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 2003

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Special Protection Is Not the Solution to Save Domestic Steel: A Critique of the Bush Steel Initiative, Matthew J.S. Graham

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Raw Deal: Trade Implications of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Pending Review of Unpasteurized Cheeses, Martha Ingram

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Engineering Akerlof Lemons: Information Asymmetry, Externalities, and Market Intervention in the Genetically Modified Food Market, Kim JoDene Donat

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Russia's New Land Code: A Two Percent Solution, William P. Kratzke

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The Internal Division of Powers in Corporate Governance: A Comparative Approach to the South Korean Statutory Scheme, Jae Yeol Kwon

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The Canadian Middle Road: Balancing Efficiency and Sovereignty in the Age of Multijurisdictional Merger Review, Ryan Marth

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The Kimberley Process: Conflict Diamonds, WTO Obligations, and the Universality Debate, Tracey Michelle Price

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The New Transatlantic Marketplace: A Contemporary Analysis of United States-European Union Trade Relations and Possibilities for the Future, Charles W. Smitherman III

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Regional Jet Trade Wars: Politics and Compliance in WTO Dispute Resolution, Helena D. Sullivan

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Triptych: Three Mediations on How Law Rules after Globalization, David A. Westbrook

Submissions from 2002

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Catching Flies with Chopsticks: China's Strategic Leap into Wireless Telecommunications, Rachael Abramson

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G8's Dotforce Initiative: Bridging the Digital Divide or Widening It, Nate Brennanman

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Perking Up the Cofee Industry through Fair Trade, Jill Draeger

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German Corporate Culture in the Twenty-First Century: The Interrelation between the End of Germany, Inc. and Germany's Corporate Capital Gains Tax Reform, Benjamin W. Johnson

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The Right of Innocent Passage: A Case Study on Two Koreas, Stephen Kong

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Scratching the Corporate Back: Why Corporations Have No Incentive to Define Human Rights, Erin Elizabeth Macek

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The International Drug Industry: What the Future Holds for South Africa's HIV/AIDS Patients, Rosalyn S. Park

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Dubious Partnership: The Legal, Political, and Economic Implications of Adding the United Kingdom to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Daniel S. Potts

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Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2002, C. Jeffrey Price

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Beating Them at Their Own Game: A Solution to the U.S. Foreign Sales Corporation Crisis, John Seiner

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The NAFTA Trucking Dispute: Pretexts for Noncompliance and Policy Justifications for U.S. Facilitation of Cross-Border Services, Hale E. Sheppard

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Food Fight: An Appraisal of the Fruit and Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation, Tammy Smith

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Metalclad v. United Mexican States Revisited: Judicial Oversight of NAFTA's Chapter Eleven Investor-State Claim Process, Chris Tollefson

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The World Trade Organization Appellate Body Report, European Communities - Measures Affecting Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products, Mar. 12, 2001, WT/DS135/AB/R, Laura Yavitz

Submissions from 2001

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International Free Trade Agreements and Human Rights: Reinterpreting Article XX of the GATT, Salman Bal

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Water Wars: Canada's Upstream Battle to Ban Bulk Water Export, Cynthia Baumann

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Bananas, Beed, and Compliance in the World Trade Organization: The Inability of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process to Achieve Compliance from Superpower Nations, Benjamin L. Brimeyer

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Epiphytic Economics and the Politics of Place, Jim Chen

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The WTO Ruling on Foreign Sales Corporations: Costliest Battle Yet in an Escalating Trade War between the United Statse and the European Union, Hunter R. Clark, Amy Bogran, and Hayley Hanson

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The North American Free Trade Agreement and the Environment: The Lessons of Metalclad Corporation v. United Mexican States, Lucien J. Dhooge

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A Proposal for Removing Road Blocks from the Information Superhighway by Using an Integrated International Approach to Internet Jurisdiction, Catherine P. Heaven

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Preserving Free Speech in a Global Courtroom: The Proposed Hague Convention and the First Amendment, Sarah Hudleston

