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EUGENE KONTOROVICH

2018

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• America Recognizes One Jerusalem, Wall Street Journal (May 13, 2018).

2017

Articles

• Unsettled: A Global Study of Settlements in Occupied Territories, Journal of Legal Analysis (Dec. 8, 2017).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Anti-Israel Activists Subvert a Scholarly Group, Wall Street Journal (Dec. 3, 2017).

• Canada Corrects Its 'Made in Israel' Policy. Now It Is Time for the U.S. to Do the Same, Washington Post (Jul. 17, 2017).

• Russia Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital. Why Can’t the U.S.?, Wall Street Journal (May 14, 2017).

• The States, the Feds and Climate Change: Hope Challenges to Paris Beat Back the Doctrine of ‘Implied Preemption’, New York Daily News (Jun. 2, 2017).

• Did George Washington Take 'Emoluments'?, Wall Street Journal (Apr. 13, 2017).

2016

Articles

• Palestine, Uti Possidetis Juris and the Borders of Israel, Arizona Law Review (2016) (Co-authored by: Abraham Bell).

• In re Arctic Sunrise (Netherlands v. Russia) PCA Case No. 2014-02, Merits, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal, August 14, 2015, 110 American Journal of International Law 96 (2016).

• Why Judges Always Vote, 43 International Review of Law and Economics 190 (2015) (Co-authored by: Tonja Jacobi).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Eugene Kontorovich is the editor of ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2016).

• Case note Arctic Sunrise (Netherlands v. Russia) ITLOS Case No. 22, Provisional Measures Order, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, November 22, 2013..

2015

Articles

• Resolution 242 Revisited: New Evidence on the Required Scope of Israeli Withdrawal, 16 Chicago Journal of International Law 127 (2015).

• Can States Fund BDS?: Is Banning the Use of Public Money to Support Companies That Boycott Israel Unconstitutional and Illegal?, Tablet Magazine (July 13, 2015).

• Economic Dealings with Occupied Territories, 53 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 584 (2015).

2014

Articles

• Three International Courts and Their Constitutional Problems, 99 Cornell Law Review 1353-1386 (2014).

• A Court’s Collapse: The International Criminal Court Gives up on its Prosecution of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, National Review Online (September 15, 2014).

• Kiobel Surprise: Unexpected by Scholars but Consistent with International Trends, 89 Notre Dame Law Review 1671-1694 (2014).

2013

Working Papers

• Kiobel Surprise: Unexpected by Scholars but Consistent with International Trends.

• Jurisdiction Over Israeli Settlement Activity in the International Criminal Court.

2012

Articles

• Discretion, Delegation, and Defining in the Constitution’s Law of Nations Clause, 106 Northwestern University Law Review 1675-1751 (2012).

• The Piracy Prosecution Paradox Political and Procedural Problems with Enforcing Order on the High Seas, 13 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs _ (2012).

• A Tort Statute, With Aliens and Pirates, 107 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy _ (2012).

Contributions to Books

• Piracy, in National Security Law In The News: A Guide For Journalists, Scholars and Policymakers 135-143 (Paul Rosenzweig, Timothy J. McNulty and Ellen Shearer eds. 2012).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Prisoner trades and the case for Gitmo, Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices (May 23, 2012).

• Does the new anti-boycott law larm free speech?, Jerusalem Post, 15 (April 12, 2012).

Working Papers

• The Penalties for Piracy: An Empirical Study of National Prosecution of International Crime.

2011

Books

• Justice at Sea: Piracy and the Limits of International Criminal Law (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS under contract).

• Research Handbook on The Economics of Public International Law (EDWARD ELGAR under contract) part of Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series, Richard Posner & Francesco Parisi, eds..

Articles

• Review of economic and philological books on piracy, 41 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 624-627 (2011).

• An Economic Analysis of Fact Witness Payment, 3 Journal of Legal Analysis 139-164 (2011) (Co-authored by: Ezra Friedman).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Is Gaza Still Occupied?, Jerusalem Post (July 17, 2011) (Co-authored by: Paula Kweskin).

• The New Arab Tactic against Israel, National Review Online (May 18, 2011).

• 'Impending diplomatic tsunami' is greatly exaggerated, Jerusalem Post (April 12, 2011).

Working Papers

• Discretion, Delegation, and Defining in the Constitution’s Law of Nations Clause.

