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  • 24 Jun 2026
    Natalie Klein, Kate Purcell, Jack McNally

    Submarines Cannot Escape the Reach of International Law

    Among the many different ways that humans interact with the ocean, submarine operations are instrumental in furthering those activities. Submarines are deployed in scientific exploration, seabed exploitation, the development of critical infrastructure and criminal activities. Above all, submarines hold military and strategic significance for States and their navies. Yet the regulation of submarines under international […]

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  • 23 Jun 2026
    Deborah Mayersen

    Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach

    How do we prevent genocide? The modern world has been plagued with this ‘crimes of crimes’, that has claimed many millions of lives over the past century or more. In 1948, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the international community committed to preventing genocide through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of […]

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  • 23 Jun 2026
    Shahla F. Ali

    Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Assessing the Development of Dispute Prevention Mechanisms in Infrastructure Financing

    While infrastructure development has long been associated with social progress, economic development and advanced living standards, it has likewise given rise to challenges including disruption, environmental harm and inequity. On the one hand, infrastructure development has been described as presenting both ‘immaterial ideals and material notions necessary to change the world’.[1] It speaks to both […]

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  • 17 Jun 2026
    Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

    International Leviathans: Practices of Sovereignty by International Administrations

    Calls to establish international administrations have been made in numerous contemporary contexts, including Afghanistan, the Congo, Haiti, Kosovo, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste or Yemen. More recently, they have been made in the context of the war in the Middle East (to “administer” Palestine) or in the Ukraine. Some of these projects […]

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  • 18 May 2026
    Cover of One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence
    Carlton F. W. Larson

    The History of the Declaration of Independence

    This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. Few documents in world history have been as extensively studied and analyzed, and it is fair to ask if there is anything new to be said about the Declaration. There certainly is. Much of the scholarly and popular writing on the Declaration has […]

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  • 12 May 2026
    Cover of Lawmaking under Authoritarianism
    Emilia Simison, Alejandro Bonvecchi

    Legislating with the autocrat?

    In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this regime, the bill was duly presented to the Legislative Advisory Commission, a legislative body created by the dictatorship and staffed by military officers. The provincial governors, who were also appointed […]

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  • 30 Apr 2026
    Cover of American Factions: How the U.S. Constitution Can End Extreme Partisanship by James L. Huffman
    James L. Huffman

    How the U.S. Constitution Can End Extreme Partisanship

    American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate.  The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the objective of controlling both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Embracing the simplistic idea that the majority rules, the prevailing party then governs with little regard for the interests of the minority party […]

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  • 15 Apr 2026
    Kimberly A. Yuracko

    Sex and Sports: Transgender Rights and the Culture War Over Girls’ Sports

    In recent years, few issues have been as socially and politically fraught and divisive as the question of whether transgender girls should be permitted to participate in girls’ sports. In the United States, the political left and right have staked out opposite though equally absolutist positions. The left argues that transgender girls are girls and […]

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