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Issue 1

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

• 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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

• 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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

• 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

Issue 3

• 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

Issue 2

• 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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• Mexico’s 1989 Foreign Investment Regulations: The Cornerstone of a New Economic Model by Jorge Camil
• The “Requirement” of Plebiscite in Territorial Rapproachement by Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran
• The Development of Commercial Law for Foreign Investment in China by Will Armstrong
• Controlling the Proliferation of Chemical Weapons: Can the Genie Be Put Back in the Bottle? by Susan McKiernan Low
• Hands Across the Water: Should Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Have Extraterritorial Application? by James McWhorter
• The Eleventh Amendment Surfaces in Florida Dept. of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc. by Daniel J. Reat
• “To Be or Not to Be”: A Look at the Treaty/Statute Conflict Involved in the United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization by Nancy Bolin Vassallo
• Trade-Offs on Free Trade: The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by Linda C. Reif

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• Foreword: Searching for the Mexican Model of Government by Stephen T. Zamora
• Mexico’s Auto Industry: The Last Bastion of Protectionism Falls? by Jorge Camil
• Mexico-United States Relations: Economic Integration and Foreign Investment by Alejandro Ogarrio R.E. & Leonel Pereznieto Castro
• Mexico in Perspective: An Essay on Mexico’s Economic Reform and the Political Consequences by Luis Rubio
• Mexico’s New Foreign Investment Climate by Fernando Sánchez Ugarte
• The New Regulation on Foreign Investment in Mexico: A Difficult Task by Ignacio Gómez-Palacio
• Mexican Taxes on Foreign Investment and Trade by Enrique Calvo Nicolau
• Legal Framework for the Sale of Goods Into Mexico by Eduardo Siqueiros T.
• Countervailing Duties Affecting United States-Mexican Trade by Ernesto Rubio del Cute
• Mexican Law of Judicial Competence by Fernando Alejandro Vázquez Pando
• Mexico’s 1989 Foreign Investment Regulations: A Significant Step Forward, But Is It Enough? by David B. Hodgins

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• Foreword by Richard E. Friedman & John Norton Moore
• The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence Oversight by Daniel B. Silver
• Intelligence Oversight in a Democracy by Elizabeth R. Rindskopf
• Intelligence Oversight and Congress: Practical and Constitutional Imperatives by David B. Rivkin, Jr.
• Remarks of L. Britt Snider by L. Britt Snider
• The Constitution and Covert Action by Bruce E. Fein
• The Constitutionality of the Solicitation or Control of Third-Country Funds for Foreign Policy Purposes by United States Officials Without Congressional Approval by George W. Van Cleve
• The Constitution and the Iran-Contra Affair: Was Congress the Real Lawbreaker? by Robert F. Turner
• Law and the National Security Decision-Making Process in the Reagan Administration by Richard K. Willard
• Remarks of Dr. Walter Pforzheimer by Walter Pforzheimer
• Two Models of Congressional Oversight by John T. Elliff
• Room for “Maneuver”: Some Policy Issues in the Iran-Contra Affair by Paul Schott Stevens
• Congressional Oversight: Impeding the Executive Branch and Abusing the Individual by Victoria Toensing
• Dancing in the Dark: Accepting the Invitation to Struggle in the Context of “Covert Action,” the Iran-Contra Affair and the Intelligence Oversight Process by Americo R. Cinquegrana
• Remarks of Michael J. O’Neil by Michael J. O’Neil
• The Impact of the Iran-Contra Matter on Congressional Oversight of the CIA by Russell J. Bruemmer & Marshall H. Silverberg
• The Iran-Contra Affair and the Intelligence Oversight Process by Abram N. Shulsky
• The Rule of Law and “Perfect Secrecy” by Gary J. Schmidt
• Remarks of C. Boyden Gray by C. Boyden Gray
• Book Review: An Introduction to International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada by S.A. Williams and A.L.C. de Mestral by Daniel C. Turack

Issue 2 (Table of Contents)

