenges And Prospects For International Cooperation, Alex Whaples

San Diego International Law Journal

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has fueled international calls for a comprehensive regulatory framework to balance innovation with the protection of fundamental rights. This analysis examines the diverse AI governance strategies of four key jurisdictions—the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, the United States, and China—highlighting their strengths, limitations, and ideological differences. It explores the complexities of crafting an international AI treaty, including challenges related to enforcement mechanisms, regulatory burdens on developers, and ideological divides between Western democracies and China. To navigate these challenges, fostering global cooperation and ensuring accountability without stifling innovation is essential. By leveraging existing …

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San Diego International Law Journal

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Labor Rights Under The Usmca: Progress, Shortcomings, And The Road Ahead, Ruby Carlon

San Diego International Law Journal

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) introduced the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRLM) to strengthen labor rights enforcement in North American trade. While the mechanism marks a significant departure from NAFTA’s weaker labor provisions, its implementation has revealed systemic shortcomings. The RRLM relies on voluntary compliance, lacks binding remediation requirements, and has an underutilized panel review process, limiting its effectiveness. Economic asymmetry between the United States and Mexico further complicates enforcement, as Mexico bears a disproportionate burden despite having fewer resources to uphold labor standards. Additionally, corporate accountability remains elusive, with companies facing no direct obligations to integrate USMCA labor commitments …

Breaking The Vial: Leveraging North American Regulatory Models And Market Practices To Reform Insulin Pricing In The United States, Chloe Mietzel

San Diego International Law Journal

The high cost of insulin in the United States is driven by restrictive patent protections, trade secret barriers, regulatory inefficiencies, and anticompetitive practices that limit biosimilar competition. While Canada and Mexico have adopted policies that facilitate market entry and government price negotiations, the United States remains constrained by a regulatory framework that prioritizes exclusivity over affordability. Incremental reforms—such as limiting patent extensions, expediting biosimilar approval, increasing pricing transparency, and strengthening antitrust enforcement —could significantly lower costs and expand access. Previous legislative efforts, including the Inflation Reduction Act, have taken steps toward reform, but broader regulatory restructuring is necessary to ensure …

Navigating Sovereignty And Human Rights: A Legal Analysis Of Palestinian Detention Under Israeli Jurisdiction In Comparison To International Law, Amani Nidal Odeh

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines whether Israeli detention practices of Palestinians conform to or contravene Israeli domestic legislation and international legal standards using a doctrinal legal analysis. This thesis evaluates six key areas through four hypotheses: the detention of minors, geographic disparities (particularly Gaza), administrative detention procedures, the use of military courts, due process violations, and detention conditions. While Israeli domestic law formally authorizes these practices, the analysis finds they routinely violate crucial international legal norms, including the ICCPR, CRC, CAT, and the Fourth Geneva Convention. The use of secret evidence, prolonged administrative detention without trial, and discriminatory legal frameworks undermines the …

Irreparable Harm: How The United States Fails To Remedy Unjust Deportations, Joe Colley

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

When the United States wrongfully deports individuals, the harm is often irreversible. This piece explores the systemic gaps that leave those unjustly deported without meaningful remedies or recourse.

Peach State To Global Debate: Election Technology And Voter Faith, Laura Starling

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

The Coffee County voting data breach highlights vulnerabilities in U.S. election technology—prompting a comparison with global voting systems to identify best practices for restoring public trust in democratic processes.

K-Popopoly: Navigating Antitrust Terrain In South Korea’S Music Markets, Elise Joffe

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

South Korea’s unique blend of Chaebol dominance and a booming K-Pop industry contrasts sharply with U.S. antitrust norms, raising key questions about how competition law adapts across cultures.

Child Rights: Bangladesh’S Obligations Under The Worst Forms Of Child Labor And Minimum Age Conventions, Ella Jones

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

Despite international prohibitions, millions of children in Bangladesh endure exploitative labor in violation of ILO conventions, highlighting the country’s enforcement failures and urgent need for reform.

