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Recent Developments

The Emory International Law Review's new Recent Developments section highlights new and emerging issues in the international law landscape. These shorter pieces tackle current topics, and EILR posts them online immediately after our editing process. They are then compiled with the rest of the Articles and Comments in our printed issues. To submit a Recent Development for publication, please see our Submissions page. Submissions for this section should be between 10-20 pages not including footnotes and should address a current international legal issue.

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EILR Congratulates the Newly-Elected 2012-2013 Executive Board

Editor-in-Chief
Kedar Bhatia

Executive Articles Editor
Frances Ellenbogen

Executive Notes & Comments Editor
Courtney Ginn

Executive Managing Editors
Anne Berlow
Trevor Brice
John Odle
Sara Warren

Executive Special Content Editor
Mithuna Sivaraman

Executive Symposium Editor
Bethanie Barnes

Executive Administrative Editor
Emily Quan

Student Comments Selected for 2012-2013 Publication

Bethanie Barnes, A Critique of the Current U.S.–Russian Adoption Process and Three Recommendations for the Proposed U.S.–Russian Bilateral Adoption Agreement

Kedar Bhatia, Reconsidering the Purely Jurisdictional View of the Alien Tort Statute (W. Richard Smith Founder's Award for Legal Research and Writing)

Tommy Buck, From Big Love to the Big House: Justifying Anti-polygamy Laws in an Age of Expanding Rights

Melissa Curvino, Church–State Cooperation Does Not Violate a Guarantee of Religious Freedom: A Study of the 1978 Spanish Constitution and 1979 Concordat with the Catholic Church

Yilin Ding, Did Beijing Choose the Right Type of Sovereign Immunity for Hong Kong?

Courtney Ginn, Ensuring the Effective Prosecution of Sexually Violent Crimes in the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber: Applying Lessons from the ICTY

Jordan Kearney, Why China's Medical Malpractice Reform Fails To Reform Medical Malpractice

John Odle, Targeted Killings in Yemen and Somalia: Can the United States Target Low-Level Terrorists?

Matthew Parker, Giving Teeth to European Patent Reform: Overcoming Recent Legal Challenges

Alan Payne, Redefining "Atheism" in America: What the United States Could Learn from Europe's Protection of Atheists

Geoff Rathgeber, Gold Medalist to Cheater?: Improving the World's Fight Against Doping in the Wake of Fina v. Cielo

Alex Weaver, Aggravated with Aggregators: Can International Copyright Law Help Save the News Room?