Michael J. Kelly

Publications

• Digital Sovereignty and AI: New Threats to Corporate Participation in Internet Governance?
  57 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 43 (2025) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2025
• Legitimacy Throughlines in the Structural Design of International & "Internationalized" Criminal Tribunals
  15 NOTRE DAME J. INT'L & COMP. L. 55 (2025) · Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law · 2025
• War Crime or Ecocide? Ukraine’s Prosecution of Environmental Crimes Committed by Russian Forces
  40 EMORY INT'L L. REV. 3 (2025) · Emory International Law Review · 2025
• The Right to a Healthy Environment: Underlying Policy Formation Challenges in the United States during the Trump Era
  56 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 117 (2024) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2024
• Quiescent Sovereignty of U.S. Territories
  105 MARQ. L. REV. 501 (2022) · Marquette Law Review · 2022
• United Nations Security Council Permanent Membership and the Veto Problem
  52 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 101 (2020) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2020

• Atrocities by Corporate Actors: A Historical Perspective
  50 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 49 (2018) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2018
• The Pre-History of Piracy as a Crime & Its Definitional Odyssey
  46 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 25 (2014) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2014
• "Never Again"? German Chemical Corporation Complicity in the Kurdish Genocide
  31 BERKELEY J. INT'L L. 348 (2013) · Berkeley Journal of International Law · 2013
• United States Ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention: Securing our Navigational Future While Managing China's Blue Water Ambitions
  45 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 461 (2012) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2012
• The Evolution of International Law: Arcs and Cycles
  44 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 41 (2011) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2011
• The Status of Corporations in the Travaux Preparatoires of the Genocide Convention: The Search for Personhood
  43 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 483 (2010) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2010
• The Kurdish Regional Constitution within the Framework of the Iraqi Federal Constitution: A Struggle for Sovereignty, Oil, Ethnic Identity, and the Prospects for a Reverse Supremacy Clause
  114 DICK. L. REV. 707 (2010) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 2010
• The Kurdish Regional Constitution within the Framework of the Iraqi Federal Constitution: A Struggle for Sovereignty, Oil, Ethnic Identity, and the Prospects for a Reverse Supremacy Clause
  114 PENN ST. L. REV. 707 (2010) · Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present) · 2010
• Islam & International Criminal Law: A Brief (In) Compatibility Study
  Pace International Law Review Online Companion · 2010

• Responses to Ten Questions
  35 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. (2009) · William Mitchell Law Review · 2009
• Making Faretta v. California Work Properly: Observations and Proposals for the Administration of Waiver of Counsel Inquiries
  20 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2008) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2008
• Genocide - The Power of a Label
  40 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 147 (2007) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2007
• The Tricky Nature of Proving Genocide against Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi Special Tribunal
  38 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 983 (2005) · Cornell International Law Journal · 2005
• Critical Analysis of the International Court of Justice Ruling on Israel's Security Barrier
  29 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 181 (2005) · Fordham International Law Journal · 2005
• Time Warp to 1945 -- Resurrection of the Reprisal and Anticipatory Self-Defense Doctrines in International Law
  13 FLA. ST. U. J. TRANSNAT'L L. & POL'Y (2003) · Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy · 2003
• Can Sovereigns Be Brought to Justice? The Crime of Genocide's Evolution and the Meaning of the Milosevic Trial
  76 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. (2003) · St. John's Law Review · 2003
• The Bush Foreign Policy 2001-2003: Unilateralist Theory in a Multilateral World, and the Opportunity for Change Offered by Iraq
  2 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 221 (2003) · Washington University Global Studies Law Review · 2003
• Kissinger's World: A Cautionary Tale Through a Cold War Lens
  3 SAN DIEGO INT'L L.J. 133 (2002) · San Diego International Law Journal · 2002
• U.N. Security Counsel Membership: A New Proposal for a Twenty-First Century Council
  31 SETON HALL L. REV. (2000) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2000

• Thinking About the Business of Practicing Law
  52 VAND. L. REV. 985 (1999) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1999
• Bringing a Complaint Under the NAFTA Environmental Side Accord: Difficult Steps Under a Procedural Paper Tiger, but Movement in the Right Direction
  24 PEPP. L. REV. (1996) · Pepperdine Law Review · 1996
• Conflicting Trends in the Flourishing International Trade of Art and Antiquities: <i>Restitutio in Integrum and Possessio animo Ferundil Lucrandi</i>
  14 PENN ST. INT'L L. REV. 31 (1995) · Penn State International Law Review · 1995
• Afterword: Why Deans Stay
  51 MD. L. REV. 483 (1992) · Maryland Law Review · 1992

• Management of Groundwater through Mandatory Conservation
  61 DENV. L. REV. 1 (1983) · Denver Law Review · 1983