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"A Beacon of Service in a Troubled World": Restoring the United Nations' Human Rights Reputation by Standardizing Extradition Practices for Accused Human Traffickers, Brook Whitley

Accessibility in the EdTech Era: The Growth in Implementation of Learning Technologies and the Students Who Are Left Behind, Madeleine Braksick

A Cultural Property Interest: How Indigenous Groups Can Use Tort Law to Repossess Their Artifact, William McGoughran

Adapting Multilateral ISDS Reform to Regional Needs: A Proposal for a Chambers Mechanism, N. Jansen Calamita and Charalampos Giannakopoulos

Addressing the Stale Line of Sports-Betting Behavior: Examining the Economic Shortfalls and Tax Solutions in Legalizing Sports Betting, Peyton Rameas

A Direct Path Should Be Easy to Follow: Reframing the “Direct Effect” Test for Jurisdictional Immunity Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Greggory Cashmark

Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction--Tort Claims Not Within Admiralty Jurisdiction Unless Requisite Maritime Nexus Exists

A Dose of Accountability: Fixing Treaty Enforcement to Combat State Complicity in Transnational Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking, Caitlin Sharma

Advancing International Commercial Arbitration in India: Insights from Singapore and Japan, Sagnik Sengupta

Advocating for Adoptions in Al Hol: How Intercountry Adoptions Could Ensure the Safety of a Generation of Lost Children, Jill Boggs

A Fear About Holistic Justice, Farhang Heydari

A Multicultural Mosaic: Stillbirth and Healing Among Asian Women, Ederlina Co

Analysis of Environmental Law Scholarship 2023-2024, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Chloe C. Allen, Linda K. Breggin, and Sydney C. Schoonover

A New U.S. Strategy to Combat Indonesia's Agricultural Trade Barriers Notes from the 2024 Symposium, Daniel C.K. Chow

Anti-Holistic Algorithms, Itay Ravid

A "Profoundly Contractarian Predisposition": Delaware Courts Decide Recent Drafting Disputes by Limiting Their Review to Four Corners of Contracts, Robert S. Reder and Kathleen E. Sharkey

Artificial Intellectual Property, Daniel J. Gervais

Artificial Personhood: The Implications of Recognizing the Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligence, Daniel C. Borges

Band-Aid Over a Bullet Hole: The Lack of Mental Health Care in Women’s Prisons and the Culture That Perpetuates It., Deborah, Julie, Karli Tellis, Misty, Olivia Hatch, and Sara Manian

Beyond Autonomy: Rethinking Deception in Sexual Assault Law, Marie Manikis

Beyond Redemption?: Examining the Sixth Circuit’s Dangerousness Approach for As-Applied Challenges to the Felon-in-Possession Ban, Jack Baker

Book Review: How Nations Behave, Alfred P. Rubin

Book Reviews: The Lawyer and His Community, Elliott E. Cheatham

Building a Long Text Privacy Policy Corpus with Multi-Class Labels, David Stein and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler

Can A UN Protectorate Provide Resolution to Haitian Instability?, Andrew Wickes

Chancery Court Applies Entire Fairness Standard of Review in Assessing Actions of Conflicted Fiduciaries Engaging in "Value-Destructive" SPAC Transactions, Robert S. Reder and John Rand Dorney

Chancery Court Declares Corwin Unavailable to Defend Against Unocal Claim for Injunctive Relief, Robert S. Reder and Kathleen E. Sharkey

Chancery Court Demonstrates Willingness to Apply Context-Specific Tests in Assessing Challenges to Advance Notice Bylaws, Robert S. Reder and Noah Nance

Chancery Court Enjoins Board Reduction Scheme Aimed at Derailing Election Contest, Robert S. Reder and Swayam Siddha Nanda

Chancery Court Rejects Argument That Corwin Is Inapplicable to Post-Signing Board, Robert S. Reder and Jonathan Rose

