Laurence R. Helfer

Duke University School of Law

Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law

210 Science Dr.

Box 90360

Durham, NC 27708

United States

http://law.duke.edu/fac/helfer/

University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts

Permanent Visiting Professor

University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law

Karen Blixens Plads 16

Copenhagen S, DK-2300

Denmark

http://jura.ku.dk/icourts/

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1.

Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 5, p. 47, 2003, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2003-27, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 04-003
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Oct 2003
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Regime Shifting: The Trips Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, p. 1, 2004, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2003-28, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 04-004
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 21 Oct 2003
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property

U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 971, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-03
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface

Cambridge University Press, 2011, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 10-18, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 134/2017
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 May 2010 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Laurence R. Helfer and Graeme W. Austin
Duke University School of Law and Victoria University of Wellington
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human rights, civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, right to health, intellectual property, TRIPS agreement, authors' rights, copyright, patent, trademark, pharmaceuticals, indigenous peoples, WTO, education, conflict of international laws

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International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe

68:1 International Organization 77-110 (2014)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 May 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2021
Laurence R. Helfer and Erik Voeten
Duke University School of Law and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
Downloads 1,621 (23,441)
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human rights, European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ECtHR, European Union, gay, lesbian, transgender, international courts, international tribunals, conditionality, judicial lawmaking

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The New Innovation Frontier? Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 49, p.1, 2008, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-05, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-05
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Apr 2007
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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intellectual property, trademarks, patents, copyrights, human rights, property rights, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, international courts, international tribunals

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Populism and International Human Rights Institutions: A Survival Guide

Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses 218-249 (Gerald L. Neuman, ed. 2020 Forthcoming), iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 133, 2018, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-50
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 08 May 2020
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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International, Human, Rights, Courts, Institutions, Populism, Law, Backlash, Politics, Survival, Strategies

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Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping an Evolving and Contested Relationship

Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Rochelle C. Dreyfuss & Justine Pila eds, 2018)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2018
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Intellectual property, IP, human rights, economic and social rights, TRIPS, TRIPS Plus, Marrakesh Treaty, IP ceilings, treaty bodies, WIPO, WTO, international regimes, regime shifting, backlash

Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 19, p. 125, 2008, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-20, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-27
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Oct 2007
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, international courts, international tribunals, Council of Europe, docket crisis, institutional reforms, subsidiary, embeddedness

Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 125-159, 2008
Posted: 22 Jun 2008
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law

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Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 141, 2001, Stanford/Yale Jr. Faculty Forum Paper No. 01-05
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Laurence R. Helfer and Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Duke University School of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law
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The Meta Oversight Board's Human Rights Future

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-47, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2023
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2023
Laurence R. Helfer and Molly K. Land
Duke University School of Law and University of Connecticut School of Law
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social media, human rights, technology, cyberlaw, international law, international tribunals, content moderation, facebook, freedom of expression

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Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogation from Human Rights Treaties

International Organization, Vol. 65, p. 673, Fall 2011
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2015
UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, Duke University School of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science
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International Law, Human Rights, Treaties, Flexibility, Derogation, Compliance, Emergencies, Crises, ICCPR

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Terminating Treaties

The Oxford Guide to Treaties (Duncan Hollis ed., 2012), pp. 634-650
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo

California Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 899, 2005, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 05-005, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 05-01, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-10
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Feb 2005
Laurence R. Helfer and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Duke University School of Law and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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International Law and Trade, Dispute Resolution

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Exiting Treaties

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 1579, 2005, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 05-05, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-09
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 11 Mar 2005
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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International Law and Trade, Law Institutions and Development, Law and Economics

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Understanding Change in International Organizations: Globalization and Innovation in the Ilo

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 649, 2006, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-09
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 May 2006
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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labor, labour, international organizations, treaties, international law, ILO, international labor organization, director general

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Collective Management of Copyright and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance

COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS, pp. 85-114, Daniel J. Gervais, ed., Kluwer Law International, 2006, Vanderbilt Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 05-28
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Oct 2005
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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International Dispute Settlement at the Trademark-Domain Name Interface

29 Pepp. L. Rev. 87 2001-2002
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2015
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Backlash Against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences

27 European Journal of International Law, 293-328 (2016), iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 21, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-19
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2019
Karen J. Alter, James Thuo Gathii and Laurence R. Helfer
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Rethinking Derogations from Human Rights Treaties

115(1) American Journal of International Law 20-40 (2021), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-53
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Human Rights, Derogation, Suspension, Emergency, COVID, Treaties, International Law

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How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts

79:1 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-36 (2016)., iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 18, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-13
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2018
Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer and Mikael Rask Madsen
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Duke University School of Law and University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments

