Directory

Bibliography

Forthcoming

African Sub-regional Approaches to Human Rights, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain & Mila Versteeg eds., forthcoming) (with Jo Un Eom)
Automating International Human Rights Adjudication, 45 Michigan Journal of International Law (forthcoming) (with Veronica Fikfak)
Contesting Sexual Orientation Rights Before the ECtHR, in International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare (Siri Gloppen & Malcolm Langford eds., forthcoming) (with Clare Ryan)
State Silence in the European Human Rights System, in The Silence of States Across International Law (Danae Azaria, ed., forthcoming) (with Olivia C. Daniels)

Works in Progress

Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights in an Age of Technological Automation (October 1, 2023) (with Giulia Priora)
Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: The Case for a Process-Based Approach (January 1, 2023) (with Başak Çalı)

Books

International Court Authority (Oxford University Press, 2018) (editor with others)
The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals (Oxford University Press, 2017) (with others)
Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017) (Reprinted as Trasplante Jurídico de Tribunales Internacionales: El Derecho y la Política del Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2021)) (with Karen J. Alter)
Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Research Collection (Edward Elgar, 2013) (editor)
Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (with Graeme W. Austin)
Human Rights (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) (with others)
Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: An Overview with Options for National Governments (Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004) (FAO Legislative Study No. 85)

Articles & Essays

Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on Exiting Treaties, in Leading Works in International Law 67-84 (Donna Lyons ed., 2023)
Flexible Institution Building in the International Anti-Corruption Regime: Proposing a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism, 117 American Journal of International Law 559-600 (2023) (with others)
The Meta Oversight Board's Human Rights Future, 44 Cardozo Law Review 2233-2300 (2023) (with Molly K. Land)
Increasing Compliance with International Pandemic Law: International Relations and New Global Health Agreements, 402 The Lancet 1097-1106 (2023) (with others)
The Marrakesh Treaty: Using the Tools of Intellectual Property Law to Advance Human Rights, in Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project 28-37 (Susy Frankel et al. eds., 2023)
Book Reviews, 116 American Journal of International Law 206-210 (2022) (reviewing Zoltán I. Búzás, Evading International Norms: Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality (2021))
LGBT Rights as Mega-Politics: Litigating Before the ECtHR, 84 Law and Contemporary Problems 59-93 (2022) (with Clare Ryan)
Closing International Law's Innocence Gap, 95 Southern California Law Review 311-364 (2021) (with others)
Repensando as derrogações aos tratados de direitos humanos, 11 Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas 141-166 (2021)
Rethinking Derogations from Human Rights Treaties, 115 American Journal of International Law 20-40 (2021) , reprinted as Repensando as derrogações aos tratados de direitos humanos, 11 Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas 141-166 (2021) (Portuguese)
Walking Back Dissents on the European Court of Human Rights: A Rejoinder to Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Mads Andenas, 32 European Journal of International Law 907-914 (2021) (with Erik Voeten)
¿El retroceso de los derechos humanos en Europa?, 2 Revista Jurídica Austral 445-489 (2021) (with Erik Voeten)
Copyright Exceptions Across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty, 42 European Intellectual Property Review 332-340 (2020) (with others)
Introduction to “The International Legal Order and the Global Pandemic”, 114 American Journal of International Law 571-577 (2020) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions: A Survival Guide, in Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses 218-249 (Gerald L. Neuman ed., 2020)
Terminating Treaties, in The Oxford Guide to Treaties 624-640 (Duncan Hollis, ed., 2020)
The New Innovation Frontier Revisited: Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights, in Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights (Paul L.C. Torremans ed., 2020)
Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?, 31 European Journal of International Law 797-827 (2020) , reprinted as ¿El retroceso de los derechos humanos en Europa?, 2 Revista Jurídica Austral 445-489 (2021) (Spanish) (with Erik Voeten)
Introduction to the Symposium on Transnational Futures of International Labor Law, 113 AJIL Unbound 385-389 (2019) (with Adelle Blackett)
Pushback Against Supervisory Systems: Lessons for the ILO from International Human Rights Institutions, in ILO100 – Law for Social Justice 257-278 (George P. Politakis, Tomi Kohiyama & Thomas Lieby eds., 2019)
Taking Stock of Three Generations of Research on Treaty Exit, 52 Israel Law review 103-117 (2019)
The ILO at 100: Institutional Innovation in an Era of Populism, 113 AJIL Unbound 396-401 (2019)
Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations, 63 International Studies Quarterly 449-463 (2019) (with others)
Treaty Exit and Intra-Branch Conflict at the Interface of International and Domestic Law, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law 355-372 (Curtis A. Bradley ed., 2019)
Conclusion: Context, Authority, Power, in International Court Authority 435-460 (Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer & Mikael Rask Madsen eds., 2018) (with others)
How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts, in International Court Authority 24-56 (Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer & Mikael Rask Madsen eds., 2018) (with others)
Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping an Evolving and Contested Relationship, in Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law 117-143 (Rochelle C. Dreyfuss & Justine Pila eds., 2018)
International Court Authority in a Complex World, in International Court Authority 3-23 (Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer & Mikael Rask Madsen eds., 2018) (with others)
International Court Authority in Question: Introduction to Part III, in International Court Authority 365-373 (Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer & Mikael Rask Madsen eds., 2018) (with others)