Chancery Court Rules that DGCL § 271 Does Not Require Stockholder Approval of Foreclosure Sale of Corporate Assets, Robert S. Reder and Emily Batuner

Chancery Court Rules That Legacy Charter Provision Governing Amendments Did Not Opt Out of Revised DGCL § 242(d)’s Lower Voting Standard for Increasing Authorized Shares, Robert S. Reder and Joshua Hiero

Checkmate: Corner Crossing and Opening up Public Land in the United States, Ryan M. Jones

China's Approach to the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Mechanism and Its International Legality, Songling Yang

Climbing up the Critical Mineral Value Chains: The Global South and Green Industrialization in an Era of Disruption, Mandy Meng Fang

Closing the Asylum Gender Gap: Why "Afghan Women" Is a Compelling Particular Social Group, Mackenzie Heinrichs

Conceptualizing "Systemically Important Technological Institutions" as Too Big to Fail Entities: Moving the Insolvency Goal Post, M. P. Ram Mohan and Sai Muralidhar K.

Considerations for a Middle Eastern Convention to Ensure the Human Rights of Regional Refugees, Connor Rasmussen

Contracting around Treaties, Aaron Simowitz

Controlling the Narrative: Copyright’s Derivative Rights Doctrine & Semiotic Disobedience in the Age of AI, John Tehranian

Copyrighting Nature, Cathay Y. N. Smith

Corporate Purpose beyond Borders: A Key to Saving Our Planet or Colonialism Repackaged?, Roza Nurgozhayeva and Dan W. Puchniak

Criminal Punishment as a Human Right?, Saira Mohamed

Cross-Border Cyber Operations: Targeting Healthcare as Unlawful Intervention in the Affairs of States, Priya Urs

Crypto Exchanges in Market Regulation, Yesha Yadav

CVSG in Chabad v. Russian Federation: Another Question of Foreign State Immunity, Ingrid Wuerth Brunk

Cybersecurity Risk Shifting, Deborah R. Farringer

Data Portability Revisited: Toward the Human-Centric, AI-Driven Data Ecosystems of Tomorrow, Mark Fenwick Professor of International Business Law, Michael Fertik Managing Partner, Paulius Jurcys Senior Lecturer, and Timo Minssen Professor of Law

Data without Borders: International Effects of Data Flow Regulation, Tamar Giladi Shtub and Michal S. Gal

Delaware Superior Court Establishes “Order of Operations” for Applying “Materiality Scrapes” to Post-Closing Indemnity Claims, Robert S. Reder and Jessica Fuchs-Shafer

Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for Advance Notice Bylaw, Robert S. Reder and Noah Nance

Delaware Supreme Court Rules That Officer Exculpation Amendments Do Not Require Separate Class Vote of Non-Voting Shares, Robert S. Reder and Ricky Bayon-Barrera

Domestic Stability and International Trade Order, Sannoy Das

Do Representative Payments Matter?, Brian T. Fitzpatrick and Colton Cronin

Dual-Class Contracting--A Response to Roberto Tallarita, Brian Broughman

Economic Sanctions: Food and Conflict Regions Remarks, Jonathan C. Poling

Ethical sourcing in the context of health data supply chain management: a value sensitive design approach, Camille Nebeker EdD, MS; Ellen Wright Clayton; and et al.

“External Restraints” on Article II?, Elias Neibart

Extraterritoriality in AI: Harmonizing the Digital Market Act and US Antitrust Law, Daniel Goicouria

Filling the Sackett Gap: the Private Governance Option, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Elodie O. Currier Stoffel, and Steph Tai

Finding a New Enforcer: Combatting International Corporate Tax Avoidance with Multinational Organizations, Ryan McNicholas

Foreword: Raising Our Voices, Together, Lauren Sudeall

Forging Alliances: Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, and a Shared Vision for Reproductive Freedom, Greer Donley

Fragmentation in Global Climate Governance: What Lessons from COVID-19?, Sivan Shlomo Agnon

