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Documents from 2023

Prosecuting Gender Persecution at the ICC: Definitions, Policies, and Practice, Milena Sterio and Yvonne Dutton

The ICC’s 2022 Gender Persecution Policy in Context: An Important Next Step Forward, Milena Sterio and Yvonne Dutton

The United States Can and Should Broadly Contribute to the Trust Fund for Victims, Milena Sterio and Yvonne Dutton

The War in Ukraine and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court, Milena Sterio and Yvonne Dutton

Dueling Denominators and the Demise of Lucas, Stewart E. Sterk

Mitigating Catastrophe Risk for Landowners, Stewart E. Sterk

Trust Decanting: A Critical Perspective, Stewart E. Sterk

A Knock on Knick's Revival of Federal Takings Litigation, Stewart Sterk and Michael Pollack

105. Appellate review of child sexual abuse convictions: The importance of character evidence, Suzanne St. George, Hayden Henderson, Michaela Flippin, Stacia N. Stolzenberg, and Thomas D. Lyon

Future Conflicts, Civilian Harm, and the CHMR-AP - Part I, Dan E. Stigall

Future Conflicts, Civilian Harm, and the CHMR-AP - Part II, Dan E. Stigall

The expansion of the transnational counterterrorism order after 9/11, Dan E. Stigall

The New U.S. Department of Defense Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response, Dan E. Stigall

War, Law, and the Paths We Take, Dan E. Stigall

The US Supreme Court Has Called Life "The Most Basic Human Right", Richard Stith

Chinese Translation: Breaching the Taboo? Constitutional Dimensions of the New Chinese Civil Code, Alec Stone Sweet

Constitutions, Rights, and Judicial Power, Alec Stone Sweet

Constitutions, Rights, and Judicial Power, Alec Stone Sweet

Global Constitutionalism and the People’s Republic of China: Dignity as the “Fundamental Basis” of the Legal System?, Alec Stone Sweet

The Law and Politics of the General Principles of Law in the 21st Century, Alec Stone Sweet

Breaching the Taboo? Constitutional Dimensions of the New Chinese Civil Code, Alec Stone Sweet, Chong Bu, and Zhuo Ding

Privacy in Discovery after Dobbs, Allyson Haynes Stuart

Book Review: International Space Law and Space Laws of the United States, by Steve Mirmina & Caryn Schenewerk, Mark J. Sundahl

The Artemis Theory of Warfare, Mark J. Sundahl

How Private Companies and NASA’s Artemis Accords Will Shape the Future of Space Law, Mark J. Sundahl and Caylan E. Fazio

101. Elaborations and denials in children’s responses to yes-no any/some questions in forensic interviews., Zsofia A. Szojka, Hayden M. Henderson, Jina Hur, Hannah Siepmann, and Thomas D. Lyon

102. Attorneys’ questions and children’s responses referring to the nature of sexual touch in child sexual abuse trials., Zsofia A. Szojka, Nika Moussavi, Cara Burditt, and Thomas D. Lyon

107. Children’s elaborated responses to yes-no questions in forensic interviews about sexual abuse, Zsofia Szojka and Thomas D. Lyon

Policing Necessity, François Tanguay-Renaud

State Crimes, François Tanguay-Renaud

The Role of the ABA’s “Summits” in Facilitating Global Networks and International Cross-Border Legal Practice, Laurel S. Terry

Biden's Infrastructure Plan: A New Commitment to Public Goods?, Matthew Titolo

Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law and American Democracy, Matthew Titolo

Age Discrimination and the Personhood of Children and Youth, Jonathan Todres

Incorporating the CRC and Its Optional Protocols in the United States, Jonathan Todres

Making Children's Rights Widely Known, Jonathan Todres

Work-Life Balance and the Need to Give Law Students a Break, Jonathan Todres

The Trauma of Trump's Family Separation and Child Detention Actions: A Children's Rights Perspective, Jonathan Todres and Daniela V. Fink

Introduction, Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King

Boundedly Rational Entrepreneurs and Antitrust, Avishalom Tor

Comment: On Contractual Defaults and Experimental Law and Economics, Avishalom Tor

Digital Nudges: Contours and Challenges, Avishalom Tor

Foreword: Advances in the Behavioral Analysis of Law: Markets, Institutions, and Contracts, Avishalom Tor

Justifying Competition Law in the Face of Consumers' Bounded Reality, Avishalom Tor

Some Challenges Facing a Behaviorally-Informed Approach to the Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices, Avishalom Tor

The Critical and Problematic Role of Bounded Rationality in Nudging, Avishalom Tor

