Christiana Ochoa

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Herman B Wells Class of 1950 Professor of Law

211 S. Indiana Avenue

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

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1.

The Individual and Customary International Law Formation

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 119-186, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 75
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 01 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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custom, customary international law, CIL, international law, human rights, individuals, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan

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The 2008 Ruggie Report: A Framework for Business and Human Rights

ASIL Insights, Vol. 12, No. 12, June 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 110
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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transnational corporations, human rights, corporate social responsibility, governance, John Ruggie

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Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of International Law: Identifying and Defining CIL Post Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 105, 2006
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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International Law, Customary International Law, human rights, Alien Tort Claims Act, Alien Tort Statute, norms, sovereignty, individual, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism

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The Human Rights Potential of Sovereign Wealth Funds

40 Geo. J. Int’l L. 1151 (2009), Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-27, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 132
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2021
Christiana Ochoa and Patrick Keenan
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 684 (59,385)
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sovereign wealth funds, SWFs, human rights, development, Africa, venture capital, microfinance, International Finance Corporation, IFC, Sovereign Funds Initiative, corruption, rent-seeking, patronage

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Regulating Information Flows, Regulating Conflict: An Analysis of United States Conflict Minerals Legislation

Goettingen Journal of International Law, Vol. 3, 2011, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 10-39, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 191
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2021
Christiana Ochoa and Patrick Keenan
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
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Conflict, Conflict Commodities, Conflict Commerce, Mining, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dodd-Frank, 1502, Information Forcing, Human Rights, International Law, SEC

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Compliance: Lessons from the International Law - International Relations Discourse

Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Vol. 9, 2011, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 179
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 415 (109,889)
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Business, Corporations, Human Rights, International Environmental Law, Environmental Protection, Corruption, International Anti-Corruption, International Relations, International Law, Compliance Theory, Global Governance

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From Odious Debt to Odious Finance: Avoiding the Externalities of a Functional Odious Debt Doctrine

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 87
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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odious debt, sovereign debt, odious finance, debt relief, expropriation, debt reduction, corruption, natural resources, natural resource exploitation, labor, corporate social responsibility, international law

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Advancing the Language of Human Rights in a Global Economic Order: An Analysis of a Discourse

57 Boston College Third World Law Journal 23 (2003), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2015
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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human rights, transnational corporations, international economic organizations

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Nature's Rights

11 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 39 (2021), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 477
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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rights of nature, nature's rights, environmental personhood, non-human personhood, environment, earth law

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Book Review: Companies, International Trade and Human Rights, by Janet Dine

Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 27, 2005, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 52
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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human rights, international trade

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The Relationship of Participatory Democracy to Participatory Law Formation

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 101
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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democracy, participatory democracy, law-making, law making, participatory law-making, customary international law, CIL

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Contracts on the Seabed

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2021, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 430
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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seabed mining, deep sea mining, license agreements, oceans, mineral exploration, mineral exploitation, mining, mining contract, seafloor, marine environment, natural resources, economic development, EEZ, continental shelf, territorial ocean, Pacific Island Nations, South Pacific, Vanuatu

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Access to U.S. Federal Courts as a Forum for Human Rights Disputes: Pluralism and the Alien Tort Claims Act

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 12, p. 631, 2005, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 46
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2015
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Customary International Law, Alien Tort Claims Act, Alien Tort Statute, legal pluralism, civic pluralism, human rights

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The IFC's New Africa, Latin America, and Caribbean Fund: Its Worrisome Start, and How to Fix it

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 194, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-44
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 May 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2013
Patrick Keenan and Christiana Ochoa
University of Illinois College of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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sovereign wealth funds, SWFs, human rights, development, Africa, venture capital, microfinance, International Finance Corporation, IFC, ALAC, Sovereign Funds Initiative, corruption, rent-seeking, patronage

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Disintegrating Customary International Law: Reactions to Withdrawing from Custom

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 178, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, Vol. 21, 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Customary International Law, CIL, Withrawing From CIL, Withdrawing fom Custom, Symmetrical Entrenchment, Contract, Agency

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Guatemala's Gender Equality Reforms: CIL in the Making

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 83, 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 134
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2013
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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international law, transnational networks, gender equality, women's rights, human rights, CIL, customary international law, democratic deficit

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Deals in the Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, and How Law Can Help

107 Minnesota Law Review 1054 (2023) , Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 479
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2023
Christiana Ochoa, Kacey Cook and Hanna Weil
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, Maurer School of Law, Students and University of Minnesota Law School
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wind energy, renewable energy, climate crisis, wind farm, contracts, Free Prior Informed Consent, FPIC, development, Mid-West, Zoning, economic agreements, rural communities, formalism, informal institutions, rural communities, social upheaval, local law, law in action

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Generating Conflict: Gold, Water and Vulnerable Communities in the Colombian Highlands

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 377, NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW PERSPECTIVES Routledge Press (Tan & Foundez, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Mining, Gold, Human Rights, Extractive Industry, Water, Conflict, Human Rights, Development, Paramo de Santurban, Colombia

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Intransigence, Transition, Transformation: Natural Resources and Conflict Under Latin America's Modern Constitutions

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 468
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Nov 2021
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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transformative constitutionalism, Ius Constitutionale Commune, human rights, natural resources, rights of nature, nature's rights, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia

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The Future of Corporate Accountability for Violations of Human Rights

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 465, 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings 281
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, International Law, Due Diligence, Rule of Law

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Introduction: Democracy and the Transnational Private Sector

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 464
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Democracy, Private Sector, Globalization, Participatory Law Formation, Customary Transnational Law, Global Politics,

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Business & Human Rights: Optimism and Concern

Law & Business Research Vol. 8:1 (2018), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 467
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2022
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Business & Human Rights, Human Rights, Zero Draft, Treaty, Transnational Corporations

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Introduction: Human Rights and Legal Systems Across the Global South Symposium

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2011, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 466
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Christiana Ochoa and Shane Greene
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University
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Global South, Africa, Central America, Latin America, Asia, Third World, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Legal Pluralism,

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Transferring Wealth, Developing Poverty

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 281
Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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human rights, development, natural resources, mining, gold, foreign direct investment, environment, activism, politics, law & development, Greystar, EcoOro, Paramo de Santurban, Colombia

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The Underappreciated Externalities of a Functional Odious Debt Doctrine

Posted: 01 Feb 2007
Christiana Ochoa
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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odious debt, debt, international law, human rights, succession, international finance