Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems

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• Weapons of Mass Deception and What We Don't Know About U.S. Policy in the Middle East
• The Message and Means of Modern Terrorism Prosecution
• Winning Without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism
• Racializing Islam Before and After 9/11: From Melting Pot to Islamophobia
• EU Cosmetics Directive and the Ban on Animal Testing: Compliance, Challenges, and the GATT as a Potential Barrier to Animal Welfare
• Remarks: 9/11 and 9/12 + 10 = The United States, Al-Qaeda, and the World
• Introduction to the Symposium
• Rethinking Salvation Mentality and Counterterrorism
• Counterterrorism and Economic Policy
• No Peace Without Rights: Why International Law Matters

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• The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Forgotten History of the White House Children's Conferences, 1909-1971

  I. Introduction - II. A forgotten history and opposition to the CRC - III. A call to reinstate the white house conferences - IV. The White House children‘s conferences - V. The CRC - VI. The right to life and survival, the right to guidance and protection, and the right to respect and to be heard - ...

• Correctional Rehabilitation Programs and the Adoption of International Standards: How the United States Can Reduce Recidivism and Promote the National Interest

  I. Introduction. II. Overview: Rehabilitation, Prisoners' Rights, and Demographics of the Prison Population. A. Timeline: Developing the Concept of Rehabilitation. B. A Survey on the Law of Prisoners' Rights. 1. Reluctant Jurists. 2. Taking Off the Kid Gloves. 3. Recent Developments. C. Prison...

• Weapons of Mass Deception and What We Don't Know About U.S. Policy in the Middle East
• Winning Without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism
• Sovereign Investing in Times of Crisis: Global Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds, State-Owned Enterprises, and the Chinese Experience

  The financial crisis of 2007 has brought into sharper focus a set of rising global financial actors-the sovereign investors. In the form of sovereign wealth funds ("SWFs"), sovereigns have become an important player in the global financial market and its stability. Over the last decade,...

• Counterterrorism and Economic Policy
• Global Legal Education and Comparative Visa Regulations

  I. Introduction. II. Global Legal Education. A. The Worldwide Diffusion of U.S. Law Firms. B. International Prestige of U.S. Law Schools. C. The Challenge of Comparative Law and Knowledge of Foreign Legal Systems. D. Are Foreign Visa and Entry Regulations Real Barriers to the Expansion of U.S. Law...

• Plea Bargaining as a Legal Transplant: A Good Idea for Troubled Criminal Justice Systems?

  I. Introduction. II. Troubled Criminal Justice Systems: What Countries Fall Under This Category?. III. Plea Bargaining Transplants: Two Examples. A. The Republic of Georgia. 1. Background. 2. Plea Bargaining. a) Plea Bargaining in the Georgian Criminal Procedure Code. b) Plea Bargaining in Practice....

• The Grass is Always Greener': A Look at Educational Reform in the United States and Japan
• Basel II: A Post-Crisis Post-Mortem

  I. Introduction - II. The misplaced hopes of Basel II - A. Introduction - B. Why National Capital Adequacy Standards? - C. Why Harmonize Capital Adequacy Standards? - D. Competitiveness (Level Playing Field) Concerns - III. Diagnostics - IV. Basel II weaknesses - A. False Sense of Security - B....