Will Green Mean “Stop”? Exploring How Combatting The Climate Crisis Impacts On Wto Relevance, Sean Stacy

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

The WTO faces a legitimacy crisis as climate change demands leadership it may be structurally unfit to provide, raising doubts about its future role in global governance.

The Local Impact Of The International Standardization Of Transitional Justice: Lessons From The Ugandan Case, Thomas Hansen

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

This Article examines how international transitional justice (TJ) standardization has influenced Uganda's TJ processes, exploring stakeholder perceptions, local implementation, and its implications for academics, policymakers, and practitioners.

Countries As Laboratories: Reflections On Sierra Leone’S Amended Anti-Human Trafficking Law, Andrea Dennis

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

Sierra Leone’s improved anti-trafficking laws align with global norms, but enforcement remains weak due to socio-economic realities and Western deterrence mismatches, limiting effective prosecution despite recent legislative reforms.

Nourishing The Living Tree: Vincent Macdonald And His Constitutional Thought, Preston Jordan Lim

Faculty Publications

Since the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian judges have increasingly approached the Constitution through a living constitutionalist lens, adapting the Constitution to contemporary realities and treating the text as but one interpretive modality alongside purpose and context. The Supreme Court has rooted this living constitutionalism in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s judgment, Edwards v Attorney General of Canada, wherein Lord Sankey introduced the metaphor of the “living tree.” Justice Robert Sharpe and Professor Patricia McMahon have suggested that the “living tree metaphor remained a forgotten footnote until 1982.” Indeed, more formalist approaches towards …

Mixed Review Of Constitutional Rights In Cuba, Ngoc Son Bui

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

Cuba’s 2019 Constitution and the 2022 Law on the Process of Protection of Constitutional Rights create a mixed model of review. Accordingly, the legislature and the executive review the constitutionality of legislation and regulations, while the courts review the constitutionality of state actions. Synthesizing comparative constitutional law and new institutionalism in political science, this article argues that the mixed constitutional review in Cuba is shaped by different historical influences; competing socialist and liberal ideas and discourse; competing political interests; and competing socialist and universal values. The Cuba experience presents a new hope for other socialist countries like China and Vietnam …

A History Of Post-Roe America And Canada: From Intertwined Abortion Battles To Dobbs, Mugambi Jouet

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

The changing landscape on abortion following Dobbs has not only sparked a vigorous debate in the United States, but also abroad. Its recriminalization in America led to an outcry in peer Western democracies, whose leaders widely condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. Yet the social and historical reasons for this international divide are poorly understood.

This Article sheds light on the question through an in-depth comparison of America and Canada from Roe to Dobbs, as the neighboring nations’ abortion histories have been intertwined in intriguing and overlooked ways. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, …

Re-Envisioning Nuclear Deterrence, Raul (Pete) Pedrozo

International Law Studies

This article examines whether the U.S. nuclear umbrella provided to allies is currently viable and whether it is time for the United States to share nuclear weapons technology with its allies in the Asia-Pacific to counter the growing nuclear threat posed by China, North Korea, and Russia. The article discusses the current capabilities and nuclear doctrine of States possessing nuclear weapons, as well as Iran’s nascent nuclear weapons program. It then discusses the current international law and regulatory regime applicable to nuclear weapons. It analyzes the threats posed by China’s and Russia’s nuclear capabilities, and how they affect U.S. nuclear …

The Play’S The Thing: Hamlet And The Rule Of Law, Aaron Graham Sr.

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

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Are All Criminals The Same? The ‘Ndrangheta & The Penitentiary Law System, Andrea Miceli

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

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Striking A Balance: Teachers’ Strikes In Guyana And The United States, Camilla Leonard, Claire O'Brien

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

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The Housing Crisis In The Republic Of Ireland With A Comparison To Spain’S Housing Crisis, Claire O'Brien

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

No abstract provided.