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This Essay discusses the challenges to protect the public from a myriad of harms related to new, and poorly understood, vulnerabilities arising from the frontier of cyberspace and how international law can offer protection against the global potential for harm. IS INTERNATIONAL LAW READY FOR THE INFORMATION AGE?

Although the application of legal instruments to international health issues — relative to other areas of international concern — is still at a rudimentary stage of development, the transnational health impacts of globalization provide a rationale for the codification and implementation of global norms to deal with shared problems. The experience of promulgating international agreements in othe...

This Article will discuss the decisions of the Inter-American Court, comparing them with U.S. judicial decisions involving “state action” and private conduct. It will point out the evolution in international law from restraints on the exercise of state power, to the more generalized obligation of ensuring respect for human rights. This Article concludes that the American Convention provides gua...