The Minnesota Journal of International Law is a student-led publication at the University of Minnesota Law School. We aspire to be a leader in the multidisciplinary study of international and comparative law. The Journal annually publishes two print volumes and one online edition. Each publication consists of articles and notes relating to various topics in international law, including international politics, trade and economics, human rights, and humanitarian law. Our authors range from international scholars, legal experts to our very own student staff members.
Student staff members are selectively chosen after completing a competitive two week petition process. Incoming staff members are responsible for assisting in the editing process of publication. Staff members also spend many hours writing their own articles – either a “note” or a “comment” – which they are then able to submit for publication. After spending one year as staffers, students are promoted to editorial positions. Editors work diligently to ensure the Journal remains a respected and qualified source of international law. Our staffers and editors play a key role in the Journal’s success and are an integral part of the Journal’s future.

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Submissions from 2019

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The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Apply the Crime Against Humanity of Persecution Before the ICC, Haydee J. Dijkstal

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Yitz and Ishmael: A Drama in One Very Long Act, Jim Friedberg

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How New Zealand’s Adoption of the Nagoya Protocol Would Enhance Protection of Māori Traditional Knowledge, Emily Ortlieb Ricciardi

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Children in Limbo: The Need for Maximum Limits for Juvenile Pretrial Detention, Rebecca Rosefelt

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The Future of the US-EU Covered Agreement: How to Drag an Absurdly Federalist Regulatory System into the Global Reinsurance Market, Bailey Stubbe

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Human Rights Conditions: What We Know and Why It Matters, David Weissbrodt and Patrick Finnegan

Submissions from 2018

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Gendering the Law of Occupation: The Case of Cyprus, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

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Weighing Lives: Israel’s Prisoner-Exchange Policy and the Right to Life, Shelly Aviv Yeini

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State Capitalism on the Ascent: Stress, Shock, and Adaptation of the International Law on Foreign Investment, Julien Chaisse

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Effectiveness of Labor Provisions within Free Trade Agreements Between the United States and Latin American Countries, Cayla D. Ebert

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GATS Regulation for Launch Services: Resolving the United States-India Conflict, Shane Fitzmaurice

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A Hierarchy of the Goals of International Criminal Courts, Stuart Ford

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Litigating the Right to Health under Occupation: Between Bureaucracy and Humanitarianism, Aeyal Gross

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War Aims Matter: Keeping Jus Contra Bellum Restrictive While Requiring the Articulation of the Goals of the Use of Force, Jens Iverson

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A Missing Variable: The Impact of Cross-Border Insolvency Laws on Foreign Direct Investment, Jason Jack

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Relocation, Regulation and Rigor: How Germany’s New Integration Act Violates the Refugee Convention, Ashlynn Kendzior

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Conserving Culture: The Shift Towards International Criminal Liability for the Destruction of Cultural Property, Andrew Miles

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The Right to a Genuine Electoral Democracy, Amnon Rubinstein and Yaniv Roznai

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Human Rights Situation in North Korea: Lack of Significant Progress from the United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms and What Can be Done, Eric Ryu

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Jus Post Bellum: Justice After the War, Robert A. Stein

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Transitional Post-Occupation Obligations under the Law of Belligerent Occupation, Dana Wolf

Submissions from 2017

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From Al-Qaida in 2001 to ISIL in 2015: The Security Council’s Decisions on Terrorism and Their Impact on the Right to Self-Defense Against Autonomous Non-State Actors, Alberto Alvarez-Jimenez

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Asylum’s Interpretative Impasse: Interpreting “Persecution” and “Particular Social Group” Using International Human Rights Law, Nicholas R. Bednar and Margaret Penland

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Ejab Mantin Majel: Corporal Punishment in Public Schools in the Marshall Islands, Justin A. Behravesh

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(Re)discovering Duties: Individual Responsibility in the Age of Rights, Fernando Berdion Del Valle and Kathryn Sikkink

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Just Wars with Unjust Allies: Use of Force and Human Rights Considerations on the Russian Intervention in Syria, Brendan Delany

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Cuban Migration to the United States in a Post-Normalized Relations World, Kevin J. Fandl

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Targeting Decisions and Consequences for Civilians in the Colombian Civil Strife, Aaron X. Fellmeth and Douglas J. Sylvester

