Laurence R. Helfer
Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Law
Laurence R. Helfer is an expert in the areas of international law and institutions, international adjudication and dispute settlement, human rights (including LGBT rights), and international intellectual property law and policy. He is co-director of Duke Law's Center for International and Comparative Law and a Senior Fellow with Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. He also serves as a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts: Center of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014. Helfer currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law.
Prior to joining the Duke Law faculty in 2009, Helfer was a professor of law and director of the International Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Princeton University, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of World Intellectual Property.
Helfer has authored more than 100 publications and has lectured widely on his diverse research interests. He is the coauthor of Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017); The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals (Oxford University Press, 2017); Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Human Rights (2d ed., Foundation Press, 2009). He has also published International Court Authority (Oxford University Press, 2018) (co-editor); Intellectual Property and Human Rights (Edward Elgar, 2013) (editor), and a monograph, Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments (2004), with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. His articles have appeared in leading American law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Law and Contemporary Problems, as well as in numerous peer-reviewed political science and international law journals, such as International Organization.
Helfer holds a JD from New York University, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was articles editor of the New York University Law Review. He also holds an MPA from Princeton University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a BA from Yale University. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before beginning his academic career, Helfer practiced with the New York law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinksy & Lieberman, P.C., focusing on international law, intellectual property litigation, and civil liberties.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2009
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2009
Contact Information
- Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Law School Room 3184, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
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helfer@law.duke.edu
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- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- J.D., New York University 1992
- M.P.A., Princeton University 1992
- B.A., Yale University 1987
- Recognition
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In the News
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- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and M. Madsen. International Court Authority. Oxford University Press, 2018.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., M. Land, R. Okediji, and J. Reichman. The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals. Oxford University Press, 2017.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice. Oxford University Press, 2017.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice (Accepted). Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Helfer, L. Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Research Collection. Edward Elgar, 2013.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and G. Austin. Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. Cambridge University Press, 2011.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., L. Henkin, S. Cleveland, G. Neuman, and D. Orentlicher. Human Rights. Foundation Press, 2009.Link to Item
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Academic Articles
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Helfer, Laurence R., Rachel Brewster, and Cecily Rose. “Institution-Building in the International Anti-Corruption Regime: A Proposal for a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism (In preparation),” 2023.
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Başak Çalı. “Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals (In preparation),” 2023.
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Molly K. Land. “The Meta Oversight Board's Human Rights Future (Accepted).” Cardozo Law Review 44, no. 6 (2023).Link to Item
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Veronica Fifak. “Automating Human Rights Adjudication (In preparation),” 2023.
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Helfer, L. “Book Reviews.” American Journal of International Law 116, no. 1 (2022): 206–10.
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Helfer, L., and C. Ryan. “LGBT Rights as Mega-Politics: Litigating Before the ECtHR.” Law and Contemporary Problems 84, no. 3 (2022): 59–93.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., B. Garrett, and J. Huckerby. “Closing International Law's Innocence Gap.” Southern California Law Review 95, no. 2 (2021): 311–64.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and E. Voeten. “Walking Back Dissents on the European Court of Human Rights: A Rejoinder to Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Mads Andenas.” European Journal of International Law 32, no. 3 (2021): 907–14.Link to Item
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Helfer, Laurence R. “Rethinking Derogations from Human Rights Treaties.” American Journal of International Law 115, no. 1 (2021): 20–40.Link to Item
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Helfer, Laurence R. “Repensando as derrogações aos tratados de direitos humanos.” Revista Brasileira De Políticas Públicas 11, no. 2 (2021): 141–66.Link to Item
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Erik Voeten. “¿El retroceso de los derechos humanos en Europa?” Revista Jurídica Austral 2, no. 2 (2021): 445–89.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions: A Survival Guide,” 2020, 218–49.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and C. Bradley. “Introduction to “The International Legal Order and the Global Pandemic”.” American Journal of International Law 114, no. 4 (2020): 571–77.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., M. Land, and R. Okediji. “Copyright Exceptions Across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty.” European Intellectual Property Review 42, no. 6 (2020): 332–40.Link to Item
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Erik Voeten. “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” European Journal of International Law 31, no. 3 (2020): 797–827.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Treaty Exit and Intra-Branch Conflict at the Interface of International and Domestic Law,” 2019, 355–72.
