This dissertation seeks to develop an account of genocidal intent from a collectivist perspective. Drawing upon the two-layered structure of the crime of genocide composed of the ‘conduct level’ and ‘context level,’ this ...

China has embarked on major economic liberalization reform with the ascension of former President Deng Xiaoping since the late 1970s, which reestablished its national securities markets during the early 1990s. Today, China ...

In this dissertation, through four separately published articles, I address several contentious questions with regard to offensive cyberspace capabilities and the role of international law in the digital era. Offensive ...

Because “Law” is, in essence, a social construction, it cannot be examined separately from the social conditions that produced it. This dissertation looks at the importance of “discourse” as a social condition that ...

This dissertation focuses on discursive interactions among the individual, the market and the state in the public domain of deliberation in public health policies. This inquiry responds to the rise of the modern preventive ...

Law is distinguished by its use of authority. A legal argument has credibility not just because of its logic or consequence, but because of who said it previously. To this extent law is content-independent. Cultural ...

Preventive detention as a counter-terrorism tool is fraught with conceptual and procedural problems and risks of misuse, excess and abuse. Many have debated the inadequacies of the current legal frameworks for detention, ...

This thesis explores the relationship between piercing the corporate veil and conflict of laws through an empirical research of judicial decisions rendered by U.S. courts for a three-year period between 1 January 2012 and ...