Coercion is ubiquitous in international relations. Yet international law has neither defined coercion nor has it developed an understanding of the nature, processes, or legality of coercion. This Article addresses this gap in international law scholarship. Because coercion is best understood...

Statespersons, scholars, and commentators of every political persuasion agree that we are currently witnessing a crisis of world order. It is widely assumed that the co-called ‘Liberal World Order' that the United States constructed in the post-World War II years is collapsing. This Article...

It is widely assumed that the U.N. Security Council is a collective security mechanism. This Essay challenges this assumption. It claims that the U.N. Security Council was designed and continues to operate as a Great Power Concert, akin to the Concert of Europe of nineteenth century Europe....

South Sudan’s independence has increased the number of Nile riparian states to eleven. Unfortunately, the Nile remains without an all-inclusive legal regime to regulate its use and to ensure that this indispensable natural resource is conserved for future generations. What, therefore, are the...

On the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifteenth anniversary of the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, it is time for the global community to reflect on the future of our system of global climate...

This article analyzes the intersection between international trade and environmental regimes. Increasingly, multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) rely on trade measures to implement and enforce environmental obligations. Trade-related environmental measures accentuate the existence of...

This collection of essays is the initial product of the second meeting of the Environmental Law Collaborative, a group of environmental law scholars that meet to discuss important and timely environmental issues. Here, the group provides an array of perspectives arising from the Fifth Assessment...

The UN General Assembly has declared that we have just over a decade in which to act to limit greenhouse gas emissions so as to avert the worst effects of climate change.1 Yet, in the face of this looming crisis, state actors exhibit a shocking lack of ambition in their efforts to structure...