Strategic Judicial Empowerment 

Pages 170–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad040

When courts seek to strengthen their own institutional power, they often need to be strategic. In many fraught political contexts, judiciaries lack a history of asserting authority against powerful political actors.

The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit 

Pages 109–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae011

In 2010, the United Kingdom issued the world’s first stewardship code. Since then, stewardship codes have been issued in many of the world’s leading economies and now exist in twenty jurisdictions on six continents, with more jurisdictions considering adopting them.

Formal vs. Informal Voluntary Disclosure Policies

Pages 75–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae015

Tax administrations have long grappled with the question of how noncompliant taxpayers should be allowed to correct their tax affairs voluntarily.

Global Value Chains, Labor Rights, and the Nature of Transnational Law 

Pages 33–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae013

This Article develops a framework to analyze the laws that bear on working conditions in global value chains (GVCs), a production structure based on hierarchical international firm networks.

For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals

Pages 1–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae018

Despite the considerable expansion of international law into virtually all areas of modern life, to date there is no international treaty in force to protect the interests of nonhuman animals.

No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq 

Pages 989–1032, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae009

How does variation in the severity of punishment affect public opinion toward the reintegration of former enemy “collaborators” after war?

Reasonableness as Responsiveness in Administrative Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada: Kant and Arendt on the Role of the Community in Deferential Judicial Review

Pages 930–988, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae006

When conducting judicial review of administrative decisions using a deferential standard of review, courts should give a greater role to the decision maker’s responsiveness to the interests of the community of judgment—those directly affected by the decision.

The Legal Metaverse and Comparative Taxonomy: A Reappraisal

Pages 900–929, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae010

The question the present Article poses is whether a fourth pattern of law is now necessary to capture the new technological state of affairs and the new geopolitical balances of power: in particular, should a rule of smart law be introduced?

Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law

Pages 853–899, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae007

Scholars in recent years have shown interest in challenging the historical origins of international law and its normative claims to universality. 

The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion–Equality Conflicts

Pages 789–852, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avae005

In the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia, and many parts of Europe, conflicts between religious liberty and gender equality (including LGBTQ equality) are understood and analyzed as “culture wars.”