Number of pages: 114 Posted: 27 Apr 2005
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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LGBT Rights as Mega-politics: Litigating before the ECtHR

85 L. & Contemp. Probs. 59-93 (2021), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-32, U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3867604
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
Laurence R. Helfer and Clare Ryan
Duke University School of Law and University of Alabama School of Law
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European Court of Human Rights, human rights, LGBT rights, Council of Europe, mega-politcs, international courts

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Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 193, 2003, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 03-12, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2003-16
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Aug 2003
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Overlegalizing Human Rights: International Relations Theory and the Commonwealth Caribbean Backlash Against Human Rights Regimes

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 102, November 2002, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-05, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2002-13
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 20 May 2002
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Nonconsensual International Lawmaking

University of Illinois Law Review, p. 71, 2008, U. of St. Gallen Law & Economics Working Paper No. 26, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-26, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-18
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 05 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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international lawmaking, nonconsensual lawmaking, consent, game theory, participation, compliance, UN Security Council, transnational terrorism, global environmental protection, human rights

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Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, No. 2, November 1997
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 25 Sep 1998 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Duke University School of Law and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations

iCourts Working Paper Series, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 3, September 2019, Pages 449–463
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2019
Karen J. Alter, Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton and Laurence R. Helfer
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy and Duke University School of Law
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international courts, international relations, adjudication, delegation, judicialization, international arbitration, litigants, judges, backlash

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Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice

International Organization, Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 258, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper Series No. 09-16
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Karen J. Alter and Laurence R. Helfer
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Andean Community, Andean Tribunal, International Courts, International Tribunals, European Court of Justice, European Community, Regional Trade, Regional Integration, International Relations, Administrative State, Administrative Agencies, Judicial Politics, Preliminary References

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Flexibility in International Agreements

INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 175-196
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Monitoring Compliance with Un-Ratified Treaties: The ILO Experience

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, p.193, 2008 , Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-14, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-20
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Jul 2007
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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international delegation, international institutions, international organizations, compliance with international law, international labor organization, ILO, international labor law, international monitoring mechanisms

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Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk and Treaty Design

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, p. 367, 2006, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-04, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-08
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Mar 2006
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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international law, treaties, reservations, rational choice

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Pharmaceutical Patents and the Human Right to Health: The Contested Evolution of the Transnational Legal Order on Access to Medicines

Transnational Legal Orders (Terence C. Halliday & Gregory Shaffer, eds. 2015), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-18
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2016
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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patents, medicines, TRIPS, health, right to health, regime complexity, transnational legal orders

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The Effectiveness of International Adjudicators

Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, Karen J. Alter, Cesare Romano and Yuval Shany, eds., 2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
Downloads 397 (154,495)
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international courts, international tribunals, international litigation, effectiveness, compliance, interpretation

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Copyright Exceptions Across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty

42(6) European Intellectual Property Review 332-340 (2020)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Mar 2021
Laurence R. Helfer, Molly K. Land and Ruth Okediji
Duke University School of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law and Harvard Law School
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Marrakesh Treaty, Copyright, Human rights, Blind, Visually impaired persons, Disability, Exceptions, Limitations, Harmonization, Implementation, Publishers

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A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice

107 American Journal of International Law 737-779 (2013)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2015
Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer and Jacqueline R McAllister
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Duke University School of Law and Kenyon College
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international law, human rights, international courts, Africa, West Africa, ECOWAS, regional integration, civil society mobilization

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Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 60(3), p.629 (2012), Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2015
Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer and Osvaldo Saldías
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Duke University School of Law and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society
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European community, Andean community, international courts and tribunals, European Court of Justice, Andean tribunal of justice, regional integration, legal transplants, neofunctionalist theory, ideational diffusion

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Can Greece Be Expelled from the Eurozone? Toward a Default Rule on Expulsion from International Organizations

Filling the Gaps in Governance: The Case of Europe 127-150 (European University Institute 2016)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 May 2016 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2016
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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expulsion, treaty, international organizations, withdrawal, international law, eurozone

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Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited

COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS, Second Ed., Daniel J. Gervais ed., Kluwer Law International, 2010
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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intellectual property, copyright, human rights, creators' rights, authors' rights, Collective Rights Organizations, Collective management organizations, CRO's, collective administration of copyright, neighboring rights

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Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 109, 2009, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-53, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 08-53, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-22, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-41
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Nov 2008
Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter and Florencia Guerzovich
Duke University School of Law, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and Independent
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Andean Community, Andean Tribunal, International Courts, International Tribunals, European Court of Justice, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Patents, Pharmaceuticals, Regional Trade, Regional Integration, International Relations, Institutional Design, Administrative State, Administrative Agency

