Foreword

• Citation: Vol. 30 No. 1
• Publication year: 2015

Foreword

Lauren Ulrich

FOREWORD

The Editorial Board of the Emory International Law Review is proud to present the first issue of Volume 30. With Volume 30, the Emory International Law Review carries on the vision cast in Volume 29 for publishing smaller and more frequent issues and Recent Developments pieces. Volume 30 highlights a keynote address, eight professional articles and ten noteworthy student pieces that span a wide range of subjects in international law from investor-state dispute settlement to peace and conflict resolution in Syria, and from Supreme Court international law jurisprudence to the unwilling or unable paradigm in international humanitarian law.

For the first time, the Emory International Law Review highlights scholarship presented at the Atlanta International Arbitration Society's (AtlAS) conference, Enhancing Business Opportunities in Africa, in November 2014. The first issue of Volume 30 will feature a keynote address delivered at the AtlAS conference on November 3, 2014 by the Honorable Judge Charles N. Brower of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and 20 Essex Street Chambers. With this issue, EILR has committed to increasing discourse in the academic literature on international arbitration. Also highlighted in Issue 1 is an essay by Professor Becky L. Jacobs of the University of Tennessee, which is based on a presentation given at the AtlAS conference in November 2014...