From Guns to Scalpels: Reproductive Violence and the (In)Visibility of Non-Lethal Genocidal Acts, Anthony Ghaly

From Local Adaptation to Global Mitigation: How Improving Food Security by Building Local Resilience Can Help Limit Climate Change, Ore Koren and Gustavo Torrens

From Surplus to Sustenance: Confronting Food Waste to Uphold the Right to Food, Emily M. Broad Leib and Noelle Musolino

Furtherance or Failure of Justice: Felony Murder Framework in Tennessee, Anokhi Patel, Erika, Joelyn Onyekachi, Meleah, Oluwafunmilayo Oguns, Vernice, and Erin Melton

Genocide Against Armenians in 2023 Expert Opinion, Luis Moreno Ocampo

Governing complexity: A comparative assessment of four governance models with applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, and Lance Gunderson

Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause, Mark Storslee and Michael Helfand

Great Power Competition and the Effects of Global Fragmentation on International Law, Bryan H. Druzin

Guns for Hire, States in Ruin: An International Regulatory Framework to Combat the Exploitation of Weak States by Private Military Companies, Joshua Hiero

Here, There, and Absent from the Film: Carving Out a Protection for Trailers in California’s Anti-SLAPP Statute, Zach Cogan

Holistic Criminal Justice, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg

How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States, J. B. Ruhl and David J. Hess

Implementing Climate Remedies, Camila Bustos

Improving Distributional Analysis in Regulatory Evaluation: An Assessment of the 2023 Circular A-4, W. Kip Viscusi, A. Fraas, John D. Graham, Kerry Krutilla, Randall Lutter, and Jason F. Shogren

Independent Directors and Board Control in Venture Finance, Brian Broughman

Information for Environmental Governance: The Value of State of the Environmental Reports in a Polarized Era, Michael Vandenbergh, M. Caballero, and Ethan I. Thorpe

Institutional Metaphors and the Meta Oversight Board, Tao Huang

International Economic Law in the Era of Great Power Rivalry, Ming Du

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Europe Must Work Together to Solve Its Impending Water Crisis, Vann Buchanan

Is There Life in the Ruins? A Look at Post-Sveen Contract Clause Jurisprudence, James W. Ely, Jr.

It's My Data and I'll Protect It If I Want to: A Proposal to Standardize Biometric Data Privacy Laws between the United States and European Union, Haley Rubin

Justice Citizenship, Lauren Sudeall

“Justice of Our Own”: Defining Success at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Peter Dixon

Justice Through Proximity: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications of Collaborative Justice, Federica Coppola and Jarrell E. Daniels

Justifying the Fourth Amendment, Daniel Epps

Kelsenian Originalism in Europe, Graziella Romeo and Andrea Pin

Killing the WTO, Katayoon Beshkardana

Language, Law, and Wealth Destruction in Puerto Rico, Scott M. Brown and Daniel J. Hall

Law and Industrial Policy: The East Asian Experience, James Si Zeng

Lender Liability and Arbitration: Preserving the Fabric of Relationship

Let’s Break Chains: Ending Solitary Confinement in Prisons, Charlotte Kim

Limiting Inconsistencies in Legal Languages, Sarah B. Lawsky

Long-Term Consumer Welfare, Rebecca Haw Allensworth

Making the New Public Safety Safe, Christopher Slobogin

Manufacturing Accountability: Towards Executive Adjudication of Foreign Workplace Injuries, Jake Goodman-Palmer

MFW Defense Available despite Control Stockholder's Refusal to Negotiate with Credible Competing Bidder, Robert S. Reder

Monopolizing The Harvest: Corporate Influence and Regulatory Gaps in Global Seed Governance, Mia Mahmudur Rahim

Moral Hazard in International Economic Law, Zachary Mollengarden

Much Ado About Critical Race Theory, Matthew Patrick Shaw

Nationally Determined Contributions Post-Global Stocktake: The Making of Prescribed Qualified Unilateral Acts in International Law, Petra Minnerop

