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Laurence R. Helfer

• Forthcoming

  • Flexibility in International Agreements, in International Law and International Relations:Taking Stock (Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012)
  • Terminating Treaties, in The Oxford Guide to Treaties (Duncan Hollis ed., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012)
  • Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 60 American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming 2012) (with Karen J. Alter & Osvaldo Saldías)
  • The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America, in Balancing Wealth and Health: The Changing Interaction of Transnational and National Intellectual Property Laws and its Impact on Access to Medicines in South America (Rochelle Dreyfuss & César Rodríguez-Garavito eds, forthcoming) (with Karen J. Alter)

• Works in Progress

  • A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa: The Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States (with Karen J. Alter & Jacqueline McAllister)
  • Do European Court of Human Rights Judgments Promote Legal and Policy Change? (October 2011) (with Erik Voeten)

• Books

  • Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (coauthor with Graeme W. Austin)
  • Human Rights (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2009) (with others)

• Issues Edited

  • Proceedings of the 99th Annual Meeting, 99 American Society of International Law Proceedings (2005) (editor with Rae Lindsay)

• Articles and Essays

  • Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties, 65 International Organization 673-707 (2011) (with Emile Hafner-Burton & Christopher J. Fariss)
  • International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2010 Supreme Court Review 213-272 (2011) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
  • Legal Integration in the Andes: Law-making by the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 17 European Law Journal 701-715 (2011) (with Karen J. Alter)
  • Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited, in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 75-103 (Daniel J. Gervais ed., 2d ed. 2010)
  • Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals, 21 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 65-80 (2010)
  • Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice, 64 International Organization 563-592 (Fall 2010) (with Karen J. Alter)
  • Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community, 103 American Journal of International Law 1-46 (2009) (with Karen Alter & Florencia Guerzovich), reprinted with Spanish abstract in 6 Anuario Andino de Derechos Intelectuales (2010)
  • Regime Shifting in the International Intellectual Property System, 7 Perspectives on Politics 39-44 (2009)
  • The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community, 41 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 871-930 (2009) (with Karen J. Alter)
  • Monitoring Compliance with Un-ratified Treaties: The ILO Experience, 71 Law & Contemporary Problems 195-217 (Winter 2008)
  • Nonconsensual International Lawmaking, 2008 University of Illinois Law Review 71-125
  • Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime, 19 European Journal of International Law 125-159 (2008)
  • The New Innovation Frontier? Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights, 49 Harvard International Law Journal 1-52 (2008) reprinted in Human Rights and Intellectual Property 25 (Paul Torremans ed., 2009)
  • Book Review, 101 American Journal of International Law 257-259 (2007) (reviewing Eyal Benvenisti & Moshe Hirsch eds., The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives (2004))
  • The Demise and Rebirth of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment on Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1619-1626 (2007)
  • The Future of the International Labour Organization, 101 American Society of International Law Proceedings 391-394 (2007)
  • Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property, 40 U.C. Davis Law Review 971-1020 (2007)
  • Collective Management of Copyright & Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance, in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 85-114 (Daniel Gervais ed., 2006)
  • Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk and Treaty Design, 31 Yale Journal of International Law 367-382 (2006)
  • Understanding Change in International Organizations: Globalization and Innovation in the ILO, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 649-726 (2006)
  • Why States Create International Tribunals: A Theory of Constrained Independence, in International Conflict Resolution 255-276 (Stefan Voigt et al. eds., 2006)
  • Exiting Treaties, 91 Virginia Law Review 1579-1648 (2005)
  • Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime, in Human Rights and International Trade 180-191 (Thomas Cottier et al. eds., 2005)
  • Using Intellectual Property Rights to Preserve the Global Genetic Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture, in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime 217-224 (Keith Maskus & J.H. Reichman eds., 2005)
  • Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo, 93 California Law Review 899-956 (2005) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
  • Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties:International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments  (FAO Legislative Study No. 85, 2004)
  • International Human Rights Law Informs Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Anti-Gay Sodomy Laws, 14 Interights Bulletin 129-130 (2004)
  • Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime, 36 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 123-136 (2004)
  • Politics, Power, and Public Health: A Comment on Public Health’s New World Order, 77 Temple Law Review 291-295 (2004)
  • Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking, 29 Yale Journal of International Law 1-83 (2004)
  • Whither the UDRP: Autonomous, Americanized or Cosmopolitan?, 12 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 493-505 (2004)
  • Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System, 37 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 193-237 (2003)
  • Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?, 5 Minnesota Intellectual Property Review 47-61 (2003), republished in 22 Netherlands Human Rights Quarterly 167 (2004)
  • Intellectual Property Rights and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 97 American Society of International Law Proceedings 33-35 (2003)
  • Transforming International Law After the September 11th Attacks? Three Evolving Paradigms for Regulating International Terrorism, in September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? 180-193 (Mary L. Dudziak ed., 2003)
  • Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: An Overview with Options for National Governments (FAO Legal Papers Online No. 31, July 2002) (Expert's Report commissioned by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization)
  • Overlegalizing Human Rights: International Relations Theory and the Commonwealth Caribbean Backlash Against Human Rights Regimes, 102 Columbia Law Review 1832-1911 (2002)
  • Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, 43 William & Mary Law Review 141-274 (2001) (with Graeme Dinwoodie)
  • European Court of Human Rights Case Comments, 'Salgueiro da Silva Moutav' and 'A.D.T. v. United Kingdom', 95 American Journal of International Law 422-430 (2001) (discrimination against homosexual parent in child custody case; criminalization of private sexual conduct)
  • International Dispute Settlement at the Trademark-Domain Name Interface, 29 Pepperdine Law Review 87-99 (2001)
  • Sexual Orientation and the European Court of Human Rights: New Activism or Cautious Incrementalism?, in International Civil Liberties Report (ACLU, 2001)
  • Will the U.N. Human Rights Committee Require Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages?, in The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships (Robert Wintemute & Mads Andenas eds., 2001)
  • International Law, in Gay Histories & Cultures: An Encyclopedia 472 (George E. Haggerty ed., 2000)
  • Litigating Human Rights, California Lawyer (Feb. 2000) (with Jonathan M. Miller)
  • Whither NAFTA Dispute Settlement? Lessons from the ECJ, 13(1) European Community Studies Association Forum Review 2-6 (2000)
  • World Music on a U.S. Stage: A Berne/TRIPs and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act,  80 Boston University Law Review 93-204 (2000) 
  • Forum Shopping for Human Rights, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 285-400 (1999)
  • International Decisions: Grant v. Southwest Trains Ltd., 93 American Journal of International Law 200-205 (1999)
  • Adjudicating Copyright Claims Under the TRIPs Agreement: The Case for a European Human Rights Analogy,  39 Harvard International Law Journal 357-441 (1998), reprinted in 21 European Intellectual Property Review 8 (1999)
  • Concretizing Human Rights, 29 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 533-544 (1998), (reviewing  Francisco Forest Martin et al.,  International Human Rights Law and Practice: Cases, Treaties and Materials (1997))
  • The Effectiveness of the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Regime, in Autonomous Policymaking By International Organizations (Reinalda & Verbeek eds., 1998) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
  • Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication, 107 Yale Law Journal 273-392 (1997) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter)
  • Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Toward a U.S. and Transnational Jurisprudence, 9 Harvard Human Rights Journal 61-104 (1996) (with Alice Miller)
  • Consensus, Coherence and the European Convention on Human Rights, 26 Cornell International Law Journal 133-165 (1993)
  • The Politics of Judicial Structure: Creating the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, 25 Connecticut Law Review 155-171 (1992)
  • Lesbian and Gay Rights as Human Rights: Strategies for a United Europe, 32 Virginia Journal of International Law 157-212 (1991)
  • Finding a Consensus on Equality: The Homosexual Age of Consent and the European Convention on Human Rights, 65 New York University Law Review 1044-1100 (1990)

• Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Letter to the Editor, Reviving the United Nations, Washington Post, April 23, 2003, at A34
  • Op - Ed., Not Leading the World But Following It, New York Times, June 18, 2003, at A25
  • Op-Ed., Basic Liberties: U.S. Trails the World on Gay Rights, International Herald Tribune, June 19, 2003, at 16

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