• Producer Responsibility Organizations: An Essential Part of an International Solution to Plastic Pollution 

  McMillen, Matthew (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  Plastic pollution is causing irreparable harm to marine wildlife and the environment. The alarming buildup of plastic pollution is also continuing to negatively affect humankind, and current international law is insufficient ...
• Seafarer Abandonment and the Maritime Labor Convention: An Examination of Its Effectiveness and Future Solutions 

  Blaskowsky, Alexa (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  This Comment will examine how the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) has failed to fully address seafarer abandonment. Part I discusses how the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Maritime Organization ...
• “Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee”: A Discussion of the Tolerance Limits for Drone Attacks Under the International Norm 

  Kim, Jongho; Hwang, Junghoon (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  After the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked, an MQ-9 Reaper drone carried out the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force (Elite Army of Iranian Revolutionary Guard). Concerns have emerged about ...
• The Status of “New Rights” Before the African Human Rights Commission and Court 

  Jimoh, Mujib (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  In 1986, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 41/120, which provides quality control for introducing new rights under international law. Under the Resolution, five criteria must be fulfilled: the ...
• Chief Justice Dixon on Judicial Integrity: Lessons for Judges when Interpreting Constitutions 

  Thompson, Keith (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  "In this Article, I suggest that Chief Justice Dixon considered that judicial virtue did not allow any judge to follow his own lights when precedent, established custom, or constitutional convention dictated a contrary ...
• The Fourth Branch, Separation of Powers, and Transformative Constitutionalism 

  Modi, Neil (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  Comparative constitutional law, generally, and the Global South, in particular, have witnessed two distinct and emerging movements in the past decade. The first is a proliferation of the “fourth branch” of the State. These ...
• The Critical Date and the Dispute over Islands in the Strait of Hormuz: Abu Musa and the Tunbs 

  Rossi, Christopher R. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)

  An intractable sovereignty dispute over three Lower Gulf Islands in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy chokepoint, prompts a reconsideration of the ambiguities and tensions associated with international legal mechanisms ...
• TikTok v. Trump: The “Renegade” of Digital Fair Trade 

  Willson, Lindsay (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  This Comment seeks to comprehensively describe the TikTok controversy by highlighting the widening gap between digitization and the shortcomings of international digital trade policy.
• Differing from “Us” in Religion, Customs, and Laws: The Philippines, Labor Migration, and United States Empire 

  Monthey, Tanya (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  Many industries in the United States have historically relied upon and continue to recruit and exploit workers from the Philippines. This trend reflects the supply and demand structures of labor migration first established ...
• Truth and Reconciliation: Restorative Justice, Accountability, and Cultural Violence 

  Miller, Kimbirlee E. Sommer (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous North American children were forcibly removed from their homes and held in large residential boarding schools to force tribal assimilation into White culture. Laws like the Indian ...
• Politico-Legal Inter-State Disputes: Should the United Nations International Law Commission Be Requested to Commence Studies on the “Opportunities for Holistic Dispute Settlement?” 

  Chigara, Benedict Abrahamson (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  This Article recommends a review of the jurisdictional provision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to ensure internal logical coherency of the assumptions that underpin the jurisdictional mandate of the ICJ. The ...
• Through a Crow-Tit and a Stork: Humanizing Poverty in Japan 

  Kamio, Kiyoko (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  This Article describes the author's endeavor as a legal educator to humanize poverty, making it more relevant to a nonlegal audience both on and beyond the university campus.
• Asynchronous Online Courts: The Future of Courts? 

  Xi, Chen (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  Asynchronous online courts combine the features of the current online court and online dispute resolution (ODR), allowing the public to communicate online asynchronously. Canada, the United Kingdom (U.K.), Singapore, and ...
• Restricting Scientific Legitimacy in the Age of Biotechnology? 

  Smith, George P., II (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-05-05)

  This Article investigates the steps which need to be undertaken in order to ensure that scientific conduct is legitimized—and thereby recognized—as indispensable for global peace and progress. Contemporary philosophy of ...
• Short-Time Work: An Alternative to Ad Hoc Legislation for Saving Employment During Economic Crises 

  Vida, Emily (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  Readers hardly need to be reminded of how the sudden onset of COVID-19 in early 2020 turned the world upside down. Countries closed their borders. Toilet paper became scarce. And hospitals in population-dense areas operated ...
• A Matter of Speech or a Matter of Safety? International Bans on Conversion Therapy and the Constitutionality of Germany’s Partial Ban for Juveniles 

  Johnson, Zachary M. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  This Comment argues that the recently passed German ban on conversion therapy for juveniles would likely be deemed constitutional in the United States; accordingly, Congress should consult the German ban before introducing ...
• I Do, I Did, I’m Done: Copyright and Termination of Transfer in Divorce 

  Coates, Sarah (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  In a divorce, divided assets range from the mundane—homes, cars, joint bank accounts—to the downright unusual—Nobel Prizes,stuffed animals, and even human organs. But even the strangest possessions can be equitably divided ...
• The Propaganda Conundrum: How to Control This Scourge on Democracy 

  Dillon, Sara (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  Propaganda is playing an unprecedented role in global political life. With frightening reach and ambition, political and corporate actors are using propaganda to undermine the democratic ideals of truth and transparency. ...
• The Lukashenko Case: Is He Persona Non Grata in the Diplomatic Sense? 

  Zhang, Xiaoyang (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  In 2020, Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president of Belarus. Outcry by local protesters that the election was not a fair one has arguably been crushed by Belarus’s law enforcement agency. Lukashenko was, therefore, ...
• Is the International Criminal Court Dying? An Examination of Symptoms 

  Smith, Stephen Eliot (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-04)

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) has recently been derided as a dead or dying institution. This Article briefly reviews some of the signs that the ICC may be waning in effectiveness and relevance.

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