• Reflections of Non-Violent Resistance and the Necessity Defense by Matthew Lippman
• Introduction by Malvina Halberstam
• The Extra-Territorial Use of Force Against Terrorist Bases by Oscar Schachter
• 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
• If the News Offends You, Kill the Messenger: A Comment on the U.H. Law Center/A.B.A. Iran-Contra Symposium by Peter Weiss
• The Iran-Contra Affair–A Symptom of Malady? by Ved P. Nanda
• Issues and Policy Considerations Regarding Hazardous Waste Exports by Danny Worrell
• Reciprocation as a Means of Curtailing Diplomatic Immunity Abuse in the United States: The United States Needs to Play Hard Ball by David H. Goodman
• 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
• Terrorism and the Inherent Right of Self Defense (A Call to Amend Article 51 of the United Nations Charter) by Mark B. Baker
• Contragate and the Invalidity of Pardons for Violations of International Law by Jordan J. Paust
• Sidestepping Foreign Bank Secrecy Laws: No Sanctuary in the Fifth Amendment and Little in the Interest of Comity by Craig V. Depew
• Transboundary Pollution from Mexico: Is Judicial Relief Provided by International Principles of Tort Law? by Margaret M. Sullivan
• Resolving Air Resource Disputes on a Transfrontier Basis: El Paso and Ciudad Juarez by Lisa Carol Rivera
• Legal Obstacles to Combatting International State-Sponsored Terrorism by Kerry Ann Gurovitsch
• Book Review: Cross-Border Litigation: Environmental Rights in the Great Lakes Ecosystem by Paul R. Muldoon by Sanford E. Gaines 

Issue 2 (Table of Contents)

• The Failure of Governments to Regulate Industry: A Subsidy Under the GATT? by Kenneth S. Komoroski
• 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.
• Exchanging Excuses for Uses of Force–The Tug of War in the Persian Gulf by Tod Phillips
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca: Liberalizing United States Asylum Law by Mary Jo Paulett-Toumert
• Book Review: Admiralty & Maritime Law by Thomas J. Schoenbaum by C. Andrew Waters

Issue 1

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 1

• 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. Paust
• International Family Planning by Margaret T. Brenner
• The International Court of Justice: Is It Time for a Change? by Keith Wier

Issue 2

• 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

Issue 1

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

Issue 2

• 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

Issue 1

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

Issue 2

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

Issue 1

• 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

Issue 2

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

Issue 1

• 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

Issue 2

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

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Advisory Board

Issue 1 (Table of Contents)

• A Multilateral Agreement on Oil by Anwar-i-Qadeer
• Production Payments in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Lewis & Geoffrey Willoughby
• Flags of Convenience and Oil Pollution: A Threat to National Security? by Richard Payne
• Speech: Role of the IEA in World Energy Supplies by Richard Scott
• Comment: OPEC’s Status under U.S. Antitrust Law: An Application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act by David Williams
• Comment: Canada’s National Energy Program: An Analysis by Charles Getman
• Book Review: The Lawfulness of Deep Seabed Mining by Harry Collins
• Book Review: Legal Development in Arabia: A Selection of Articles and Addresses on the Arabian Gulf by Michael Leavitt

Issue 2 (Table of Contents)

• A New Instrument of Technology Transfer: The European Patent by Joanna Schmidt
• Foreign Investments in the United States–Reporting Requirements by Arthur Zeitler
• International Bankruptcy: Limited Recognition in the New U.S. Bankruptcy Code by Stephen James
• Free Education for Undocumented Clients: What Are the State’s Interests? by David Crump & David Pederson
• Comment: Establishing an Enterprise in Saudi Arabia: A Focus on Joint Limited Liability Partnership, Contract Negotiating, Labor Laws, and Income Tax Consequences for Non-Saudis by Michael Leavitt
• Book Review: Bread Upon the Waters: The Developing Law of the Sea by Mona Lyman

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Symposium: The Role of Private Enterprise in Outer Space: International Legal Implications