The Law and Economics of Behavioral Regulation, Avishalom Tor

The Market, The Firm, and Behavioral Antitrust, Avishalom Tor

The Next Generation of Behavioural Law and Economics, Avishalom Tor

The Private Costs of Behavioral Interventions, Avishalom Tor

The Target Opportunity Costs of Successful Nudges, Avishalom Tor

Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments: Explaining Decision Errors in the Monty Hall Game, the Acquiring a Company Problem, and Multiparty Ultimatums, Avishalom Tor and Max Bazerman

Social Comparison and Competition: General Frameworks, Focused Models, and Emerging Phenomena, Avishalom Tor and Stephen M. Garcia

The N-Effect: Beyond Probability Judgments, Avishalom Tor and Stephen M. Garcia

The Neuroscience of Social Comparison and Competition, Avishalom Tor and Stephen M. Garcia

Social Comparison Before, During, and After the Competition, Avishalom Tor, Stephen M. Garcia, and Zachary A. Reese

When Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? Revisiting Benartzi et al. (2017), Avishalom Tor and Jonathan Klick

Consumer Law and Economics, Avishalom Tor and Klaus Mathis

Law and Economics of Regulation, Avishalom Tor and Klaus Mathis

Law and Economics of the Coronavirus Crisis, Avishalom Tor and Klaus Mathis

Law and Economics of the Digital Transformation, Avishalom Tor and Klaus Mathis

El resarcimiento por daños y perjuicios y la pensión de alimentos como mecanismos de protección al conviviente abandonado, Marco Andrei Torres Maldonado

Tribute to Professor Joan Shaughnessy, Alan M. Trammell, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Mary Z. Natkin, Brian C. Murchison, Mark H. Grunewald, Barry Sullivan, and Michelle L. Drumbl

Tribute to Professor Joan Shaughnessy, Alan M. Trammell, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Mary Z. Natkin, Brian C. Murchison, Mark H. Grunewald, Barry Sullivan, and Michelle L. Drumbl

The Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Debate Emerges from the Soil of Climate Denial, Lawrence J. Trautman and Neal Newman

Retrospective insights on the impacts of the Catholic robot SanTO, Gabriele Trovato and Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Never Complain, Never Explain: Why Robots May not Have to be Explicable After All, Gabriele Trovato, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, and Yegang Du

Book review - Ruth Dukes, Labour’s Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour Law, Eric Tucker

The Trial of Thomas More - Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Jonathan K. Van Patten

The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, Robert R.M. Verchick

Brands Flock to Chicago Court in War on Internet Counterfeiters, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

New FTC Order Pressures Tech Platforms Over Fraudulent Ads, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Prof. Wasserman spoke with the ABA Journal, Howard M. Wasserman

Abandoning Metaphors and Reclaiming Impairment, Mark C. Weber

Special Education Cause Lawyers, Mark C. Weber

From the Frying Pan to the Fire: SCOTUS’ FSIA Inaction as Further Permitting Executive Branch Intervention in “Takings Exception” Cases and its Consequences in Forcing Holocaust Plaintiffs to Return to Europe, Richard Weisberg

The '4-D's: A Critical Appraisal of Legal Education, Richard Weisberg

A Basic Introduction to Robot Ethics, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

A Comparative Data Protection Analysis of Healthcare Robots: On Informed Consent in Human-Robot Interaction, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Cultural Dimensions of Digital Ethics, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

ELSI and AI Robots, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Ethical Design and Standardization for Robot Governance, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Ethical Design and the Governance for Social Robots, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

FRIS Symposium on Social Robots and Ethical Design - Program (Version 2.0), Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Interdisciplinary Sciences (Ethics), Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Regulatory Challenges of Social Robots: From the Aspect of Ethical Design, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Toward Design-Centered Governance for Social Robots, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

AI Governance from the view of IEEE's International Standardization Activities, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Chi-Hsiung Chen, Bo-An Chen, and Feng-Chi Chen

Retaliation, Rebecca Hanner White and Michael Z. Green

War Crimes: History, Basic Concepts, and Structures, Richard J. Wilson

The Multilateral Climate Regime, David A. Wirth

The Easterbrook Theorem: An Application to Digital Markets, Joshua D. Wright and Murat C. Mungan

Black Letter Outline on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes, 4th ed., Kevin M. Yamamoto and Samuel A. Donaldson

Black Letter Outline on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes, 5th ed., Kevin M. Yamamoto and Samuel A. Donaldson

Black Letter Outline on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes, 6th ed., Kevin M. Yamamoto and Samuel A. Donaldson

Mediation in den USA, Douglas H. Yarn

The Anticorruption Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Corruption Beneficial Owner Rule, Stuart S. Yeh

The Social Enterprise Zoo : A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers, Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, and Cassady V. Brewer

The Social Enterprise Zoo : A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers, Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, and Cassady V. Brewer

Deferring Intellectual Property Rights in Pandemic Times, Peter K. Yu