Non-State Sanctions: Private Instruments of International Law, Ali Hakim and Matei Alexianu

Open Secrets, Robin Feldman and Vaughn Goehrig

Opting Out of Court? Reputation and Informal Norms in Private Equity, Kobi Kastiel and Yaron Nili

Patent Law's Trade Remedy, Michael L. Doane

Patients Versus Profits, David A. Simon

Plan-B Activist Defense: Defending Animal-Rights Activists in Courtrooms Hostile to Political Argumentation, Hadar Aviram

Potential Impact of Recent Cartel Designations, Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Pre-Legislative Indigenous Consultation, Erick Guapizaca Jiménez

Presentation to the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, Jeffrey Bellin

Presidential Immunity: Before and After Trump, Thomas P. Schmidt

Procedural Sovereign Distinction, Haley S. Anderson

Proving the Future in Criminal Cases, Christopher Slobogin

Putting Police Body-Worn Camera Footage to Work: A Civil Liberties Evaluation of Truleo's AI Analytics Platform, Farhang Heydari, Max Isaacs, Katie Kinsey, Barry Friedman, Christopher Slobogin, and Alissa M. Heydari

Putting Police Body-Worn Camera Footage to Work: A Civil Liberties Evaluation of Truleo's AI Analytics Platform, Christopher Slobogin, Farhang Heydari, Max Isaacs, Katie Kinsey, Barry Friedman, and Alissa Marque Heydari

Reading American Anarchy as a Legal History of Immigrants: Forum on Willrich's American Anarchy Forum: Willrich's American Anarchy, Daniel J. Sharfstein

Recent Development: Foreign Sovereign Immunity, Jere Geiger Thompson

Recommendations for Returning Genomic Incidental Findings? We Need to Talk!, Ellen Wright Clayton, Wylie Burke, Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, and et al.

Reconceiving Safety Regulation for AI and ML Medical Software, Barbara J. Evans, Eric S. Rosenthal, and Azra Bihorac

Reconciling Regulatory Impact Analyses and Agencies, Sydney C. Schoonover and W. Kip Viscusi

Regulating Business and Human Rights through Soft and Hard Law: Lessons from International Nuclear Law, Christiane Ahlborn

Regulatory Settlement, Stare Decisis, and Loper Bright, Lisa Schultz Bressman and Kevin M. Stack

Rehabilitation in Name Only: Structural and Procedural Failures in Tennessee’s Parole System, Laney Quickel, Ashia Davis, Kresha Patel, Michelle, Camillia, and Sherra

Reproductive Justice, Law & Stillbirth, Kimberly Mutcherson

Responsive Democracy and the Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin

Russia in the United Nations Security Council: Charter Principles and Credentials Procedure, Thomas D. Grant

Safeguarding Public Pensioner Standing After Thole, Evelyn L. Stein

Self-Defense without Overreach: How Status of Forces Agreements Address the Legal Gaps in Article 51, Alexis Shaw

Situating Stillbirth Within a Reproductive Justice Methodology Amidst Perilous Politics, Jamie R. Abrams

Standardization and Routine in Criminal Law, Eric S. Fish

Statutes Saving Statues: A Proposal to Reform U.S. Customs Laws to Better Protect Cultural Property, Brianne Seaberg

Statutory Contracts, Jeff Gordon

Stick-Based Approach to Human Rights Protection: Are Unilateral Export Controls the Right Answer?, Alexandr Svetlicinii and Xueji Su

Stillbirth, Health Disparities, and Risk, Elizabeth Kukura

Stillbirth & the Law: A Brief Reply to Responses, Jill Wieber Lens

Stop Blaming Foreigners for Your Housing Market: Why Prohibitions against Foreign Property Ownership Won't Solve the Global Housing Crisis, Nair M. Banks

Stuck between Interlocking Rings: Efforts to Resolve the Conflicting Demands Placed on Olympic National Governing Bodies, Marcia B. Nelson

