Throughout the past months, Iran and the United States have been rattling their sabers over nuclear inspections and new sanctions. A potential flashpoint is the waterway Strait of Hormuz, which Iran is threatening to close. The Middle East region supplies 70 percent of the world's energy needs,...

• Progress Is Made Implementing U.S.-Russia Framework for Eliminating Syrian Chemical Weapons• United States Advocates for Syrian Peace Conference• United States Extends Deadline for Signing of Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan• China Announces New Air Defense Identification...

Another Mexican National Executed in Texas in Defiance of Avena Decision; Manhattan Arrest of Indian Consular Official Sparks Public Dispute Between the United States and India; United States Questions Claims Based on China’s “Nine-Dash Line” in the South China Sea; United States Takes...

This paper explores the role of international law in Canada-US relations. It concludes that, while international legal considerations are only one among many types of factors that influence Canadian or US government policies and decisions, their relations must necessarily be carried out in the...

Our story always seems to pit the good guys against the bad guys:the founding fathers versus the evil empire, man versus machine, Main Street versus Wall Street, the ninety-nine percent versus the one percent. Nobody, including those of us who struggle to realize human rights in the United...

The global movement towards the adoption of corporate human rights due diligence laws is gaining momentum. Starting in France, moving to the Netherlands, and now at the European Union level, lawmakers across Europe are accepting the need to legislate to require that companies conduct human...

It is frequently said that the United States has a paradoxical human rights policy. This Article takes a closer look at this vision from the perspective of U.S. engagement with international human rights treaty bodies, the quasi-adjudicatory expert committees or commissions that exercise...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in Luxembourg handed down a long-awaited judgement on international data transfers in the Schrems II case. The Court found U.S. law does not provide the “essentially equivalent”...