Robert D. Sloane
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Publications
Forthcoming
"On the Use and Abuse of Necessity in the Law of State Responsibility," American Journal of International Law (forthcoming).
"Taking Stock Ten Years In: COIN, Casualties, and Costs in the Long War - An Introduction," Boston University International Law Journal (forthcoming).
2012
"The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda," in The Rules, Practice, and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals 261, Chiara Giorgetti, ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2012).
"Tibet, Cynical Sinicism, and the Tragedy of Self-Immolations," East Asia Forum (May 9, 2012).
2011
"Introduction," with M. Arsanjani, J. Cogan & S. Weissner, in Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman xv, with M. Arsanjani, J. Cogan & S. Weissner, eds., Martinus Nijhoff (2011).
Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman, with M. Arsanjani, J. Cogan & S. Weissner eds., Martinus Nijhoff (2011).
"More Than What Courts Do: Jurisprudence, Decision, and Dignity--In Brief Encounters and Global Affairs," in Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman 261, with M. Arsanjani, J. Cogan & S. Weissner, eds., Martinus Nijhoff (2011). Originally published in 34 Yale Journal of International Law 517 (2009).
"Puzzles of Proportion: Ethics, Rhetoric, and the Political Foundations of Proportionality in Asymmetric Warfare," in Symposium, New Battlefields/Old Laws: Shaping a Legal Environment for Counterinsurgency, 105 American Society of International Law Proceedings 370 (2011).
"The Puzzling Persistence of Curtiss-Wright-Based Theories of Executive Power," 37 William Mitchell Law Review 5072 (2011).
Tibet's Stateless Nationals II: Tibetan Refugees in India, Tibet Justice Center, general editor & contributing researcher (2011).
2010
"Human Rights for Hedgehogs?: Global Value Pluralism, International Law, and Some Reservations of the Fox," in Symposium Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin's Forthcoming Book, 90 Boston University Law Review 975 (2010).
Book Review, Aaron Fichtelberg, Law at the Vanishing Point, Ashgate (2008), 104 American Journal of International Law 549 (2010).
2009
"Breaking the Genuine Link: The Contemporary International Legal Regulation of Nationality," 50 Harvard International Law Journal 1 (2009).
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"The Constitutionality of Decolonization by Associated Statehood: Puerto Rico's Legal Status Reconsidered," with Gary Lawson, 50 Boston College Law Review 1123 (2009).
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"The Cost of Conflation: Preserving the Dualism of Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello in the Contemporary Law of War," 34 Yale Journal of International Law 47 (2009).
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"More Than What Courts Do: Jurisprudence, Decision, and Dignity--In Brief Encounters and Global Affairs," 34 Yale Journal of International Law 517 (2009).
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2008
Book Review, Mark Drumbl, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law, Cambridge University Press (2007), 102 American Journal of International Law 197 (2008).
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Book Review, B. Van Schaack & R. Slye, International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement, Foundation Press (2007), 6 Journal of International Criminal Justice 399 (2008). [Book Note]
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"The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction," 88 Boston University Law Review 341 (2008).
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"Sentencing," in The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice 509, Antonio Cassese, ed., Oxford University Press (2008).
2007
"The Expressive Capacity of International Punishment: The Limits of the National Law Analogy and the Potential of International Criminal Law," 43 Stanford Journal of International Law 39 (2007). Reprinted as abridged in Crime and Punishment: Emerging Trends, K. Prassana Rani, ed., Amicus Books, ICFAI University Press (2008). Reprinted in full in The Globalization of Criminal Justice 315, Michael Bohlander, ed., Ashgate Publishing Limited (2010).
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"The Policies of State Succession: Harmonizing Self-Determination and Global Order in the Twenty-First Century," review of Tai-Heng Cheng, State Succession and Commercial Obligations, Transnational Publishers Inc. (2006), 30 Fordham International Law Journal 1288 (2007).
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"Prologue to a Voluntarist War Convention," 106 Michigan Law Review 443 (2007). Reprinted as abridged in War Crimes and Law ___, Anila V. Menon, ed., Amicus Books, ICFAI University Press (2008).
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"Sentencing for the 'Crime of Crimes': The Evolving 'Common Law' of Sentencing of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda," 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice 713 (2007).
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2006
"Future Status Options and Processes for Preserving the Right to Self-Determination of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico," with W. Michael Reisman, in S. Hrg. 109-796, Puerto Rico 99, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate (2006). [A Study Prepared for the Status Commission of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico.]
2004
"AEDPA's 'Adjudication on the Merits' Requirement: Collateral Review, Federalism, and Comity," 78 St. John's Law Review 615 (2004).
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"Indirect Expropriation and its Valuation in the BIT Generation," with W. Michael Reisman, 74 British Yearbook of International Law 115 (2004).
"Measures Necessary to Ensure: The ICJ's Provisional Measures Order in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals," 17 Leiden Journal of International Law 673 (2004).
"An Offer of Firm Resettlement," 36 George Washington International Law Review 47 (2004).
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2002
Tibet's Stateless Nationals: Tibetan Refugees in Nepal, Tibet Justice Center (2002).
"The Changing Face of Recognition in International Law: A Case Study of Tibet," 16 Emory International Law Review 107 (2002).
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2001
Designing and Implementing an Effective Legal Strategy for the Enforcement of a Vaccine Purchase-Commitment Contract, with Alison D. Morantz, World Health Organization (2001).
A Generation in Peril: The Lives of Tibetan Children under Chinese Rule, Tibet Justice Center (2001).
Jampa: the Story of Racism in Tibet, with L. Rabgey, M. van Walt, V. Ly, C. Shin & J. Ackerly, International Campaign for Tibet (2001).
"Outrelativizing Relativism: A Liberal Defense of the Universality of International Human Rights," 34 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 527 (2001). Excerpted in International Law Today: A Handbook, A. D'Amato & J. Abbassi eds., West Group (2006).
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"Procedures for Resolving the Kosovo Problem," with W. M. Reisman and M. Hakimi, United Nations Association (2001). [Address to the United Nations Association.]
2000
"The Incident at Cavalese and Strategic Compensation," with W. Michael Reisman, 94 American Journal of International Law 505 (2000).
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Torture in Tibet: A Report to the U.N. Committee Against Torture, U.N. Committee Against Torture (2000).
1999
'Nobody's Children': Jamaican Children in Police Lock-ups and Government Institutions, with R. Ehrenreich, C. Hanchard & G. McGrory, Human Rights Watch (1999).
"International Customary Law and Antipersonnel Landmines: Emergence of a New Customary Norm," with S. Benesch, G. McGrory & C. Rodriguez, in Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1999).