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Jus Cogens: To Revise a Narrative, Sue S. Guan

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“Muéstrame el Dinero”: Increasing Foreign Direct Investments in Cuba with a BIT of Help, Kevin Kitchen

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The Logical Next Step: Motivations on the Formations of a Business and Human Rights Treaty, Graham Markiewicz

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Distinction and Proportionality in Cyber War: Virtual Problems with a Real Solution, CDR Peter Pascucci

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An Emerging Trend in International Trade: A Shift to Safeguard Against ISDS Abuses and Protect Host-State Sovereignty, Nikesh Patel

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Errors and Misconceptions in the 2015 Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Jordan J. Paust

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Better the Devil You Know? UK Alternatives to EU Membership, Tim Peel

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Human Rights Lost: the (Re)making of an American Story, Christopher N.J. Roberts

Submissions from 2016

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Agreeing to Disagree: The Primacy Debate Between the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice, John Henry Dingfelder Stone

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The Right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Enrich Uranium, Kamyar Ghorbanebrahimi

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Snoozing Democracy: Sunset Clauses, De-Juridification, and Emergencies, Antonios Kouroutakis and Sofia Ranchordás

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Why Ratification of the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea May Violate Article III of the U.S. Constitution, Julian G. Ku

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Hurting More than Helping: How the Marshall Islands’ Seeming Bravery Against the Major Powers Only Stands to Maim the Legitimacy of the World Court, Katherine Maddox Davis

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Steering for More Trouble? Could the Ruling in United States v. American Express Co. Lead to Further Antitrust Enforcement Actions in Europe?, Michael Srodoski

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Setting Norms: Protections for Surrogates in International Commercial Surrogacy, Xinran “Cara” Tang

Submissions from 2015

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Resolution 2122: The “Aborted” Debate, Debdatta Dobe

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Palestinian Economic Development: Israeli Actions in Light of the 1994 Paris Protocol and International Economic Law, Vincent El Hayek

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Iterations of the Family: Parents, Children and Mixed-Status Families, Tally Kritzman-Amir

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Rhetoric Versus Reality: U.S. Resistance to Global Trade Rules and the Implications for Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, Eric L. Richards

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The Return of Novorossiya: Why Russia’s Intervention in Ukraine Exposes the Weakness of International Law, Adam Twardowski

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Fukushima and New Zealand v. France Nuclear Tests: Can Japan be Brought to the International Court of Justice for Damages Caused by Fukushima Plants?, Harold S. Yun

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Can Occupation Resulting from a War of Self-Defense Become Illegal?, Ariel Zemach

Submissions from 2014

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The Peril of Imposing the Rule of Law: Lessons From Liberia, Jonathan Compton

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Lighten Up – Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Allison E. Don

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“You’re not Actually going into an Asteroid Field?” – The Threat of Man-Made Space Debris, and a Proposal to Extend Existing Law to Prevent it, Justin Moor

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The International Rule of Law: An Analysis, Monica P. Moyo

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Incentivizing Access to the WTO’s Dispute System for the Least-Developed Countries: Legal Flaws in Brazil’s Upland Cotton Decision Luke Olson, Luke Olson

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Environmental Savior or Regulatory Carte Blanche?, David P. Vincent

Submissions from 2013

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Transparency Between Norm, Technique and Property in International Law and Governance: The Example of Corporate Disclosure Regimes and Environmental Impacts, Larry Catá Backer

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Failure of Complementarity: The Future of the International Criminal Court Following the Libyan Admissibility Challenge, Anna Bishop

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Perception is not Reality: The FCPA, Brazil, and the Misdemeanor of Corruption, Stuart Vincent Campbell

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The European Central Bank’s Securities Markets Programme: Why a Necessary Response to the European Debt Crisis Should Come to an End, Peter Doely

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Rejection, Revocation of Acceptance, and Avoidance: A Comparative Assessment of UCC and CISG Goods Oriented Remedies, Sarah Howard Jenkins

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The Normative Logic of Global Economic Governance: In Pursuit of Non-Instrumental Justification for the Rule of Law and Human Rights, Kevin T. Jackson

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A Tour de Horizon of Issues on the Agenda of the Mercenaries Working Group, Gabor Rona

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Future War, Future Law, Eric Talbot Jensen