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Helfer, L. “Pushback Against Supervisory Systems: Lessons for the ILO from International Human Rights Institutions,” 2019, 257–78.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The ILO at 100: Institutional Innovation in an Era of Populism.” Ajil Unbound 113 (2019): 396–401.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and E. Hafner-Burton. “Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations.” International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 3 (2019): 449–63.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and A. Blackett. “Introduction to the Symposium on Transnational Futures of International Labor Law.” Ajil Unbound 113 (2019): 385–89.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Taking Stock of Three Generations of Research on Treaty Exit.” Israel Law Review 52, no. 1 (2019): 103–17.
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Helfer, L. “Sub-regional Courts in Africa: Litigating the Hybrid Right to Free Movement of Persons.” International Journal of Constitutional Law 16, no. 1 (2018): 235–53.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Introduction to Symposium on Treaty Exit at the Interface of Domestic and International Law.” Ajil Unbound 111 (2017): 425–27.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and A. Showalter. “Opposing International Justice: Kenya's Integrated Backlash Strategy Against the ICC.” International Criminal Law Review 17 (2017): 1–46.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and C. Bradley. “Treaty Exit in the United States: Insights from the United Kingdom or South Africa?” Ajil Unbound 111 (2017): 428–33.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts.” Law & Contemporary Problems 79, no. 1 (2016): 1–36.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., J. Blocher, and M. Gulati. “Can Greece be Expelled from the Eurozone? Toward a Default Rule on Expulsion from International Organizations,” 2016, 127–50.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., J. Gathii, and K. Alter. “Backlash Against International Courts in West, East, and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences.” European Journal of International Law 27 (2016): 293–328.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and E. Alter. “The Judicialization of International Relations (In preparation),” 2016.
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Helfer, L., and I. Wuerth. “Customary International Law: An Instrument Choice Perspective.” Michigan Journal of International Law 37 (2016): 563–609.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and T. Meyer. “The Evolution of Codification: A Principal-Agent Theory of the International Law Commission's Influence,” 2016, 305–31.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Backlash Against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa.” Proceedings of the Asil Annual Meeting 109 (2015): 27–30.
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Helfer, L., and E. Voeten. “International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe.” International Organization 68 (2014): 77–110.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and J. McAllister. “A New International Human Rights Court for West Africa: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.” American Journal of International Law, 2013, 737–79.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “Legitimacy and Lawmaking: A Tale of Three International Courts.” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14 (2013): 479–503.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Burdens and Benefits of Brighton.” Esil Reflections 1 (2012): 1–6.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and O. Saldas. “Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice.” American Journal of Comparative Law 60 (2012): 629–64.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., E. Hafner-Burton, and C. Fariss. “Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties.” International Organization 65 (2011): 673–707.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and C. Bradley. “International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity.” Supreme Court Review 2010 (2011): 213–72.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “Legal Integration in the Andes: Law-making by the Andean Tribunal of Justice.” European Law Journal 17 (2011): 701–15.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 21 (2010): 65–80.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice.” International Organization 64 (2010): 563–92.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Regime Shifting in the International Intellectual Property System.” Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 7 (2009): 39–44.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and F. Guerzovich. “Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community.” American Journal of International Law 103 (2009): 1–46.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community.” New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 41 (2009): 871–930.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Nonconsensual International Lawmaking.” University of Illinois Law Review 2008 (2008): 71–125.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The New Innovation Frontier? Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights.” Harvard International Law Journal 49 (2008): 1–52.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime.” European Journal of International Law 19 (2008): 125–59.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Monitoring Compliance with Un-ratified Treaties: The ILO Experience.” Law & Contemporary Problems 71 (2008): 195–217.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property.” U.C. Davis Law Review 40 (2007): 971–1020.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Future of the International Labour Organization.” American Society of International Law Proceedings 101 (2007): 391–94.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Book Review.” American Journal of International Law 101 (2007): 257–59.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Demise and Rebirth of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment on Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes.” Chicago Kent Law Review 82 (2007): 1619–26.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk and Treaty Design.” Yale Journal of International Law 31 (2006): 367–82.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Understanding Change in International Organizations: Globalization and Innovation in the ILO.” Vanderbilt Law Review 59 (2006): 649–726.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Exiting Treaties.” Virginia Law Review 91 (2005): 1579–1648.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and A. M. Slaughter. “Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo.” California Law Review 93 (2005): 899–956.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and R. Lindsay. “An Introduction: New World Order or a World in Disorder? Testing the Limits of International Law.” American Society of International Law Proceedings 99 (2005): xi.
