Jonathan C. Hamilton, “A Half-Century of Latin American Legal and Policy Analysis” (2014)

A half century of Virginia Journal of International Law archives on Latin American law and policy are now available on Latin Arbitration Law, revealing a valuable collection of articles from the oldest continuously published student-edited journal of international law based at the University of Virginia. Jonathan C. Hamilton served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal during law school at the University of Virginia, and subsequently served on its Board of Advisors.

The Virginia Journal of International Law (VJIL, pronounced "vigil") is the oldest continuously published, student-edited journal of international law in the world, based at the University of Virginia School of Law. The VJIL archives reveal a collection of articles spanning more than fifty years that trace the development of legal and policy analysis related to Latin America. This special collection of articles reflects the forefront of analysis on Latin American issues spanning recent decades.

Writing in the 1960s, former VJIL advisor and subsequent Judge of the International Court of Justice Hardy Cross Dillard summed up the contributions of VJIL as follows; “Some years back the notion prevailed, at least in unenlightened quarters, that international law was merely a polite curricular ornament to be viewed with tolerant indulgence by students, mild skepticism by the faculty and benign indifference by the bar.  The Virginia Journal of International Law adds another testimonial to the vacuity of this notion.” This collection of Latin American articles is a further testimonial indeed.

Susan D. Franck The ICSID Effect? Considering Potential Variations in Arbitration Awards

51 VA. J. INT'L L. 825

(2011)

Charles H. Brower II Nunca Más or Déjà Vu? 47 VA. J. INT'L L. 525

(2007)

Ruth Wedgwood International Criminal Law and Augusto

Pinochet

40 VA. J. INT'L L. 829

(2000)

1990-1999

Kathryn Cameron

Atkinson, Andrea K.

Bjorklund & Lucinda A.

Low

The Inter-American Convention Against

Corruption: A Comparison With the United

States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

38 VA. J. INT'L L. 243

(1998)

Martin A. Geer Foreigners in Their Own Land: Cultural

Land And Transnational Corporations-

Emergent International Rights And Wrongs

38 VA. J. INT'L L. 331

(1998)

Claire A. Hill Latin American Securitization: The Case Of

The Disappearing Political Risk

38 VA. J. INT'L L. 293

(1998)

Maria Dakolias A Strategy for Judicial Reform: The

Experience in Latin America

36 VA. J. INT'L L. 167

(1995)

Frank J. Garcia NAFTA and the Creation of the FTAA: A

Critique of Piecemeal Accession

35 VA. J. INT'L L. 539

(1995)

Jose Daniel Amado Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign

Judgments in Latin American Countries: An

Overview and Update

31 VA. J. INT'L L. 99

(1990)

1980-1989

Christopher C. Joyner

& Michael A. Grimaldi

The United States and Nicaragua:

Reflections on the Lawfulness of

Contemporary Intervention

25 VA. J. INT'L L. 621

(1985)

William N. Eskridge, Jr. Les Jeux Sont Faits: Structural Origins of

the International Debt Problem

25 VA. J. INT'L L. 281

(1985)

J. Robert Maguire The Decolonization of Belize: Self-

Determination v. Territorial Integrity

22 VA. J. INT'L L. 849

(1982)

Kenneth R. Lee Peacekeeping and Human Rights: A Proposed

OAS Response to Civil Strife in Latin America

22 VA. J. INT'L L. 293

(1982)

1970-1979

Keith S. Rosenn Expropriation in Argentina and Brazil:

Theory and Practice

15 VA. J. INT'L L. 277

(1975)

Mitchell E. Abbott Epidemiology in the Americas: International

Treaties for the Prevention of Diseases

15 VA. J. INT'L L. 151

(1974)

John M. Paxman Argentine Foreign Investment Incentives:

Quixotic Nationalism Challenges the

Windfall

12 VA. J. INT'L L. 240

(1972)

Beverly May Carl Erosion of Constitutional Rights of Political

Offenders in Brazil

12 VA. J. INT'L L. 157

(1972)

Paul C. Szasz The Investment Disputes Convention and

Latin America

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 256

(1971)

William D. Rogers United States lnvestment in Latin America:

A Critical Appraisal

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 246

(1971)

Joseph Grunwald Foreign Private Investment: The Challenge

of Latin American Nationalism

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 228

(1971)

Enrique V. Iglesias Structural Change in the Latin American

Development Model: A Challenge for the

1970's

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 203

(1971)

Covey T. Oliver Speculations on Developing Country

Reception of Multinational Enterprise

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 192

(1971)

Domingo Santa María Perspectives on Spanish American Legal

Norms Governing Mining Concessions,

11 VA. J. INT'L L. 177

(1971)

Robert K. Goldman The International Monetary Fund: its Code

of Good Behavior and the Uruguayan

Stablization Program of 1968

10 VA. J. INT'L L. 359

(1970)

1960-1969

Michael J. McDermott &

William H. Weiland

Latin American Experience with Economic

Integration

10 VA. J. INT'L L. 139

(1969)

Boris Kozolchyk Law and the Credit Structure in Latin

America

7 VA. J. INT'L L. 1 (1967)

Edwin C. Hoyt Law and Politics in the Revision of

Treaties Affecting the Panama Canal

6 VA. J. INT'L L. 289

(1966)

Richard L. Fischer The Cuban Seizures-In the Direction of a

Remedy

6 VA. J. INT'L L. 41

(1965)

Michael Roy

Sonnenreich

Protecting the United States Minority

Shareholder in Joint International

Business Ventures in Latin America

5 VA. J. INT'L L. 1 (1964)

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