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"A study of law regulating actions or events transcending national frontiers."

Author: Travis Hodgkins is a 2008 graduate of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. John Dermody graduated from UC Hastings in May 2007 and is currently conducting rule-of-law research as a Fulbright Fellow in Sierra Leone. Nema Milaninia another Hastings grad and executive director of the International Studies Journal, a peer publication based in Tehran, Iran.

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Recent Posts from Transnational Law Blog

  • This Blogger Needs a Brief Hiatus

    The time has come for me to take a break from the blogging world and focus my attention on preparing for the California Bar exam. It has been a pleasure blogging throughout my law school…

  • I Want a Certificate in Space Law, Too!

    As I am coming out of finals, graduating from law school, and staring the Bar exam dead in the eye, I am fascinated by this article on Res Communis about the first law student to…

  • Factory in China Accidentally Makes Free Tibet Flags

    A factory in China has been manufacturing 'Free Tibet' flags (h/t Foreign Passport Blog). According to the BBC, the factory owner said the flags were ordered from outside China, and he did not know the…

  • Thinking of China's Loyal Youth

    An editorial by Matthew Forney, former Beijing bureau chief for Time, entitled, China's Loyal Youth, explores some of the reasons why most young Chinese support their government's recent suppression of the Tibetan uprising. Forney's assessment…

  • Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

    An article at IntLawGrrls entitled, The Jolly Roger Still Flies, reminds us that piracy is still a very lucrative business-- I don't mean piracy in the intellectual property sense of the word-- I mean REAL…

  • The U.S. Military's Contemplated Use of the Blogosphere

    While I was perusing the blogosphere about a week ago, I came across a post on Opinio Juris that caught my attention entitled, US Military Thought About Recruiting-- or Hiring-- Bloggers, which discusses a 2006…

  • Seeing The Tibet Situation Clearly: Old Tibet and Democracy for a Future Tibet

    There is always two sides to every story and the same is true about the unrest in Tibet. The state operated Xinhua News issued an editorial today entitled, Don't See Tibet Through Tainted Glasses, which…

  • Comparing the Current Account Balances of the U.S. and China

    The Crashing Down Now blog has a post entitled, The U.S. Account Balance?, which discussed the CIA World Factbook rank order of each country's current account balance. I've never even heard of a country's current…

  • AFRC Appeal: Joint Criminal Enterprise

    This is the second in a series that will post excerpts from the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council Appeal Judgment from the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The section concerns Joint Criminal Enterprise, a mode of…

  • Medellin v. Texas: ICJ decision creates an international obligation, but not domestic law

    This morning’s decision in Medellin v. Texas is the culmination of a long line of cases, both at the ICJ and at the Supreme Court, that have attempted to determine the effect that an ICJ…



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