Sub-regional Courts in Africa: Litigating the Hybrid Right to Free Movement of Persons, 16 International Journal of Constitutional Law 235-253 (2018)
The Andean Tribunal of Justice: From Washington Consensus to Regional Crisis, in International Court Authority 173-195 (Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer & Mikael Rask Madsen eds., 2018) (with Karen J. Alter)
Treaty Exit in the United States: Insights from the United Kingdom or South Africa?, 111 AJIL Unbound 428-433 (2017) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
Introduction to Symposium on Treaty Exit at the Interface of Domestic and International Law, 111 AJIL Unbound 425-427 (2017)
Opposing International Justice: Kenya's Integrated Backlash Strategy Against the ICC, 17 International Criminal Law Review 1-46 (2017) (with Anne E. Showalter)
Backlash Against International Courts in West, East, and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences, 27 European Journal of International Law 293-328 (2016) (reprinted & updated in The Performance of Africa's International Courts 254-299 (James Thuo Gathii, ed., 2020)) (with others)
Can Greece be Expelled from the Eurozone? Toward a Default Rule on Expulsion from International Organizations, in Filling the Gaps in Governance: The Case of Europe 127-150 (Franklin Allen et al eds., 2016) (with others)
Collective Management of Copyright and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited , in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 81-108 (Daniel Gervais ed., 3d ed. 2016)
Customary International Law: An Instrument Choice Perspective, 37 Michigan Journal of International Law 563-609 (2016) (with Ingrid Wuerth)
How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts, 79 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-36 (2016) (with Karen J. Alter & Mikael Rask Madsen)
The Evolution of Codification: A Principal-Agent Theory of the International Law Commission's Influence, in Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World 305-331 (Curtis Bradley, ed., 2016) (with Tim Meyer)
Backlash Against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa, 109 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 27-30 (2015)
Brief for Foreign and Comparative Law Experts Harold Hongju Koh et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners , Obergefell v. Hodges, (U.S. Mar. 6, 2015) (Nos. 14-556, 14-562, 14-571, 14-574)
Mapping the Interface Between Human Rights and Intellectual Property, in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property 6-15 (Christophe Geiger ed., 2015)
Pharmaceutical Patents and the Human Right to Health: The Contested Evolution of the Transnational Legal Order on Access to Medicines, in Transnational Legal Orders 311-339 (Terence Halliday & Greg Shaffer eds., 2015)
International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe, 68 International Organization 77-110 (2014) (with Erik Voeten)
The Effectiveness of International Adjudicators, in Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication 464-482 (Karen J. Alter, Cesare Romano & Yuval Shany eds., 2014)
The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America, in Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle Over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America 247-262 (Rochelle Dreyfuss & César Rodríguez-Garavito eds., 2014) (with Karen J. Alter)
The Successes and Challenges for the European Court, Seen from the Outside , 108 AJIL Unbound 74-78 (2014)
The Successes of and Challenges for the European Court, Seen from the Outside , in The Long-Term Future of the European Court of Human Rights: Proceedings 38-42 (2014)
A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, American Journal of International Law 737-779 (2013) (with others)
Flexibility in International Agreements, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art 175-196 (Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack eds., 2013)
Hollingsworth v. Perry , Brief for Foreign and Comparative Law Experts Harold Hongju Koh et. al. as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, 133 S. Ct. 2652 (2013) (No. 12-244)
Legitimacy and Lawmaking: A Tale of Three International Courts, 14 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 479-503 (2013) (with Karen J. Alter)
The Burdens and Benefits of Brighton, 1 ESIL Reflections 1-6 (2012)
Terminating Treaties, in The Oxford Guide to Treaties 634-649 (Duncan B. Hollis ed., 2012)
Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 60 American Journal of Comparative Law 629-664 (2012) (with others)
Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties, 65 International Organization 673-707 (2011) (reprinted in Human Rights in Emergencies 83-123 (Evan J. Criddle ed., 2016)) (with others)
International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2010 Supreme Court Review 213-272 (2011) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
Legal Integration in the Andes: Law-making by the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 17 European Law Journal 701-715 (2011) (with Karen J. Alter)
Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited, in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 75-103 (Daniel J. Gervais ed., 2010)
Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals, 21 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 65-80 (2010)
Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 64 International Organization 563-592 (Fall 2010) (with Karen J. Alter)
Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community, 103 American Journal of International Law 1-46 (2009) (reprinted with Spanish abstract in 6 Anuario Andino de Derechos Intelectuales (2010)) (with others)
Regime Shifting in the International Intellectual Property System, 7 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 39-44 (2009)
The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community, 41 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 871-930 (2009) (with Karen J. Alter)
Monitoring Compliance with Un-ratified Treaties: The ILO Experience, 71 Law & Contemporary Problems 195-217 (Winter 2008)
Nonconsensual International Lawmaking, 2008 University of Illinois Law Review 71-125 (2008)
Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime, 19 European Journal of International Law 125-159 (2008)
The New Innovation Frontier? Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights, 49 Harvard International Law Journal 1-52 (2008) (reprinted in Intellectual Property and Human Rights (3d ed. Paul Torremans ed., 2015))
