AbstractHow do international adjudicators use precedent? This question has been addressed several times in the literature, but doctrinal accounts have generally failed to consider
the aggregate dimension of the phenomenon. This article seeks to provide an alternative outlook by offering a large-scale computational analysis of the body of jurisprudence [...]
AbstractInternational investment tribunals have increasingly been confronted with allegations of corruption. This includes investors alleging corrupt conduct by public officials
as the basis for a claim, and host States alleging corruption between an investor and host State public officials as a defence. [...]
AbstractThe article looks at customary international law in a broad comparative perspective to show that, whilst the power to determine what customary law demands has been
typically entrusted to authorities acting in the framework of special procedural arrangements, the international variant of customary law has never found a procedural [...]
AbstractWhile international investment tribunals are making increasing reference to the social license to operate in their practice, this concept has not yet received adequate
analysis from either practitioners or from scholars. This article seeks to redress this gap in the literature by providing an in-depth interdisciplinary analysis [...]
AbstractThis article revisits the ‘dispute’ requirement in international interpretation proceedings, highlighting the perils of its indefiniteness as those materialized
in the Ecuador v US permanent court of arbitration (PCA) arbitration and the Avena (Mexico v US) Interpretation Judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). [...]
AbstractThe current predicament of res judicata reads as follows: unquestioned recognition but unpredictable application. The ICJ has continuously pondered over this principle,
always acknowledging it under very similar terms, though enforcement has followed diverse and rather obscure criteria. [...]
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Ahead of Print. Using data (N = 1,803) from the Mobile Youth Survey, a community-based study of risk and resilience among predominantly African
American youth, this study examines whether indicators of parenting and youth psychological distress mediate the relationship between household member arrest and [...]
