Volume 59, Issue 2
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Pre-Legislative Indigenous Consultation
March 2026 | Erick Guapizaca Jiménez | Article | This Article seeks to distinguish pre-legislative and preregulatory consultation (together referred to as pre-legislative consultation) from project-based consultation. Pre-legislative consultation covers draft legislation, executive orders, and regulations that create general norms and is triggered when a measure directly affects Indigenous Peoples.
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From Surplus to Sustenance: Confronting Food Waste to Uphold the Right to Food
March 2026 | Emily M. Broad Leib & Noelle Musolino | Article | This Article fills a gap in the literature by describing the ways in which food waste violates the right to food, and how recovery and donation of surplus food can actually ensure the right to food. This Article argues that, given all the options available to reduce food waste, governments that fail to take action to remediate food waste should be seen as violating the right to food.
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Manufacturing Accountability: Towards Executive Adjudication of Foreign Workplace Injuries
March 2026 | Jake Goodman-Palmer | Article | This Article examines four avenues for holding multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for workplace injuries that occur in their value chains and proposes a fifth solution. The four pathways are: human rights tribunals, the selfregulation of firm activity through the promulgation of private standards, tort or delict liability in domestic courts, and a novel proposal to establish an International Court of Civil Justice (ICCJ). This Article synthesizes the literature on all four and assesses the remedies’ strengths and weaknesses.
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Guns for Hire, States in Ruin: An International Regulatory Framework to Combat the Exploitation of Weak States by Private Military Companies
March 2026 | Joshua Hiero | Note | This Note will contribute to existing scholarship on PMC regulation by advancing a novel UN certification framework that certifies and monitors PMCs for human rights violations. This framework will impose standards on PMCs, ensure compliance by home and hiring states, all while keeping the industry an integral part of the global security structure.
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Can A UN Protectorate Provide Resolution to Haitian Instability?
March 2026 | Andrew Wickes | Note | This Note details the history of Haitian social struggles and the transnational interventions that have so far failed to materially improve conditions. Weak Haitian institutions that limit access to justice and unprepared, unfocused UN personnel are common themes that pervade throughout these attempts. In past interventions, the UN has made efforts to respect Haitian sovereignty. But does the crisis in Haiti warrant the UN’s temporary governance over the country? This Note outlines a possible solution to Haitian instability by forming a standardized, modular "UN Protectorate" template based on the UN Mission in Kosovo.