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• Lawfare: The Weaponization of International Law by Waseem Ahmad Qureshi

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• Disincentivizing the Growing Trend of Denunciating the Investment Treaty Framework: Tracking the Criticism and Analyzing the Future of Transnational Regulation of Investment Law by Kristin Kluding

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• In Memory of Sergei Magnitsky: A Lawyer’s Role in Promoting and Protecting International Human Rights by Thomas H. Wilson & J. Robert Sheppard, III

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• Compensatory Allowance after Divorce in French Law: La Prestation Compensatoire by Christine Bidaud-Garon
• An Overview of the Rules in the USA Regarding the Award of Post-Divorce Spousal Support in 2019 by J. Thomas Oldham
• Spousal Maintenance in Scots Family Law by John M. Fotheringham

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• Realism and International Cooperation in Competition Law by Thanh Phan

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• Marine Biodiversity Conservation: The International Legal Framework and Challenges by Waseem Ahmad Qureshi
• A Mexican Outlook on NAFTA, TPP and Their Renegotiation: Investment Arbitration’s Transparency and International Supervision at Peril by Camilo Soto Crespo

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• Actual Commitment to Compliance with International Law and Subsequent Supreme Court Opinions: A Reply to Professor Moore by Jordan J. Paust
• Non-Discrimination in International Law and Sovereign Equality of States: An Historical Perspective by Michail Risvas

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• Hierarchy and the Sources of International Law: A Critique by Mario Prost
• Event Summary: Third Annual Houston Conference on Oil and Gas Investment Arbitration by Julian Cardenas-Garcia & Julia Valencia
• The International Custody Battle: Conflict of Law Between The Hague Abduction Convention and U.S. Asylum Law by Nicole Su

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• Diplomats Bearing Presents: Diplomatic Funding under International Law by Paul Behrens

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• Comparative Study of the Formation of Electronic Contracts in American Law with References to International and Mexican Law by Roberto Rosas

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• The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as Applied to Non-Signatory Nations: Getting to Square One by Lara Cardin

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• A Response to Adam Roberts by Gary L. Francione

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• Guevara v. Maritime: Caught in the Wake of Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. by Mark Alfieri

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• International Law and National Sovereignty: The NAFTA and the Claims of Mexican Jurisdiction by Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• The Impact of International Trade Agreements in the Legal Systems of the American Continent by Sergio López Ayllón
• International Law and the Protection of Human Rights in the Inter-American System by Christina M. Cerna
• The Impact of Globalization on the Reform of the State and the Law in Latin America by Héctor Fix-Fierro & Sergio López-Ayllón
• The IMF and the Liberalization of Capital Markets by FranHois Gianviti
• Strengthening Core Values in the Americas: Regional Commitment to Democracy and the Protection of Human Rights by Ellen L. Lutz
• Foreword: National Sovereignty and Globalization by Miguel de la Madrid H.
• NAFTA’s Regime for Intellectual Property: In the Mainstream of Public International Law by James A.R. Nafziger
• Reconceptualizing Sovereignty in the Americas: Historical Precursors and Current Practices by Kathryn Sikkink
• Free Trade in the Americas: A Perspective from the Organization of American States by Jeannette M.E. Tramhel
• Defending Democracy Through Foreign Intervention by David Wippman
• Military Might Versus Sovereign Right: The Kidnapping of Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain and the Resulting Fallout by Mark S. Zaid
• Allocating Legislative Competence in the Americas: The Early Experience Under NAFTA and the Challenge of Hemispheric Integration by Stephen Zamora

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• Is There a Niche for the State in Corporate Governance – Securitization of State-Owned Enterprises and New Forms of Sate Ownership by Andrei A. Baev

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• COGSA or Hague-Visby: Cargo Damages in International Shipments by Trevor R. Jefferies
• The Enforcement of European Union Law: The Role of the European Court of Justice and the Court’s Latest Challenge by Lisa Borgfeld White