The Admissibility of Evidence Procured by Illegal Search: Scotland, Zelman Cowen

The Carceral State, the Criminalization of Black Thought and Behavior, and Its Effects on the Black Community and Black Art, Sydney Stewart

The Expansion of US Dollar-Based Sanctions, Christina Abely

The Future of Crypto-Asset Regulation Under WTO Law, Ines Willemyns

The Hyper-Unitary Executive: Lessons from a Backsliding Democracy, Doruk Erhan

The International Copyright System and Development: The Role of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Faith O. Majekolagbe

The Lawyer's Duties and Responsibilities in the Nuclear Age, Leo A. Huard

The Moral Boundary of the Firm, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jane E. Miller, Margaret Blair, and Jonathan M. Gilligan

The Need for a Sentencing “Second Look” Statute in Tennessee, Alisha, Bershia, Lindsey, Rhyma Asim, Cassandra Berice, and Kyle Smith

The Network Effects of International Crypto and DLT Regulation, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky

The New Atrocity in International Law, Natalie R. Davidson

The Privacy Law Jigsaw: Piecing Together Legal Compliance When Pieces Don’t Fit, Roy Wyman and Wesley McCulloch

The Reasonable Officer and the Disabled Subject, Jamelia N. Morgan

The Scientific Border: DNA Testing for Family Reunification, Alexa Greco

The Sheriff's Constitution, Farhang Heydari

The Silent Price of Artificial Intelligence: Labor and Personal Jurisdiction in the Global South, Theophilus Edwin Coleman

Through the Garden, across the Pond, and beyond: Comparing Noncompetes with Garden Leave and Trade Secret Law, Kathleen Fink

Tides and Crossroads: The Gender Era of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Rosa Celorio

Torts Mismatches, Edward K. Cheng

Toward a South African Fair Use Standard, Taysir Awad

Transforming the World with Reparations, Ingrid Wuerth Brunk and Monica Hakimi

TRIPS at Thirty: The Evolving Interactional Law of Public Health Exceptions to Intellectual Property Protection, Geraldo Vidigal and Pramiti Parwani

Turning the Tide: Reforming Western Water Law in the Age of AI Infrastructure, Rhyma Asim

Two Kinds of Dual States: Judicial Empowerment and Disempowerment in Authoritarian Politics, Zhiyu Li

Ultra-Slow Responses to the Ultra-Fast Fashion Problem: Combatting Forced Labor in the Global Apparel Industry with Due Diligence and Customs Regulations, Cameron Watts

Uncharted Waters: Barriers to Ocean Carbon Removal in the High Seas Under UNCLOS and the BBNJ, Connor Stevens

Using the Transmission Grid to Make “Second Best” Decarbonization Better, Jim Rossi

Valuing Heat-Related Mortality Risks, W. Kip Viscusi and Clayton J. Masterman

Viscusi Circular A-4 Peer Review Comments, W. Kip Viscusi

Voyage of Injustice: The Socioeconomic Exploitation in the Cruise Industry, Tarissa L. Peterson

Waiting for Godot: Thinking About Criminal Law After Mass Incarceration, Jonathan Simon

What We Can Glean from the Book of Ruth: A Novel Approach to Keeping the Schoolhouse Doors Open to All Children, Summer Basham Todd

When Detention Becomes a Death Sentence: The Urgent Need for Greater Due Process Protections for ICE Detainees, Kyle J. Smith

When Open-Source Information Backfires: Satellite Imagery and Privacy Breaches, Matin Pedram, Siena Chandler, and Eugenia Georgiades

When Robots Read Westlaw: Linking Inputs and Outputs in Generative AI Fair Use Analysis, Aaron Lam

When the Purse Strings Paint the Picture: Executive Overreach and Censorship in Federal Arts Funding, Megan Brown

Who's Afraid of Copyright and AI?, Deborah R. Gerhardt