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On March 8, 2013, the Honorable Charles Brower offered a vociferous defense of the international commercial arbitration regime in his keynote address, “From ‘Dealing in Virtue’ to ‘Profiting from Injustice’: Tending Toward the Re-Statification of International Investment Dispute Resolution.” Judge Brower has, among other positions, served as a judge of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal [...]

Current targeted killings practices and the attempts to legally justify those strikes present a challenge to the systematic protection of the right to life under international law. We are now witnessing a significant effort by some states to insulate their “targeted” uses of deadly force from international scrutiny and to redefine international law in order to serve narrow and short-term interests. This presents a serious risk of leaving everyone less secure, particularly if other states around the world, as they acquire the new technology, claim for themselves the same expanded rights to target their enemies without meaningful transparency or accountability.

Concluding that the law enforcement model for preventing cyberespionage is ineffective, this article proposes a modified strategy that expands the process of responding to online economic espionage by allowing retaliation by a victim after it had analyzed the attack and determined with the necessary level of confidence that it came from a particular nation-state and, [...]

This brief commentary considers the potential effect of a territorial state’s international human rights obligations on the law governing targeted killings. It posits that these obligations should limit permissible attacks by an attacking state when the territorial state is not party to an armed conflict with the relevant non-state actor, particularly when a territorial state consents to the attacking state’s actions.

Harvard International Law Journal 2011 Symposium Developments and Challenges in International Intellectual Property Law March 25, 2011 Harvard Law School   Schedule Keynote Address: The White House Strategy for Intellectual Property in the 21st Century Victoria Espinel U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator 12:00PM -1:00PM John Chipman Gray Lunch will be served Panel 1: International Institutional Landscape [...]

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