Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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• Do Human Rights Treaties Matter? The Case for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
• Artificial Islands and Territory in International Law.
• The Soft Power of Dissent: The Impact of Dissenting Opinions from the Russian Constitutional Court.
• Regulating Corruption in Intercountry Adoption.
• Climate Change Refugees in the Time of Sinking Islands.
• Using the WTO to Facilitate the Paris Agreement: A Tripartite Approach.
• Addressing the Value Gap in the Age of Digital Music Streaming.
• Reforming FIFA from the Inside Out.
• Challenging and Refining the "Unwilling or Unable" Doctrine.
• Building Bridges: International Trade Law, Internet Governance, and the Regulation of Data Flows.

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• "Measuring" the erosion of academic freedom as an international human right: a report on the legal protection of academic freedom in Europe.
• Criminal law pays: penal law's contribution to China's economic development.
• Hidden by Sovereign Shadows: Improving the Domestic Framework for Deterring State-Sponsored Cybercrime.
• International Multiple Derivative Actions.
• Cartel Criminalization in Europe: Addressing Deterrence and Institutional Challenges.
• Civil Actions for Acts that Are Valid According to Religious Family Law but Harm Women's Rights: Legal Pluralism in Cases of Collision Between Two Sets of Laws

  This Article analyzes the implications of legal pluralism when religious family law conflicts with state civil tort law. Refusal to grant a get (a Jewish divorce bill) in Jewish law, divorcing a wife against her will in Muslim Shari’a law, and bigamy and polygamy in Muslim Shari?’a law are...

• Do Human Rights Treaties Matter? The Case for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
• Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction

  Statelessness exists in the United States-a fact that should be of concern to advocates of strict immigration control as well as those who favor a more welcoming policy. The predominant reasons for statelessness include the presence of individuals who are unable to prove their nationality and the...

• The Perks of being a whistleblower: designing efficient leniency programs in new antitrust jurisdictions.
• The dehumanization of international humanitarian law: legal, ethical, and political implications of autonomous weapon systems.