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• Precontractual Liability and the Duty of Good Faith Negotiation in International Transactions by John Klein & Carla Bachechi

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• Weathering the Storm: International Loss of Hire Policies and the Problem of Unchartered Vessels and Stacked Rigs by J. James Cooper & Orin H. Lewis

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• Japan’s Gaiben Law: Economic Protectionism or Cultural Perfectionism by Linda Coulter
• The Closing of the Saga of the Vietnamese Asylum Seekers: The Implications on International Refugees and Human Rights Laws by Yen Tran

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• New Perspectives for Concession Agreements: A Comparison of Hungarian Law and the Draft Wars of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia by Viktor Soloveytchik

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• Biotechnology: An International Bibliography

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• The Lockerbie Air Disaster: Punitive Damages in International Aviation Under the Warsaw Convention by Larry Moore
• Prosecuting Iraqi Crimes Under International Law: An American Constitutional Imperative by Louis René Beres

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• The University of Houston Russian Petroleum Legislation Project: A Brief Perspective by George W. Hardy III
• The History and Organization of the Russian Petroleum Legislation Project at the University of Houston Law Center by Jacqueline Lang Weaver
• Drafting the Russian Law on Oil and Gas: An Oil Industry Lawyer’s Perspective by James W. Skelton, Jr.
• The Proposed Russian Petroleum Conservation and Environmental Protection Law of 1992 by Patrick H. Martin
• Russian Federation Tax Legislation Impacting Russia Based Oil & Gas Operations: Endless (?) Transition by William P. Streng

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• University of Houston Russian Petroleum Project by Robert L. Knauss
• Memorandum: University of Houston Law Center Russian Petroleum Legislation Project; Russian Oil & Gas Tax Provisions – “Supertax” Summary

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• Legal Aspects of the United States/International Space Station by Sherri R. Malpass

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• The New Montreal Protocol and the Future of International Law for Protection of the Global Environment by Anne Gallagher
• Intellectual Property Protection Through International Trade by Brent W. Sadler

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• Marine Pollution and Spoliation of Natural Resources as War Measures: A Note on Some International Law Problems in the Gulf War by Florentino P. Feliciano
• International Law of Secession: New Rules for a New Era by Lawrence M. Frankel

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• Personal Jurisdiction Over Aliens: Unravelling Entangled Case Law by Bradley W. Paulson
• Development of the Berne International Copyright Convention and Implications of United States Adherence by Susan Stanton
• Global Air Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect: Can International Legal Structures Meet the Challenge by Roberta Dohse

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• Current Documents: Gulf War Legal and Diplomatic Documents
• The Process Patent Amendments of 1988: Closing a Loophole in United States Patent Law by Elizabeth R. Hall

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• The Development of Commercial Law for Foreign Investment in China by Will Armstrong

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• Mexican Law of Judicial Competence by Fernando Alejandro Vázquez Pando

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• The Rule of Law and “Perfect Secrecy” by Gary J. Schmidt

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• No Man’s Land: International Legal Regulation of Coercive Responses to Protracted and Low Level Conflict by Michael Reisman
• Reaction to Terrorism: A Jewish Law Caveat by J. David Bleich
• Universality and the Responsibility to Enforce International Criminal Law: No U.S. Sanctuary for Alleged Nazi War Criminals by Jordan J. Paust
• International Law, Citizen Resistance, and Crimes by the State – The Defense Speaks by Francis A. Boyle
• A Survey of Domestic and International Sanctions Against Spectator Violence at Sporting Events by Christopher D. Bertini

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• The International Legal Status of Hong Kong under Post-Transitional Rule by Roda Mushkat
• Contragate and the Invalidity of Pardons for Violations of International Law by Jordan J. Paust
• Transboundary Pollution from Mexico: Is Judicial Relief Provided by International Principles of Tort Law? by Margaret M. Sullivan
• Legal Obstacles to Combatting International State-Sponsored Terrorism by Kerry Ann Gurovitsch

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• A Comparative Study of Nonpecuniary Damages in Common Law Countries by Jack Effron
• Civil Forfeiture of Assets: A Final Solution to International Drug Trafficking? by George A. Kurisky, Jr.

