Embedded in a significant number of international investment agreements are provisions that allow states to invoke essential security interests at times of necessity to limit the application of substantive treaty agreements. These provisions, which are largely devoid of express signatory intent,...

No discussion of access to food is complete without examining famine - an extreme case of food scarcity that has haunted human civilizations throughout history. In addition to creating victims of hunger related deaths and plague, famine leaves an inerasable mark on human culture and community....

The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), a new joint economic venture between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), is a manufacturing center in North Korea that uses North Korean labor and South Korean capital to produce labor-intensive...

Embedded in a significant number of international investment agreements are provisions that allow states to invoke essential security interests at times of necessity to limit the application of substantive treaty agreements. These provisions, which are largely devoid of express signatory intent,...