The ability to monitor state behavior has become a critical tool of international governance.
Systematic monitoring allows for the creation of numerical indicators that can be used to …

The past forty years have seen a wide proliferation of an extensive range of disputes under
international law concerning cultural heritage. These disputes can concern a disparate …

In the past few decades new laws criminalizing certain transnational activities have
proliferated: from money laundering, corruption, and insider trading to trafficking in weapons …

International political borders have historically performed one overriding function: the
delimitation of a state's territorial jurisdiction, but today they are sites of intense security …

Terrorist participation in illicit trade is not only about revenue generation. It serves many
functions: destruction of history, demoralization of communities, the weakening of social …

International rankings push governments to adopt better policies by providing comparative
information on states' performance. How do citizens respond to this information? We answer …

The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on
criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and …

States with large markets routinely compete with one another to shield domestic regulatory
policies from global pressure, export their rules to other jurisdictions, and provide their firms …

Despite growing scholarly interest in international rankings, we know little on how the public
perceives them. Do rankings bring citizens to favor compliance with international standards …

This article examines the intersection of state policies, private brokers and local employers
that fuels trafficking practices and forced labor of legal labor migrants. Focusing on the I …