Complex Systems of Property: Change and Resilience After a Catastrophic Disaster 

Pages 1–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad007

This Article applies emerging literature on resilience in complex systems to institutional change in property rights systems. 

Death Penalty Abolitionism from the Enlightenment to Modernity

Pages 46–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad011

The modern movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States stresses that this punishment cannot be applied fairly and effectively.

The Myth of Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration

Pages 98–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad021

This Article traces the concept of transnational public policy as developed in the context of international arbitration at the intersection between legal theory and practice.

Acquisitive Prescription of Artwork and Other High-Value Movables: A Comparative Case Study of Litigation and Legislation in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia 

Pages 142–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad020

Using artwork and other valuables as a high-stakes case study, the Article discusses the law governing acquisitive prescription of movable property in Louisiana, Germany, and Russia. 

Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction

Pages 189-233, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad018

This Article puts forward a novel analogy between animal welfare law and international humanitarian law—two seemingly unrelated bodies of law that are both marked by the aporia of humanizing the inhumane.

Constitutional Dialogue Under Pressure: Constitutional Remedies in Israel as a Test Case

Pages 597–640, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac047

Constitutional dialogue theory has some great qualities. It is balanced, democratic, and deliberative. It has a special legitimacy-enhancing role due to the place that it gives to legislatures and to the political process.

Chemical Pollution and Regulatory Choices at the Start of Industrialization: Comparing France and Great Britain

Pages 558–596, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac046

In both Britain and France, pollution from emergent chemical manufacturing during the early industrial era presented a choice between two regulatory approaches. 

A New Legal Form for Social Enterprises in Asia

Pages 510–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad005

This Article argues that there should be a new legal form for social enterprises in Asia that takes into account the distinctive contexts within which different types of social enterprises operate in the different Asian jurisdictions. 

Corporate Law and Political Economy in a Kleptocracy 

Pages 480–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac041

Described by the U.S. Attorney General as “kleptocracy at its worst,” 1MDB, a Malaysian state-owned company, was a vehicle for theft of billions by the former prime minister for nine years.

The Importance of Being First: Economic and Non-economic Dimensions of Inventorship in American and German Law

447–479, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac043

This Article examines the right to be acknowledged as the first inventor of a new technology in patent law.