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• Potential Effects of the International Sales Convention on U.S. Crude Oil Traders by James W. Skelton, Jr.
• A Bird’s-Eye View of International Copyright: The Piracy of Satellite Programming and the Public Transmission Right by William H. Shute

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• International Law of the Sea of the 1980’s: Exception, Rule, or Trigger? by John King Gamble, Jr

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• The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as Soft Law by John King Gamble, Jr.
• Draft Brief Concerning Claims to Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Human Rights: Nonimmunity for Violations of International Law under the FSIA by Jordan J. Pause
• International Family Planning by Margaret T. Brenner
• The International Court of Justice: Is It Time for a Change? by Keith Wier

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• Space Law/Space WARC: An Analysis of the Space Law Issues Raised at the 1985 ITU World Administrative Radio Conference on the Geostationary Orbit by Milton L. Smith

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• Exchange Control: Act of State, Public Policy, the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, and Other Complications by Joseph Gold

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• Politics Among the Airwaves: An Analysis of Soviet and Western Perspectives on International Broadcasting and the Right to Exchange Ideas and Information Regardless of Frontiers by Bruce S. Kessler

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• Juristic Classification of Islamic Law by Khizr Muazzam Khan
• Preliminary Agreements in International Contract Negotiation by Joanna Schmidt

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• Foreword by René D. Zentner
• Transborder Data Flow: Public and Private International Law Aspects by Houston Putnam Lowry

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• The Trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Protection of Universal Human Rights under International Law by Matthew Lippman
• The International Court of Justice: A Proposal to Amend Its Statute by Anwar-i-Qadeer
• Human Rights Symposium: Further Commentary –International Human Rights and the Alien Tort Statute: Past and Future by Farooq Hassan

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• The Development of the United States Immigration Law Selection System and the Immigration Bar by Charles C. Foster

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• Integrating International Human Rights Law into Domestic Law – U.S. Experience by Richard B. Bilder
• Panacea or Mirage – Domestic Enforcement of International Human Rights Law: Recent Cases by Farooq Hassan
• Problems of Cognition and Interpretation in Applying Norms of Customary International Law of Human Rights in United States Courts by Covey T. Oliver
• International Law as Guarantor of Judicially-Enforceable Rights: A Reply to Professor Oliver by Steven M. Schneebaum

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• An Anthro-Apology For Managing the International Flow of Cultural Property by James A.R. Nafziger

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• International Bankruptcy: Limited Recognition in the New U.S. Bankruptcy Code by Stephen B. James

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• OPEC’s Status under U.S. Antitrust Law: An Application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act by David D. Williams

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• Symposium: The Role of Private Enterprise in Outer Space – International Legal Implications by James A. Michener
• Product Liability in Space Law by P.P.C. Haanappel
• Outer Space Law and Private Enterprise in Outer Space: An International Perspective by Gijsbertha C. M. Reijnen
• Space Industrialization and the Legal Status of Astronauts: Start of a Jurisdictional Head-Scratcher by George S. Robinson
• International Utilization and Management of Space Systems by Delbert D. Smith
• Standby Letter of Credit: Valuable but Still Uncertain Instrument in International Business Transactions by L. Kay Twiford
• International Tax Planning: Recent Conspiracy Prosecution of Tax Attorneys by Robert M. Rosenberg

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• Standards of Procedural Due Process under International Law vs. Preventative Detention in Selected African States by James W. Skelton, Jr.
• Terrorism and Freedom in International Law by Denis G. Touret

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• International Protection of Individual Human Rights: Implications of Individual Status by Elisabeth T. Geibel

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• The United States Approach to Ratification of the International Covenants on Human Rights by James W. Skelton, Jr.
• International Trade Law: Recent Developments by Seymour J. Rubin