• Introduction by James A. Michener
• Free Enterprise and the Proposed Moon Treaty by Art Dula
• Earth Space Transport Systems – Concepts, Criteria & Constraints by William A. Good
• 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. Reijnan
• Space Industrialization and the Legal Status of Astronauts: Start of a Jurisdictional Head-Scratcher by George S. Robinson
• Outer Space Delimitation Proposals: Enlightened Jurisprudence or Celestial Shakedown? Some Implications for Private Enterprise by George Paul Sloup
• International Utilization and Management of Space Systems by Delbert D. Smith
• Hail? No – It’s Skylab by John R. Tamm
• Outer Space: A Preserve for All Humankind by Leslie I. Tennen
• Private Enterprise in Outer Space–A Selected Bibliography by Mary Kate Kell & Stephen B. James
• Comment: The Standby Letter of Credit: Valuable but Still Uncertain Instrument in International Business Transactions by L. Kay Twiford
• Comment: International Tax Planning: Recent Conspiracy Prosecution of Tax Attorneys by Robert M. Rosenberg
• Current Documents: Background: Testimony Presented Concerning the Ixtoc I Oil Spill: Joint Hearings Before the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and Subcommittee on Water Resources of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation, 96th Congress, 1st Session (1979) by Günther Handl and Jordan J. Paust
• The Case for Mexican Liability for Transnational Pollution Damage Resulting from the Ixtoc I Oil Spill by Günther Handl
• The Mexican Oil Spill: Jurisdiction, Immunity, and Acts of State by Jordan J. Paust
• Book Review: Three Arabic-English Dictionaries by Julius V. Szentendrey
• Book Review: Major Trends in the History of Legal Philosophy by David Caudill

Issue 2 (Table of Contents)

• American Investment in Mexico by Gary B. Pitts
• Standards of Procedural Due Process Under International Law vs. Preventative Detention in Selected African States by James W. Skelton, Jr.
• Foreign Trade: An Export Primer by Doak Bishop & Paul Reynolds
• Terrorism and Freedom in International Law by Denis G. Touret
• Enforcement of Foreign Civil and Commercial Judgments in the Mexican Republic by José Luis Siqueiros
• Comment: Troublesome Aspects of the SEDCO 135 Disaster: Has the Plight of the Transnational Pollution Victim Really Improved in the Wake of Torrey Canyon? by Ann Blackwood Crain
• Comment: Breaking Out of the Capitalist Paradigm: The Significance of Ideology in Determining the Sovereign Immunity of Society and Eastern-Bloc Commercial Entities by David S. Caudill
• Book Review: Reference Manual on Doing Business in Latin America by Ewell E. Murphy, Jr.
• Book Review: Law and Judicial Systems of Nations by Paul R. Duplechain
• Book Review: Space Stations: International Law and Politics by Harold J. Delhommer
• Book Review: Israel, the West Bank and International Law by Howard S. Levie

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Introductory Letter

Editor’s Foreword

Issue 1 (Table of Contents)

• The Political Environment for United States Investment in Latin America by John Sloan
• Tax Considerations for United States Operations in Latin America by Paul H. Johnson
• Problems in Financing Latin American Investment by Patricia Votaw
• Legal Problems of Investment in the Andean Common Market by Carlos Ryerson
• Problems of Investment in Latin America in the Petroleum Industry by Diego Giordano Echegoyen
• Foreign Investment Laws of Chile by Benjamin Rencoret R.
• Of Secrets, Planes, and Property: A Scenario by Jordan J. Paust
• International Protection of Individual Human Rights: Implications of Individual Status by Elisabeth T. Geibel

Issue 2 (Table of Contents)

• Self-Determination Outside the Colonial Context: The Birth of Bangladesh in Retrospect by Ved P. Nanda
• Brazil – Petroleum Exploration, Evaluation and Development under the Petrobras Risk Contract System by U. Grant Keener, Jr.
• 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
• A Note on the Creation of the Andean Tribunal by Roberto Mac Lean
• Oil Exploration in Occupied Territory: Sharpening the Focus on Appropriate Legal Standards by Jordan J. Paust