Recently added articles from Chicago Journal of International Law:
Great Power Security
Jul 01, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION The change of administration in the US may have encouraged the belief that collective security will finally have its day.1 Critics of the Bush administration argued that the US intervention in Iraq was illegal because it had not received the authorization of the UN ...
The Language of Law and the Practice of Politics: Great Powers and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination in the Cases of Kosovo and South Ossetia
Jul 01, 2009; ... "When the President [Woodrow Wilson] talks of 'self-determination' what unit has he in mind? Does he mean a race, a territorial area, or a community?" It was a calamity, [Secretary of State Robert] Lansing thought, that Wilson had ever hit on the phrase. "It will raise hopes which can never be ...
The Politics of International Judicial Appointments
Jan 01, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION How, if at all, do governments influence the choices that international judges make? This question has justly received ample attention in the literature. Unlike in the study of American judicial politics, however, relatively few of these scholarly efforts have been ...
The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court
Jan 01, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION On July 10, 2008, International Criminal Court ("ICC") Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo informed members of the UN Security Council that he would be issuing an indictment against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for ...
Is Arbitration a Threat or a Boon to the Legitimacy of International Investment Law?
Jan 01, 2009; ... I. THE "LEGITIMACY CRISIS" IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW International courts and tribunals are, in contrast to their domestic counterparts, in the unique situation of having to defend themselves on a regular basis against attacks on their legitimacy as mechanisms for resolving ...