Category: Current Online Issue
Cornell Law Review Online
The Leadership Limitation on Persecutors and Terrorist Organizations
Josh A. Roth
J.D. Candidate, Cornell Law School, 2024.
The asylum system in the United States is a melting pot of political discourse, international relations, and novel questions of law. Among other legal requirements, an asylee bears the burden of showing (1) they were persecuted or have a well-founded fear of future persecution and (2) that the persecution was committed by the government or…
May 2023
Cornell Law Review Online
Antitrust Remedies for Fissured Work
Brian Callaci & Sandeep Vaheesan
Chief economist, Open Markets Institute & Legal director, Open Markets Institute
Can parties control independent trading partners through contract? Antitrust law in the United States has confronted this question since its inception. From the 1940s through the 1970s, the Supreme Court generally held that corporations could not control the business decisions of distributors and suppliers using contracts, or vertical restraints in the parlance of antitrust. For…
Mar 2023
Cornell Law Review Online
Weaponizing Code Enforcement
Jennifer Aronsohn
Law clerk to Justice Clint Bolick, Arizona Supreme Court. J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 2021.
Jennifer Aronsohn
Law clerk to Justice Clint Bolick, Arizona Supreme Court. J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 2021.
Zoning has captured the nation’s attention in recent years: community activism has led cities and states to revisit their zoning codes as a means to increase access to affordable housing. The primary focus has been on single family zoning and its exclusionary effect in reinforcing segregation. However, within some municipalities’ zoning code is a less…
Feb 2023
Cornell Law Review Online
An Alternative to Zombieing: Lawfare Between Russian and Ukraine and the Future of International Law
Jill Goldenziel
Professor, National Defense University-College of Information and Cyberspace. Ph.D., A.M., Government, Harvard; J.D. NYU Law; A.B. Princeton
Unlike zombies, Ukraine’s lawfare strategy is very much alive. Ukraine’s lawsuits harm Russia’s reputation in the international community and give states legal ammunition to sanction Russia. Lawfare between Russia and Ukraine will change the future of international law and armed conflict. To explain how and why, this paper proceeds in four parts. Part I briefly…
Jan 2023