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Helfer, L. “Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime.” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 36 (2004): 123–36.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking.” Yale Journal of International Law 29 (2004): 1–83.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Whither the UDRP: Autonomous, Americanized or Cosmopolitan?” Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 12 (2004): 493–505.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “International Human Rights Law Informs Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Anti-Gay Sodomy Laws.” Interights Bulletin 14 (2004): 129–30.
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Helfer, L. “Politics, Power, and Public Health: A Comment on Public Health's New World Order.” Temple Law Review 77 (2004): 291–95.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Intellectual Property Rights and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.” American Society of International Law Proceedings 97 (2003): 33–35.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?” Minnesota Intellectual Property Review 5 (2003): 47–61.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System.” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 37 (2003): 193–237.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: An Overview with Options for National Governments.” Fao Legal Papers Online, 2002.
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Helfer, L. “International Dispute Settlement at the Trademark-Domain Name Interface.” Pepperdine Law Review 29 (2001): 87–99.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “European Court of Human Rights Case Comments, 'Salgueiro da Silva Moutav' and 'A.D.T. v. United Kingdom'.” American Journal of International Law 95 (2001): 422–30.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “World Music on a U.S. Stage: An Analysis of the Section 110(5) WTO Dispute.” International Intellectual Property Law & Policy 6 (2001).
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Helfer, L., and G. Dinwoodie. “Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.” William and Mary Law Review 43 (2001): 141–274.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Whither NAFTA Dispute Settlement? Lessons from the ECJ.” European Community Studies Association Forum Review 13 (2000): 2–6.
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Helfer, L. “World Music on a U.S. Stage: A Berne/TRIPs and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act.” Boston University Law Review 80 (2000): 93–204.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and J. Miller. “Litigating Human Rights.” California Lawyer, 2000.
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Helfer, L. “International Decisions: Grant v. Southwest Trains Ltd.” American Journal of International Law 93 (1999): 200–205.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Forum Shopping for Human Rights.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 148 (1999): 285–400.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Adjudicating Copyright Claims Under the TRIPs Agreement: The Case for a European Human Rights Analogy.” Harvard International Law Journal 39 (1998): 357–441.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and A. -. M. Slaughter. “Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication.” Yale Law Journal 107 (1997): 273–392.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., and A. Miller. “Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: Toward a U.S. and Transnational Jurisprudence.” Harvard Human Rights Journal 9 (1996): 61–104.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Consensus, Coherence and the European Convention on Human Rights.” Cornell International Law Journal 26 (1993): 133–65.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Politics of Judicial Structure: Creating the United States Court of Veterans Appeals.” Connecticut Law Review 25 (1992): 155–71.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Lesbian and Gay Rights as Human Rights: Strategies for a United Europe.” Virginia Journal of International Law 32 (1991): 157–212.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Finding a Consensus on Equality: The Homosexual Age of Consent and the European Convention on Human Rights.” New York University Law Review 65 (1990): 1044–1100.Link to Item
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Book Sections
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Helfer, L., and J. Eom. “African Sub-Regional Approaches to Human Rights (Accepted).” In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press, 2023.
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Helfer, L., and O. Daniels. “State Silence in the European Human Rights System (Accepted).” In The Silence of States Across International Law, 2023.
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Clare Ryan. “Contesting Sexual Orientation Rights Before the ECtHR (Accepted).” In International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare. Cambridge University Press, 2023.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on “Exiting Treaties” (Accepted).” In Leading Works in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Helfer, L. “The Marrakesh VIP Treaty: Using the Tools of IP law to Advance Human Rights (Accepted).” In Improving Intellectual Property Law. Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Helfer, L., and C. Ryan. “Contesting LGBT Rights Before Supranational Courts: Evidence From Third Party Submissions to the ECtHR (Accepted).” In International Adjudicators & Megapolitics, 2021.
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Helfer, L. “Terminating Treaties.” In The Oxford Guide to Treaties, 624–40. Oxford University Press, 2020.
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Helfer, L. “The New Innovation Frontier Revisited: Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights.” In Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights. Kluwer Law International, 2020.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Authority of the Andean Tribunal of Justice within a Diminishing Regional Integration Project (Accepted).” In International Court Authority. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L. “Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping an Evolving and Contested Relationship.” In Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law, 117, 2018.Link to Item
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and M. Madsen. “International Court Authority in a Complex World.” In International Court Authority, 3–23. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and M. Madsen. “How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts.” In International Court Authority, 24–56. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and M. Madsen. “International Court Authority in Question: Introduction to Part III.” In International Court Authority, 365–73. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L., K. Alter, and M. Madsen. “Conclusion: Context, Authority, Power.” In International Court Authority, 435–60. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “The Andean Tribunal of Justice: From Washington Consensus to Regional Crisis.” In International Court Authority, 173–95. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Helfer, L. “Collective Management of Copyright and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited.” In Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, 81–108, 2016.