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International Court Authority (Introduction)

International Court Authority, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198795582, Forthcoming, iCourts Working Paper Series No. 112, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 17-33, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-10
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2020
Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer and Mikael Rask Madsen
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Duke University School of Law and University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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International Law, Legal Authority, Interdisciplinary Research, Comparative Law, International Courts

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International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity

Supreme Court Review, p. 213, 2011
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Curtis Bradley and Laurence R. Helfer
The University of Chicago Law School and Duke University School of Law
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International law, customary international law, CIL, foreign sovereign immunities act, FSIA, foreign official immunity, Executive Branch, jus cogens, international crimes, universal jurisdiction, federal common law, U.S. Supreme Court, Samantar, Alien Tort Statute, ATS, Torture Victim Protection Act

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Customary International Law: An Instrument Choice Perspective

Michigan Journal of International Law, 2016 Vol. 37(4): 563-609, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 15-35, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-49
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2017
Laurence R. Helfer and Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk
Duke University School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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instrument choice; rational choice; customary international law

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Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 196, 31 European Journal of International Law 797–827 (2020), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-50
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Laurence R. Helfer and Erik Voeten
Duke University School of Law and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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European Court of Human Rights, ECtHR, Political Backlash, Human Rights Protection, Interpretation, Minority Opinion

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Legitimacy and Lawmaking: A Tale of Three International Courts

14 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 479 (2013)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2015
Laurence R. Helfer and Karen J. Alter
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The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals (Front Matter)

Oxford University Press, 2017 Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-17
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Jan 2017
Laurence R. Helfer, Molly K. Land, Ruth Okediji and Jerome H. Reichman
Duke University School of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law, Harvard Law School and Duke University School of Law
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copyright, intellectual property, IP, exceptions and limitations, Marrakesh Treaty, blind, visual disabilities, print disabilities, international law, Berne Convention, international IP, three-step test, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, treaty interpretation

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Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Aug 2004
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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International Law & Trade, Intellectual Property, Comparataive Law

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Introduction to 'The International Legal Order and the Global Pandemic'

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Aug 2020
Curtis Bradley and Laurence R. Helfer
The University of Chicago Law School and Duke University School of Law
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pandemic, COVID-19, international law, world health organization, human rights

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Sub-Regional Courts in Africa: Litigating the Hybrid Right to Freedom of Movement

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 32, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-43
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2019
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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free movement, international court, Africa, ECOWAS, East African Court of Justice, SADC, human rights, regional integration, African Charter

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Whither the Udrp: Autonomous, Americanized or Cosmopolitan?

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Aug 2003
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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The Evolution of Codification: A Principal-Agent Theory of the International Law Commission’s Influence

Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World (Curtis Bradley ed., 2015 Forthcoming). , UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-8, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-16
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Laurence R. Helfer and Timothy Meyer
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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customary international law, treaties, codification, International Law Commission, international organizations

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The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community

N.Y.U Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 41, p. 871, 2009, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-06, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-01, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 09-05, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-04
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Laurence R. Helfer and Karen J. Alter
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Andean Community, Andean Tribunal, International Courts, International Tribunals, European Court of Justice, European Union, European Community, Intellectual Property, Regional Trade, Regional Integration, International Relations, Administrative State, Administrative Agencies, Judicial Politics

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Treaty Exit and Intra-Branch Conflict at the Interface of International and Domestic Law

Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series 2018-12
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2018
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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international law, domestic law, treaties, treaty withdrawal, treaty denunciation, foreign relations law, exit

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The Demise and Rebirth of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment on Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 82, p.1619, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-28, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-31
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Jan 2007
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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intellectual property, plant variety protection, plant breeding, international law, international legal regimes, innovation, technological change

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Opposing International Justice: Kenya's Integrated Backlash Strategy Against the ICC

International Criminal Law Review, vol. 17 (1): 1-46 (2017), iCourts Working Paper Series No. 83, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-13
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2019
Laurence R. Helfer and Anne Showalter
Duke University School of Law and United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
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International Criminal Court, ICC, criminal justice, atrocities, Africa, backlash, post-colonialism, Kenya, African Union

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Legal Integration in the Andes: Law-Making by the Andean Tribunal of Justice

European Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 5, p.701, 2011, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-06, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 11-38
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2015
Karen J. Alter and Laurence R. Helfer
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Andean Community, European Community, International Courts and Tribunals, Judicial Lawmaking, regional integration

57.

The New Innovation Frontier Revisited: Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights

Intellectual Property and Human Rights, Fourth Edition (Paul L.C. Torremans, ed., Forthcoming 2020) , Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-68
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 05 May 2020
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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human rights, intellectual property, European Court of Human Rights, right to property

58.

