Most Recent Articles from Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

• Targeting enemy forces in the war on terror: preserving civilian immunity 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the interpretation given to it by many in the international community (e.g.,...

  05/01/09 by Richard D. Rosen · More from publication

• International legal responses to Kosovo's declaration of independence 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared independence. As of March 6, 2009, fifty-six states have recognized Kosovo's...

  05/01/09 by Jure Vidmar · More from publication

• Treaty bodies and the interpretation of human rights 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The eight United Nations human rights treaty bodies play an important role in establishing the normative content of human...

  05/01/09 by Kerstin Mechlem · More from publication

• The Emperor is still naked: why the protocol on the rights of women in Africa leaves women exposed to more discrimination 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa entered into force in 2005....

  05/01/09 by Kristin Davis · More from publication

• Replacing slingshots with swords: implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 panel report for developing countries and the world trading system 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT In December 2007, the WTO awarded Antigua the right to suspend TRIPS obligations at a value of $21 million. This decision...

  05/01/09 by Georgia Hamann · More from publication

• Honesty is the best policy: a case for the limitation of deceptive police interrogation practices in the United States 

  ABSTRACT ABSTRACT In the United States, police officers regularly employ deceptive interrogation tactics to extract confession evidence from...

  05/01/09 by Irina Khasin · More from publication

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