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Laura Dickinson - Scholarship

Books

• Outsourcing War and Peace (Yale Univ. Press 2009, forthcoming)
• Editor, Empirical Approaches to International Law (Ashgate, 2007).
• Co-editor, International Law Stories (Foundation Press 2007).

Book Chapters

• Public Values/Private Contract, in Outsourcing the U.S. (Jody Freeman & Martha Minow eds., Harvard Univ. Press 2008).
• Abu Ghraib, in International Law Stories (Noyes, Janis & Dickinson eds., Foundation Press 2007).
• Legal Regulation of Private Military Contractors, the New Mercenaries, in International Criminal Law (Cherif Bassiouni ed. 2007).
• Contract as a Tool for Regulating Private Military Companies, in Mercenaries to Market (Simon Chesterman and Chia Lenhardt, eds., Oxford University Press 2007).
• Terrorism and the Limits of Law: the View from Transitional Justice, in Terrorism and the Limits of Law (Austin Sarat et al. eds., Stanford University Press, 2005)
• The Dance of Complementarity: Relationships Among Domestic, International, and Transnational Accountability Mechanisms in East Timor and Indonesia, in The Many Forms of Accountability (Jane Stromseth ed., Transnational Press, 2003).

Journal Articles

• Accountability of Private Security Contractors under International and Domestic Law, 11 Asil Insight (December 26, 2007)
• Toward a "New" New Haven School of International Law? , 32 Yale J. Int'l L. 545 (2007).
• Public Law Values in a Privatized World , 31 Yale J. Int?l L. 384 (2006), (selected for inclusion in Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum).
• Filartiga's Legacy in an Era of Military Privatization,37 Rutgers L.J. 703 (2006).
• Torture and Contract , 37 Case Western Reserve J. Int'l L. 267 (2006).
• Accoutability and the Use of Contracts, Int'l Peace Operations Association Newsletter (2006)
• Government For Hire: Privatizing Foreign Affairs and the Problem of Accountability Under International Law, 47 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 135 (2005)
• Accountability of State and Non-State Actors for Human Rights Abuses in the "War on Terror," 12 Tulsa J. Int'l & Comp. L. 53 (2005).
• The Promise of Hybrid Courts, 97 Am. J. of Int'l L. 295 (2003).
• Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: The Promise of Mixed Tribunals, 31 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y (2002)
• Using Legal Process to Fight Terrorism: Detentions, Military Commissions, International Tribunals, and the Rule of Law, 75 Southern California Law Review 1407 ( 2002).

News & Other Articles

• U.S. Credibility at Stake, Hartford Courant, May 17, 2004
• What's the Rush With Appointing Federal Judges?, Hartford Courant, February 11, 2002.
• Create an International Terrorism Tribunal, Hartford Courant, October 12, 2001.
• An Interview with Laura Dickinson on Responses to September 11th, Corporate Crime Reporter, October 5, 2001.
• Courts Can Avenge September 11th : International Justice, Not War Will Honor Our Character While Preserving Our Safety, Legal Times, September 24, 2001.
• The Case for Going to Court, Washington Post, August 26, 2000.