The University of Georgia School of Law’s Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law (GJICL) is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 1 of its 53rd Volume. 

This issue features three Articles that engage with pressing global legal developments. These include:

• Countries as Laboratories: Reflections on Sierra Leone’s Amended Anti-Human Trafficking Law by Andrea Dennis, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & John Byrd Martin Chair of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
• The Local Impact of the International Standardization of Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Ugandan Case by Thomas Hansen, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and a member of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)
• Will Green Mean “Stop”? Exploring How Combatting the Climate Crisis Impacts on WTO Relevance by Sean Stacy, Doctoral Student, World Trade Institute

Four student Notes were also published on a range of timely topics, including:

• Child Rights: Bangladesh’s Obligations Under the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Minimum Age Conventions by Ella Jones (J.D. ’25), University of Georgia School of Law
• Peach State to Global Debate: Election Technology and Voter Faith by Laura Starling (J.D. ’25), University of Georgia School of Law
• K-Popopoly: Navigating Antitrust Terrain in South Korea’s Music Markets by Elise Joffe (J.D. ’26), University of Georgia School of Law
• Irreparable Harm: How the United States Fails to Remedy Unjust Deportations by Joe Colley (J.D. ’25), University of Georgia School of Law

The GJICL is a preeminent forum for academic discussion on current international subjects. From its inception in 1970 as a student initiative supported by former U.S. Secretary of State and Georgia Law Professor Dean Rusk, GJICL features work by legal scholars and practitioners as well as student notes written by students on GJICL’s editorial board.