Newton, MA--The winter issue of the Boston College International & Comparative Law Review (Volume 35.1) is now available. The issue includes two articles and one essay by outside authors. Hengameh Saberi scrutinizes the New Haven School of international law and its place in the intellectual history of international law. John C. Duncan, Jr. stakes out thought-provoking positions in a fresh analysis of the jurisprudence of land acquisition by nation-states. Sarah Joseph's essay offers a novel take on the role of social media in political uprisings in general, and in the Arab Spring in particular.

Volume 35.1 also features four notes by BC Law students. Tim Donahue examines how the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act has been applied to foreign fugitive reward offers. Jason Burke compares the legal regimes governing the protection of journalists' confidential sources in Canada and the United States. Laura Mehalko analyzes the international impact of U.S. domestic gun control policy with a specific focus on Mexican drug cartels. Finally, Ron Kendler dissects the decades-old quarrel in the WTO between the United States and the European Union over government involvement in the market for commercial airplane manufacturing.

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