Tara Helfman

Syracuse University - College of Law

Associate Professor

Syracuse, NY 13244-1030

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

7

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577

SSRN CITATIONS

1

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Scholarly Papers (7)

1.

The Dread Pirate Who? Challenges in Interpreting Treaty and Customary International Law in the United States

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 90, 2016 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Sep 2015
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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International Law, Customary International Law, Treaties, Constitutional Law, Maritime Piracy, Maritime Law, Law of the Sea Convention, Federal Courts

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The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Jun 2012
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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abolitionism, human rights, slavery, slave trade, Sierra Leone, admiralty, prize, Robert Thorpe, privateer, Le Louis, Somerset v. Stewart

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Nasty, Brutish and False: Rousseau's State in the International Order

39 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 357 (2012)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Jun 2012
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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law, international law, international legal theory, philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, state, state agency, state responsibility, history, political theory, political science, legal theory, eighteenth-century, natural law, law of nations, Emmerich de Vattel

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Marauders in the Courts: Why the Federal Courts Have Got the Problem of Maritime Piracy (Partly) Wrong

Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jun 2012
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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maritime piracy, international law, law of nations, maritime security, Horn of Africa, Eastern District of Virginia, customary international law, U.S. v. Said, U.S. v. Hasan, U.S. v. Salad

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Commerce on Trial: Neutral Rights and Private Warfare in the Seven Years' War

COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 10 (Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2011)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Jun 2012
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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U.S. v. Windsor and the Judicial Politics of the Roberts Court

Syracuse Journal of Law and Civic Engagement, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jun 2014
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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constitutional law, United States v. Windsor, gay rights, DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act, executive non-defense, judicial politics, same-sex marriage, marriage equality

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Transatlantic Influences on American Corporate Jurisprudence: Theorizing the Corporation in the United States

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Tara Helfman
Syracuse University - College of Law
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corporation; corporate law; supreme court; constitutional law; legal history; john marshall; edward coke; john holt; hugh legare; friedrich carl von savigny