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Helfer, L., M. Madsen, and K. Hanson. “The Authority of International Courts (Accepted).” In Authority of International Courts in a Complex World, 2016.
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Helfer, L. “Pharmaceutical Patents and the Human Right to Health: The Contested Evolution of the Transnational Legal Order on Access to Medicines.” In Transnational Legal Orders, 311–39, 2015.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Mapping the Interface Between Human Rights and Intellectual Property.” In Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property, 6–15. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Effectiveness of International Adjudicators.” In Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, 464–82, 2014.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “The Successes and Challenges for the European Court, Seen from the Outside.” In Proceedings of the Conference on the Long-Term Future of the European Court of Human Rights, 38–42. Council of Europe, 2014.
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Helfer, L., and K. Alter. “The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America.” In Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle Over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America, 247–62, 2014.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Flexibility in International Agreements.” In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art, 175–96, 2013.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Terminating Treaties.” In The Oxford Guide to Treaties, 634–49, 2012.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited.” In Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, 75–103, 2010.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Collective Management of Copyright & Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance.” In Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, 85–114, 2006.
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Helfer, L. R. “Comment II: Using intellectual property rights to preserve the global genetic commons: The international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.” In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 217–24, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494529.011.Full Text
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Helfer, L. “Using Intellectual Property Rights to Preserve the Global Genetic Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture.” In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 217–24, 2005.
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Helfer, L. “Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime: Commentary on Victor Mosoti.” In Human Rights and International Trade, 180–91, 2005.
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Helfer, L. “Transforming International Law After the September 11th Attacks? Three Evolving Paradigms for Regulating International Terrorism.” In September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?, 180–93, 2003.
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Helfer, L. “Will the U.N. Human Rights Committee Require Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages?” In The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships, 2001.
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Helfer, L. “Sexual Orientation and the European Court of Human Rights: New Activism or Cautious Incrementalism?” In International Civil Liberties Report. ACLU, 2001.
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Helfer, L. “International Law.” In Gay Histories & Cultures: An Encyclopedia, 2000.
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Helfer, L., and A. M. Slaughter. “The Effectiveness of the Council of Europe's Human Rights Regime.” In Autonomous Policymaking By International Organizations, 1998.
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Other Articles
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Helfer, L., and K. Dzehtsiarou. “Russia and the European Human Rights System: Doing the Right Thing … but for the Right Legal Reason?” Ejil:Talk!, 2022.
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Başak Çali. “The Gender of Treaty Withdrawal: Lessons From the Istanbul Convention.” Ejil: Talk!, 2022.
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Helfer, Laurence R., and Molly K. Land. “Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation.” Lawfare, 2022.
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Helfer, L., and M. Land. “Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal?” Lawfare, 2021.
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Helfer, L., and C. Bradley. “The Brexit Decision and Its Implications for U.S. Debates Over Treaty Withdrawal.” Lawfare, 2017.
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Helfer, L. “Avoiding a Rush to Exit -- Article 50 and the UK's Withdrawal from the EU.” Opinio Juris, 2016.
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Helfer, L. “Op - Ed., Not Leading the World But Following It.” New York Times, 2003.
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Helfer, L. “Op-Ed., Basic Liberties: U.S. Trails the World on Gay Rights.” International Herald Tribune, 2003.
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Helfer, L. “Letter to the Editor, Reviving the United Nations.” Washington Post, 2003.
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Reports
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Helfer, L. “The Successes and Challenges for the European Court, Seen From the Outside.” Council of Europe, 2014.Link to Item
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Helfer, L. “Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004.Link to Item
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Conference Papers
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Helfer, L. “Why States Create International Tribunals: A Theory of Constrained Independence,” 253–76, 2006.
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Helfer, L. “Overlegalizing Human Rights: International Relations Theory and the Commonwealth Caribbean Backlash Against Human Rights Regimes.” In Columbia Law Review, 102:1832–1911, 2002.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- LAW 275: International Law 2023
- LAW 206L: Authority and Legitimacy in International Adjudication 2022
- LAW 275: International Law 2022
- LAW 623: Externship Associated Research Paper 2022
- LAW 627: Externship Research Tutorial 2022
- LAW 206L: Authority and Legitimacy in International Adjudication 2021
- LAW 275: International Law 2021
- LAW 501: Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts 2021
- LAW 640: Independent Research 2021
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