Closing International Law's Innocence Gap

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 95, 2021, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-24
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022
Brandon L. Garrett, Laurence R. Helfer and Jayne Huckerby
Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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innocence, wrongful conviction, human rights, post-conviction review, due process, fair trial, right to appeal, right to a remedy

59.

Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, vol. 21, p. 65, 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 May 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Customary International Law, Treaties, Withdrawal, Denunciation, Exit, International Agreements, Continuing Obligation, International Cooperation, Opt Out

60.

The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America

BALANCING WEALTH AND HEALTH: GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND THE BATTLE OVER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN LATIN AMERICA , Rochelle Dreyfuss & César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds. (2013)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2015
Laurence R. Helfer and Karen J. Alter
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access to medicines, patents, pharmaceuticals, patented medicines, Andean Community, Andean Tribunal of Justice

61.

Pushback Against Supervisory Systems: Lessons for the ILO from International Human Rights Institutions

ILO100 – LAW FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 257-278 (George P. Politakis et al. eds. 2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-55
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2019
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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ILO, international monitoring mechanisms, international labor law, human rights, treaty bodies, supervisory system, pushback, backlash, expansive interpretation

62.

Contesting Sexual Orientation Rights Before the ECtHR

International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare (Siri Gloppen & Malcolm Langford eds., 2023), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-09
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Laurence R. Helfer and Clare Ryan
Duke University School of Law and University of Alabama School of Law
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sexual orienation, human rights, ECtHR, Strasbourg Court, lesbian and gay rights, LGBT rights, Council of Europe, Fedotova v. Russia

63.

Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on Exiting Treaties

in LEADING WORKS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Donna Lyons, ed. 2023), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-34
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2023
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Automating International Human Rights Adjudication

46 Michigan Journal of International Law 69 (2025), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-28
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2025
Veronika Fikfak and Laurence R. Helfer
University College London - School of Public Policy and Duke University School of Law
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human rights, human rights adjudication, automation, machine learning, AI and human rights, bias in automation

65.

Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

Book published by Oxford University Press, this working paper includes the table of contents and introductory chapter of the book., iCourts Working Paper Series No. 73
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2019
Karen J. Alter and Laurence R. Helfer
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International Courts, Preliminary References, Andean Community, Andean, Tribunal of Justice, Regional Integration, European Court of Justice, Intellectual Property, Patented Medicines, Legal Transplants, Jurist Advocacy Networks

66.

Flexible Institution Building in the International Anti-Corruption Regime: Proposing a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism

117 American Journal of International Law 559 (Oct. 2023), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-31
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2023
Laurence R. Helfer, Cecily Rose and Rachel Brewster
Duke University School of Law, Leiden University - Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and Duke University School of Law
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anti-corruption, asset recovery, international institutions, flexibility, IR theory

67.

World Music on a Us Stage: A Berne/Trips and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 93, 2000
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 05 Dec 1999 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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68.

Human Rights Litigation Before Sub-Regional Courts in East and West Africa

Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain & Mila Versteeg eds. 2024) (Forthcoming), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-35
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jul 2023
Jo Un Eom and Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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ECOWAS, East African Community, ECOWAS Court of Justice, EACJ, human rights, African Charter, sub-regional integration

69.

Forum Shopping for Human Rights

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 148, p. 285, 1999
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 23 Nov 1999 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2014
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights in an Age of Technological Automation

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-64
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Nov 2024
Laurence R. Helfer and Giulia Priora
Duke University School of Law and NOVA School of Law Lisbon
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Human rights law, Copyright law, Collective rights management, Collecting societies, International law

71.

The ILO at 100: Institutional Innovation in an Era of Populism

113 AJIL Unbound 396 (2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-57
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2019
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law
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ILO, labor, international organizations, populism, work, workplace protections, informal economy, international standard setting, social protection, international economic law

72.

Treaty Exit in the United States: Insights from the United Kingdom or South Africa?

AJIL Unbound, Volume 111, pp. 428-433, 2018, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-13
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Curtis Bradley and Laurence R. Helfer
The University of Chicago Law School and Duke University School of Law
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international law, comparative law, treaties, treaty withdrawal, foreign relations law, exit

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Introduction to Symposium on Transnational Futures of International Labor Law

113 AJIL Unbound 385 (2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-3
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 17 Jan 2020
Adelle Blackett and Laurence R. Helfer
McGill University - Faculty of Law and Duke University School of Law
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ILO, international labor organization, transnational law, populism, international organizations, centennial, centenary, worker rights, workplace conditions