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Looking to the North While Playing Doctor: Solving the H-1B Visa Problem by Following Canada's Lead, Sarah Jain

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Korean Hostile Takeovers and the Friendly Internationalization of the Securities Market: An Investor Protection Perspective, Kwang-Rok Kim

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Harmonizing TRIPs and the CBD: A Proposal from India, Muria Kruger

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India's Wayward Children: Do Affirmative Action Laws Designed to Compensate India's Historically Disadvantaged Castes Explain Low Foreign Direct Investment by the Indian Diaspora, Llyana Kuziemko and Geoffrey Rapp

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Will Fox Change Chiapas - Not Unless Trade Partners Uunderstand the Real Issues, Kimberly Olson

Submissions from 2000

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The People's Republic of China and the World Trade Organization: Anticipating a United States Congressional Dilemma, Brad L. Bacon

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Trade Policy and the Rule of Law, Charlene Bashefsky

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Raising or Razing the E-Curtain: The EU Directive on the Protection of Personal Data, Kevin Bloss

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Made in the USA Foundation v. United States: NAFTA, the Treaty Clause, and Constitutional Obsolescene, Rachel S. Brass

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The Disorders of Unrestricted Capital Mobility and the Limits of the Orthodox Imagination: A Critique of Robert Solomon, Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance since 1980 (Princeton University Press, 1999), Timothy A. Canova

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Taxation of Global E-Commerce on the Internet: The Underlying Issues and Proposed Plans, Clayton W. Chan

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Acute Symptoms of Chronic Problems: Japan's Procrastination in Solving Its Banking Crisis, the Current Situation and a Future Perspective, Dafei Chen

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Globalization and Its Losers, Jim Chen

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Ineffectiveness at Its Best: Fighting Terrorism with Economic Sanctions, Alan Einisman

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1998 Amendment to the U.S.-Japan Civil Air Transport Agreement: The Battle May Be Won, but the War for Open Skies is Far from Over, Gilbert Fisher

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Slicing the Rent-Seeking Onion: Why Differential Rent-Seeking Explains the Competitive Disadvantage of United States Sports Franchises in Canada, Ethan Glass

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U.S.-Canadian Grain Disputes, Won W. Koo and Ihn H. Uhm

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Replies to Jim Chen, Globalization and Its Losers - Democracy Should Not Have Losers, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

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Interpreting GATT Using the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Method to Increase the Legitimacy of the Dispute Settlement System, Peter C. Maki

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Furthering the Reforms of Agricultural Policies in the Milennium Round, Dale E. McNiel

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Globalization and Its Metaphors, John Miller

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WTO Food and Agricultural Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human Right to Food, Mark Ritchie and Kristin Dawkins

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The WTO and America's Agricultural Trade Agenda, Peter Scher

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Exported to Death: The Failture of Agricultural Deregulation, Robert Scott

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Trade and Cattle: How the System is Failing an Industry in Crisis, Terence P. Stewart, James R. Cannon Jr., Eric P. Salonen, and Dennis R. Nuxoll

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Globalization, Losers and Property Rights, Paul B. Thompson

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The Regionalist Answer, Robert Wolf

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Moving Towards a Competitive Electricity Market - The Dilemma of Project Finance in the Wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, Nan Zhand

Submissions from 1999

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The TRIMs Agreement: A Failed Attempt at Investment Liberalization, Paul Civello

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Fuji-Kodak, the WTO, and the Death of Domestic Political Constituencies, Sara Dillon

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The Treaty for East African Co-operation: Can East Africa Successfully Revive One of Africa's Most Infamous Economic Groupings, Susan Fitzke

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State Foreign Policy: The Legitamacy of the Massachusetts Burma Law, Shawna Fullerton

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The New WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure: An Overview of the First Three Years, Robert E. Hudec

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Against the Grain: The North Dakota Wheat Pooling Plan and the Liberalization Trend in World Agricultural Markets, Jon Lauck

