State Responsibility and the War on Terror: The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...

En række amerikanske præsidentkandidater og kongresmedlemmer er i de sidste år begyndt at argumentere for, at USA burde lancere militære angreb mod...

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...

The Supreme Court’s recent expansion of the major questions doctrine has rocked administrative law, throwing into doubt executive agencies’ statutory...

A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...

In an era defined by partisan rifts and government gridlock, many celebrate the rare issues that prompt bipartisan consensus. But extreme consensus...

In this article, we examine the relations between risk, the choice of foreign or local contract terms (parameters), and maturity in the sovereign debt...

In this article, we examine the relations between risk, the choice of foreign or local contract terms (parameters), and maturity in the sovereign debt...

At first blush, the debate between Stanley Fish and Ronald Dworkin that took place over the course of the 1980s and early 90s seems to have produced...

Both theorists and courts commonly assume that high-dollar financial contracts between sophisticated parties are free of linguistic errors...

The bill proposes a flawed and possibly unconstitutional reparations program and needs to be reworked to give Ukraine some chance at a viable post-war...

Congress is trying to roll up its sleeves and get to work on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In June, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) launched a...

Congress may want to prevent nuclear command and control from going fully autonomous. Would such a law be constitutional?

At the inception of a new and potentially transformative type of tax enforcement, this Article reviews the goals underlying the prohibition on state...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have searched for the best way to express their horror and dismay. At the level...