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  • Meiguo, “Beautiful Country”†: An Empirical Study of the Experiences of Chinese Students in U.S. Law Schools (Vol. 57.3)
    While legal education plays an important role in upholding the rule oflaw and protecting the rights of individuals, there is a dearth of research onthe impact of differences in institutional and cultural contexts on legaleducation. This Article examines the impact of educational systems andculture on the law school experiences of American and Chinese students andassesses…
  • Son Preference: An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills, (Vol. 57.2 Spring 2025)
    Despite a plethora of normative discussions on gender equality as well as empirical studies on gender discrimination and gender effects in various settings, there is a paucity of large-scale empirical studies on son preference by ordinary people in asset distribution. Using an idiosyncratic data set on more than 1800 notarized or authenticated wills in Taiwan,…
  • Industrial Policy and the New Internationalism: After the Liberal International Order, (Vol. 57.2, Spring 2025)
    Financial and economic crises, pandemics, border closures, supply chain disruptions, wars, political uncertainty have fundamentally changed the way governments view economic development. Broad-based government interventions are now the order of the day. Many names have been given to the emerging new economics of in-tervention: “homeland economics,” the “new productivism paradigm,” “supply side progressivism,” “neomercantilism,” “new…
  • Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Sea (Vol. 57, Fall 2024)
    This Symposium contribution assesses the ability of international law to evolve to offer essential protections for workers in an increasingly globalized world. It focuses on protections for women seafarers, specifcally around gender-based violence and harassment on board vessels. Even though it is the world’s oldest transnational sector, seafaring remains overwhelmingly male-dominated. Consequently, international law was…
  • Voice, Prevention, Remedy: Key Elements in a Global Supply Chain Convention (Vol. 57, Fall 2024)
    Borrowing from Albert Hirschman’s classic work, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, focused on deteriorating performance in economic organizations, this Article explores the interplay among three key elements of a proposed International Convention on Global Supply Chains (GSCs). In doing so, it suggests that Hirschman’s model may not have adequately appreciated the distinctive role of power in…
  • For Protection or For Profit? Non-State Actors in Global Labor Migration Governance (Vol. 57, Fall 2024)
    Development economists have sounded the alarm: we face a global demographic crisis that threatens massive global labor shortages and resulting economic doom. According to the World Bank, demographic growth patterns are intensifying global competition for workers and talent, creating a “great divergence.” On the one hand, advanced economies face aging societies, where the ratio of…