Book Review, 101 American Journal of International Law 257-259 (2007) (reviewing The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives (Eyal Benvenisti & Moshe Hirsch eds., 2004))
The Demise and Rebirth of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment on Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1619-1626 (2007)
The Future of the International Labour Organization, 101 American Society of International Law Proceedings 391-394 (2007)
Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property, 40 U.C. Davis Law Review 971-1020 (2007)
Collective Management of Copyright & Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance, in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 85-114 (Daniel Gervais ed, 2006)
Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk and Treaty Design, 31 Yale Journal of International Law 367-382 (2006)
Understanding Change in International Organizations: Globalization and Innovation in the ILO, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 649-726 (2006) (reprinted in International Labour Law (Barbara J. Fick, ed. 2015))
Why States Create International Tribunals: A Theory of Constrained Independence, in International Conflict Resolution 253-276 (Stefan Voigt et al. eds., 2006) (Conferences on New Political Economy v. 23)
An Introduction: New World Order or a World in Disorder? Testing the Limits of International Law, 99 American Society of International Law Proceedings xi (2005) (with Rae Lindsay)
Exiting Treaties, 91 Virginia Law Review 1579-1648 (2005)
Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime: Commentary on Victor Mosoti, in Human Rights and International Trade 180-191 (Thomas Cottier et al. eds., 2005)
Using Intellectual Property Rights to Preserve the Global Genetic Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture, in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime 217-224 (Keith Maskus & J.H. Reichman eds., 2005)
Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo, 93 California Law Review 899-956 (2005) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Legislative Study No. 85, 2004)
International Human Rights Law Informs Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Anti-Gay Sodomy Laws, 14 Interights Bulletin 129-130 (2004)
Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime, 36 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 123-136 (2004)
Politics, Power, and Public Health: A Comment on Public Health's New World Order, 77 Temple Law Review 291-295 (2004)
Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking, 29 Yale Journal of International Law 1-83 (2004)
Whither the UDRP: Autonomous, Americanized or Cosmopolitan?, 12 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 493-505 (2004)
Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System, 37 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 193-237 (2003)
Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?, 5 Minnesota Intellectual Property Review 47-61 (2003) (republished in 22 Netherlands Human Rights Quarterly 167 (2004))
Intellectual Property Rights and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 97 American Society of International Law Proceedings 33-35 (2003)
Transforming International Law After the September 11th Attacks? Three Evolving Paradigms for Regulating International Terrorism, in September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? 180-193 (Mary L. Dudziak ed., 2003)
Overlegalizing Human Rights: International Relations Theory and the Commonwealth Caribbean Backlash Against Human Rights Regimes, 102 Columbia Law Review 1832-1911 (2002)
Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, 43 William and Mary Law review 141-274 (2001) (with Graeme Dinwoodie)
European Court of Human Rights Case Comments, 'Salgueiro da Silva Moutav' and 'A.D.T. v. United Kingdom', 95 American Journal of International Law 422-430 (2001)
International Dispute Settlement at the Trademark-Domain Name Interface, 29 Pepperdine Law Review 87-99 (2001)
Sexual Orientation and the European Court of Human Rights: New Activism or Cautious Incrementalism?, in ACLU International Civil Liberties Report (2001)
Will the United Nations Human Rights Committee Require Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages?, in The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships 733-742 (Robert Wintemute & Mads Andenas eds., 2001)
World Music on a U.S. Stage: An Analysis of the Section 110(5) WTO Dispute, 6 International Intellectual Property Law & Policy 48-1-48-09 (2001)
Litigating Human Rights, California Lawyer (2000) (with Jonathan M. Miller)
International Law, in Gay Histories & Cultures: An Encyclopedia (George E. Haggerty ed., 2000)
Whither NAFTA Dispute Settlement? Lessons from the ECJ, 13 European Community Studies Association Forum Review 2-6 (2000)
World Music on a U.S. Stage: A Berne/TRIPs and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act, 80 Boston University Law Review 93-204 (2000)
Forum Shopping for Human Rights, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 285-400 (1999)
International Decisions: Grant v. Southwest Trains Ltd., 93 American Journal of International Law 200-205 (1999)
Adjudicating Copyright Claims Under the TRIPs Agreement: The Case for a European Human Rights Analogy, 39 Harvard International Law Journal 357-441 (1998) (reprinted in 21 European Intellectual Property Review 8 (1999))
Concretizing Human Rights, 29 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 533-544 (1998) (reviewing Francisco Forest Martin et al., International Human Rights Law and Practice: Cases, Treaties and Materials (1997))
The Effectiveness of the Council of Europe's Human Rights Regime, in Autonomous Policymaking By International Organizations (Reinalda & Verbeek eds., 1998) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication, 107 Yale Law Journal 273-392 (1997) (reprinted in International Protection of Human Rights (Dinah Shelton, ed. 2017)) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Toward a U.S. and Transnational Jurisprudence, 9 Harvard Human Rights Journal 61-104 (1996) (with Alice Miller)
Consensus, Coherence and the European Convention on Human Rights, 26 Cornell International Law Journal 133-165 (1993)
The Politics of Judicial Structure: Creating the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, 25 Connecticut Law Review 155-171 (1992)
Lesbian and Gay Rights as Human Rights: Strategies for a United Europe, 32 Virginia Journal of International Law 157-212 (1991)
Finding a Consensus on Equality: The Homosexual Age of Consent and the European Convention on Human Rights, 65 New York University Law Review 1044-1100 (1990)