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Cyber-Conflict, Cyber-Crime, and Cyber-Espionage, David Weissbrodt

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Extraterritorial Enforcement and Prosecutorial Discretion in the FCPA: A Call For International Prosecutorial Factors, Emily Willborn

Submissions from 2012

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Facilitating Preferential Trade Agreements between Developed and Developing Countries: A Case for “Enabling” the Enabling Clause, Won-Mog Choi and Yong-Shik Lee

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The Rise of Gestational Surrogacy and the Pressing Need for International Regulation, Erica Davis

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Call for Reform: Analyzing Trips Through European Seizure of Generic Medication, Justin Erickson

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Attribution and the Umbrella Clause – Is There a Way Out of Deadlock?, Dr. Michael Feit

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Combating Corruption through Corporate Transparency Using Enforcement Discretion to Improve Disclosure, David Hess

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Counterclaims in Investor-State Arbitration, Yaraslau Kryvoi

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Mergers & Accusations: Chinese Auditing and Corporate Disclosure Standards Indirectly on Trial in the United States, Janelle A. McCarty

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Binding the United Nations: Compulsory Review of Disputes Involving UN International Responsibility before the International Court of Justice, Anastasia Telesetsky

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AquAdvantage is Not Real Advantage: European Biotechnology Regulations and the United States’ September 2010 FDA Review of Genetically Modified Salmon, Katherine Wilinska

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Between a Treaty and Not: A Case Study of the Legal Value of Diplomatic Assurances in Expulsion Cases, William Thomas Worster

Submissions from 2011

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The Return of the State, José E. Alvarez

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Consultation and Legitimacy in Transnational Standard-Setting, Caroline Bradley

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Indigenous Reparations Re-Imagined: Crafting a Settlement Mechanism for Indigenous Claims in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Sean Burke

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Updating the International Monetary System to Respond to Current Global Challenges: Can It Happen Within the Existing Legal Framework?, Aldo Caliari

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Hudec’s Methods-and Ours, Jeffrey L. Dunoff

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Reconciling the Right to Food and Trade Liberalization: Developing Country Opportunities, Lily Endean Nierenberg

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South-South Trade and Investment: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-African Perspectives, Uché U. Ewelukwa

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The International Competition Network: Its Past, Current and Future Role, Hugh M. Hollman and William E. Kovacic

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The Evidence for Constitutionalization of the WTO: Revisiting the Telmex Report, Theodore Kill

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Red Banking: Chinese State-Owned Commercial Bank Reform and the Basel II Accord, Christopher D. Luehr

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Towards a New Jus Post Bellum: The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and the Improvement of Post-Conflict Efforts and Accountability, Liliana Lyra Jubilut

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Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc.: Aiding and Abetting Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute, James Morrissey

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Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Rules: Dynamic Transformations in Trade Policy Behavior and Performance, Chiedu Osakwe

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When Courts and Congress Don’t Say What They Mean: Initial Reactions to Morrison v. National Australia Bank and to the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, Richard Painter, Douglas Dunham, and Ellen Quackenbos

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Professor Hudec and the Appellate Body, Ricardo Ramirez

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The Empirical Turn in International Economic Law, Beth A. Simmons and Andrew B. Breidenbach

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Ill-Gotten Gains: The Case for International Corporate Criminal Liability, Jordan Sundell

Submissions from 2010

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The Need for Enforcement of U.S. Punitive Damages Awards by the European Union, Jessica J. Berch

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No Sirve: The Invalidity of Service of Process Abroad by Mail or Private Process Server on Parties in Mexico Under the Hague Service Convention, Charles B. Campbell

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Regulatory Imperialism: The Worldwide Export of European Regulatory Principles of Credit Rating Agencies, Kristina St. Charles

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Mortgage Borrowing: A Comparative Analysis of National Regulatory Approaches to Loans and Lenders in Canada and the United States, Lucas Frasz

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Self-Determination, Sovereignty, and the Failure of States: Somaliland and the Case for Justified Secession, Aaron Kreuter

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Treaty Interpretaiton in WTO Dispute Settlement: The Outstanding Question of the Legality of Local Working Requirements, Bryan Mercurio and Mitali Tyagi

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Closer to Justice: Transferring Cases from the International Criminal Court, George H. Norris