Customary international law (CIL) is widely recognized as a fundamental source of
international law. While its continued significance in the age of treaties was once contested …

Private actors interpret legal norms, a phenomenon I call" interpretive entrepreneurship."
The phenomenon is particularly significant in the international context, where many disputes …

Privatization of functions that were traditionally considered sovereign has reached new
heights. International lawyers have responded mostly by seeking to limit some of the …

In recent decades, a robust international market in commercial reproductive surrogacy has
emerged. But, as German citizens Jan Balaz and Susan Lohle discovered when they …

Corporate influence in government is more than a national issue; it is an international
phenomenon. For years, businesses have been infiltrating international legal processes …

In transborder environmental protection, territorial disputes, internet governance,
anticorruption, international human rights, and humanitarian law, private businesses are …

In June 2013, President Obama announced the start of negotiations for a" far-reaching"
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership:" The US-EU relationship is the largest in …

An idiosyncratic array of international rules allows" consultants" to gain special access to
international officials and lawmakers. Historically, many of these consultants were public …

Over the past two decades, there has been a drive to reduce complicated concepts into
simple numbers. Corruption, rule of law, human rights, and more, have all been reduced to …

Human beings are the central problem of politics because they have personal interests, and
they tend to pursue them, even when they are tasked with pursuing the public interest …