Issues Edited

Special Section: Judicializing International Relations, 63 International Studies Quarterly (No. 3, 2019) (with others)
The Variable Authority of International Courts, 79 Law & Contemporary Problems (No. 1, 2016) (co-editor with Karen J. Alter & Mikael Rask Madsen)
Proceedings of the 99th Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law Proceedings (2005) (with Rae Lindsay)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Toward Recognizing an International Human Right to Claim Innocence, Judicature International (November 30, 2022) (with others)
The Gender of Treaty Withdrawal: Lessons From the Istanbul Convention, EJIL: Talk! (November 28, 2022) (with Başak Çali)
Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation, Lawfare (October 27, 2022) (with Molly K. Land)
Russia and the European Human Rights System: Doing the Right Thing … but for the Right Legal Reason?, EJIL:Talk! (March 29, 2022) (with Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou)
Ebb and Flow, 106 Judicature International (January 1, 2022) (with David Collins)
Walking Back Human Rights in Europe, 106 Judicature International (January 1, 2022, at 56) (with Erik Voeten)
Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal?, Lawfare (May 13, 2021) (with Molly K. Land)
The Brexit Decision and Its Implications for U.S. Debates Over Treaty Withdrawal, Lawfare (January 24, 2017) (with Curtis Bradley)
Avoiding a Rush to Exit -- Article 50 and the UK's Withdrawal from the EU, Opinio Juris (June 26, 2016)
Op-Ed., Basic Liberties: U.S. Trails the World on Gay Rights, International Herald Tribune (June 19, 2003, at 16)
Op - Ed., Not Leading the World But Following It, New York Times (June 18, 2003, at A25)
Letter to the Editor, Reviving the United Nations, Washington Post (April 23, 2003, at A34)

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