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Building on Washington University's distinguished reputation, Global Studies presents outstanding articles, book reviews, essays, and notes from prestigious academics, practitioners and prominent students to expand the global community's knowledge and understanding of real-world issues. Global Studies Law Review publishes quarterly.

Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026

Introduction


On Twenty-Five Years of Global Studies

Adesola Orogade

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 751-753

From Promise to Precarity: Rethinking International Law After a Quarter Century

Melissa J. Durkee

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 754-760

Essay


Trade Law in an Era of Geopolitical Rivalry: National Security, the Dilemma for Middle Powers, and the Future of the WTO

Rachel Brewster

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 761-774

Artificial Intelligence as an Equalizer? Linguistic Barriers and Inequality in Transnational Legal Practice

Ji Li

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 775-799

Remark


A New Wave of Atrocity Accountability: The Age of Aggression

David M. Crane

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 800-804

Article


International Commercial Law and Innovation in Global Digital Markets: Pre-History, History, and Post-History

Susan Block-Lieb

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 805-840

States as Gatekeepers in Global Governance

Kristina Daugirdas

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 841-847

Infrastructural Ordering: Satellites, Foundation Models, and the Corporate Remaking of Global Governance

Moritz A. Schramm

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 848-875

Epilogue


The Habit of Return: International Law at a Quarter Century

Susan Wu

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026 • 877-880

Symposium


TRANSCRIPT: To the Hague and the Beyond: The Shifting Terrain of International Criminal Justice

Leila Nadya Sadat, Valerie Oosterveld, Sharon Weill, Nancy Combs and David M. Crane

2026-06-01 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026

TRANSCRIPT: After Doha, After WTO? Rethinking Trade and Economic Law in a Fragmented World

Lawrence J. Liu, Harlan G. Cohen, Desirée LeClercq, Rachel Brewster and Ji Li

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026

TRANSCRIPT: Who Governs the Global Commons? Technology, Private Power, and the New Architectures of Authority

Melissa J. Durkee, Susan Block-Lieb, Moritz A. Schramm and Kristina Daugirdas

2026-06-02 Volume 25 • Issue 4 • 2026