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Princess Cruises, Inc. v. United States: Will the Love Boat Finally Sink the Harbor Maintenance Tax, Sara Lundell

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The Murky Waters of International Environmental Jurisprudence: A Critique of Recent WTO Holdings in the Shrimp/Turtle Controversy, Bret Puls

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Changing Freqyencies: The Federal Communications Commission Globalizes the Telecommunications Industry with the Adoption of the WTO Agreement, Krita Schwarting Rose

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Environmental Trade Barriers under NAFTA: The MMT Fuel Additives Controversy, Julie A. Soloway

Submissions from 1998

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Deep Economic Integration between Canada and the United States, the Emergence of Strategic Innovation Policy and the Need for Trade Law Reform, J. G. Castel and C.M. Gastle

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The U.S. Encryption Export Policy: Taking the Byte out of the Debate, Mai-Tram B. Dinh

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The Textiles Monitoring Body: Can It Bring Textile Trade into GATT, Kristine K. Dunn

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Focusing on Substantive Law in International Economic Relations: The Public Morals of GATT's Article XX(a) and Conventional Rules of Interpretation, Christoph T. Feddersen

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The Helms-Burton Act: Force or Folly of the World's Leader, Christian Franken

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Will GATT Take a Bite out of the Organic Food Production Act of 1990, Rick Franzen

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Should UNCLOS or GATT/WTO Decide Trade and Environment Disputes, Lakshman D. Guruswamy

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Writing Different Lyrics to the Same Old Tune: The New (and Improved) 1997 Amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Diedre McGrath

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Seeking Multilateral Protection for Intellectual Property: The United States TRIPs over Special 301, Robert J. Pechman

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The Background, Requirements, and Future of the GATT/WTO Preshipment Inspection Agreement, Emily Rome

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Emerging Market Debt Instruments Play Siren Song for Pension Plans, Ruth Rosauer

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The Sports Illustrated Canada Controversy: Canada Strikes out in Its Bid to Protect Its Periodical Industry from U.S. Split-Run Periodicals, Aaron Scow

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Alongside the Fast Track: Environmental and Labor Issues in FTAA, Charles Tiefer

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Free Trade Agreements and the New Federalism, Charles Tiefer

Submissions from 1997

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Recalcitrant Creditors against Debtor Nations, or How to Play Darts, Theodore Allegaert

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The Need for a GATT Doctrine of Locus Standi: Why the United States Cannot Stand the European Community's Banana Import Regime, Rodrigo Bustamante

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The Country Music Television Dispute: An Illustration of the Tensions between Canadian Cultural Protectionism and American Entertainment Exports, Andrew M. Carlson

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Sovereignty under the Agreement on Government Procurement, Paul J. Carrier

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Selling Science under the SPS Agreement: Accommodating Consumer Preference in the Growth Hormones Controversy, Michele D. Carter

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The Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations in the Protection of International Human Rights, Barbara A. Frey

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The Draft International Antitrust Code Proposed at Munich: Good Intentions Gone Awry, Daniel J. Gifford

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Multilateralization of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Lisa Harriman Randall

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The International Interpretation of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: An Approach Based on General Principles, Phanesh Koneru

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Womb for Rent: The Future of International Trade in Surrogacy, Iris Leibowitz-Dori

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Caught in a Trap: The European Union Leghold Trap Debate, Peter V. Michaud

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ISO 14000: Harmonizing Environmental Standards and Certification Procedures Worldwide, Genevieve Mullet

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Bananas and Treaty-Making Powers: Current Issues in the External Trade Law of the European Union, Inger Osterdahl

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Section 102 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: Preserving State Sovereignty, Joseph A. Wilson

Submissions from 1996

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The Standard of Review in the 1994 Antidumping Code: Circumscribing the Role of GATT Panels in Reviewing National Antidumping Determinations, Philip A. Akakwam

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So You Want to Invest in Russia - A Legislative Analysis of the Foreign Investment Climate in Russia, David F. Black