The Cornell International Law Journal Forum publishes essays, blog posts, and featured online content series covering current international law issues. Born out of the Journal’s desire to establish a repository for timely transnational law thought leadership during the pandemic, the Forum features contributions from the Journal’s Online Associates and guest authors from across the globe. We welcome submissions from all who seek to add to the contemporary conversation for the benefit of the international law community. If you wish to cite one of our articles, please use “[volume #] Cornell Int’l L.J. F. [page #] (year). * * *
In the 1990s, the Bush Administration changed how industrialized countries process refugees. Instead of allowing refugees to enter their territories and afford them ostensible substantive and procedural asylum protections, industrialized countries began offshoring and externalizing their refugee processing to third-party countries. Today, families who sought refuge in Australia now sit indefinitely confined in Papua New…
Over the course of the past half century, the topic of the death penalty had been hotly contested. The late 1980s marked the beginning of a movement against the imposition of mandatory capital punishment sentences. Various governing bodies, tribunals, protocols, and conventions have since established that the death penalty is no longer a legitimate punishment…
The right of establishment (ROE) is fundamental in any regional block. Under this right, community citizens and firms (rights holders) are entitled to leave their countries and establish commercial ventures, on a self-employed basis, in the territory of other partner states.
What do a shrimp farm in Saudi Arabia, fish-luring buoys for local fishermen in ‘Oman, and a domestic airline in Kazakhstan have in common? In 1976, the United States Supreme Court inaugurated an era of nearly unlimited political spending with Buckley v. Valeo. After the Watergate scandal cratered a popular presidency and sent shockwaves through…
