Anna Gelpern
Assessing the legitimacy of any legal system is hard, but especially if the system in question is the volatile and contested field of international...
The Supreme Court has overruled Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, finally interring a doctrine of statutory interpretation that it had...
The use of autonomy to initiate force, which states may begin to view as necessary to protect against hypersonic attacks and other forms of ‘hyperwar...
After two years of debate in Congress and the broader world over forfeiting the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank for the benefit of Ukraine...
Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...
There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...
Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...
The view that international law functions independently of municipal law (hermetically), does not reflect contemporary international practice. Instead...
In an international system that lacks centralized authority, the burden of enforcing the law generally falls on individual states. In many areas of...
A leading casebook on foreign relations law, authored by widely cited scholars who also have pertinent government experience, Foreign Relations Law...
En række amerikanske præsidentkandidater og kongresmedlemmer er i de sidste år begyndt at argumentere for, at USA burde lancere militære angreb mod...
Last month the European Court of Justice ended an eight-year tax battle involving Apple and Ireland. In a dramatic upset, the court handed the EU...
This provocative portrayal of the background to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine emphasizes the broad patterns of history that shape the present. Authored...
Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...
This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...
The Supreme Court’s recent expansion of the major questions doctrine has rocked administrative law, throwing into doubt executive agencies’ statutory...
National constitutions codify provisions on a wide range of topics, ranging from presidential term limits to the country’s flag. But are all...
This paper describes the response of George Washington's administration to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to...