• An Economic Analysis of Fact Witness Payment (Co-authored by: Ezra Friedman).

2010

Articles

• An Empirical Examination of Universal Jurisdiction for Piracy, 104 American Journal of International Law (2010) (Co-authored by: Steven Art).

• “A Guantanamo on the Sea”: The Difficulties of Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists, 98 California Law Review 234 (2010).

• International Decisions: United States v. Shi , 103 American Journal of International Law 734-740 (2009).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• A Shining Target on a Hill That Nobody Tires to Hit , Wall Street Journal, W9 (April 15, 2010).

2009

Articles

• The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave-Trade Tribunals , 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 39-115 (2009).

• Introductory Note, Exchange of Letters Between European Union and Kenya to Prosecute Pirates, 48 International Legal Materials 747-750 (2009).

• International Responses to Territorial Conquest , 102 American Society of International Law Proceedings 437-440 (2009).

• International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, 13 Asil Insights (February 6, 2009).

• Why the Piracy Police Isn’t Working , Opinio Juris (February 9, 2009).

• The“Define and Punish” Clause and the Limits of Universal Jurisdiction, 103 Northwestern University Law Review 149 (2009) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Originalism and the Difficulties of History in Foreign Affairs , 53 Saint Louis University Law Journal 39-52 (2008) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Prosecute worldwide pirates, National Law Journal (May 11, 2009).

Working Papers

• The Limits of Judicial Altruism: An Empirical Examination of Universal Jurisdiction for Piracy .

• The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave Trade Tribunals 2531.

2008

Articles

• The ‘Define and Punish’ Clause and Universal Jurisdiction: Recovering the Lost Limits, 103 Northwestern University Law Review Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Beyond the Article I Horizon: Congress’s Enumerated Powers and Universal Jurisdiction Over Drug Crimes, 93 Minnesota Law Review Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• The Inefficiency of Universal Jurisdiction , 2008 University of Illinois Law Review 389-418.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• A Second Look at Kosovo, New York Sun (March 19, 2008).

• Bitter Irony, New York Sun (Feb. 13, 2008).

2007

Articles

• What Standing Is Good For , 93 Virginia Law Review 1663-1727 (2007).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• A Man of His Word, World Jewish Digest (October 2007).

2006

Articles

• Inefficient Customs in International Law , 48 William & Mary Law Review 859 (2006).

• War Powers, Policy Review 77 (April 2006).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Law of the Latke, Green Bag 2d (2006).

• Naked Aggression: Sheba Farms and the Law, New York Sun (Aug. 27, 2006).

2005

Articles

• Disrespecting the “Opinions of Mankind”: International Law in Constitutional Interpretation, 8 Green Bag 2d 261 (2005).

• The Constitution in Two Dimensions: A Transaction Cost Analysis of Constitutional Remedies, 91 Virginia Law Review 1135 (2005).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Religious Radicals, Wall Street Journal (July 22, 2005).

2004

Articles

• Implementing Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain: What Piracy Teaches About the Limits of the Alien Tort Statute, 80 Notre Dame Law Review 111 (2004).

• Liability Rules for Constitutional Rights: The Case of Mass Detentions, 56 Stanford Law Review 755 (2004).

• The Piracy Analogy: Modern Universal Jurisdiction’s Hollow Foundation, 45 Harvard International Law Journal 183 (2004).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Reform strategy for Saudi Arabia, Washington Times (August 1, 2004).

• Severe and prolonged harm: Defining torture in international and U.S. law, Washington Times (June 25, 2004).

2003

Articles

• The Arab League Boycott and WTO Accession: Can Foreign Policy Excuse Discriminatory Sanctions? , 4 Chicago Journal of International Law 283 (2003).

• A to Zzz, Legal Affairs 18-19 (July/August 2003) (Co-authored by: David Lisitza).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Put Ethics on the Front Line, Legal Times (Sept. 22, 2003).

• Is this a good time to ask for Pollard’s release, Jerusalem Post (Aug. 1, 2003).

2002

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Riyadh’s WTO Outrage, New York Post (December 26, 2002).

• Make Them Talk, Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2002).

• The ICC – Open and Shut, Jerusalem Post (May 10, 2002).

• A Dubious Warning, New York Post (January 3, 2002).

2001

Articles

• The Mitigation of Emotional Distress Damages, 68 University of Chicago Law Review 491 (2001).