The Business of Human Trafficking: How Combating Human Trafficking From a Commercial and Economic Approach Could Be a Source of Progress

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Third-Party Privacy Interests Implicated by Cell Tower Dumps and the Inefficacy of the Warrant Requirement to Protect Them: Post-Carpenter Judicial and Statutory Remedies

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Cashing in On Culture? Dove and the CROWN Act

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Between a Law and a Pandemic: How COVID-19 Has Exacerbated FOSTA-SESTA’s Impact on Sex Workers

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The Infringement Notice System Under Hong Kong's Competition Law: Using the EU as a Benchmark

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What Does "Foreseeable" Mean? The Scope of Damages Under CISG Articles 74-77: Reasonability Principle of Foreseeability - We Don't Need a Crystal Ball

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The Two Voices of Federal Law on "Arbitrability": Substantive Common Law, Federalism, and Choice of Law for International Commercial Arbitration Agreements

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Front Matter Volume 40 Issue 2

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Tax Treaty Interpretation in the U.S. and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties—Is There Room for Compromise?

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Land Laws and Foreign Direct Investment in Myanmar: Why American Investors Need to Reconsider the Customary Rights of Smallholder Farmers

This article looks into the issue of the government’s usage of land laws to release land from the smallholder farmers in Myanmar, which is considered not just a matter of striking a delicate balance between an individual’s customary rights of land tenure versus the need for more efficient land redistribution to sustain the country's economic development, but also about how social stability of the rural villages in Myanmar are uprooted when the agricultural livelihood and homes of those smallholder farmers are taken away by the government’s new land policies, and how cultivation flexibility and labor employment of small-scale agriculture have been sacrificed for the introduction of large-scale farming. Given the ample investment opportunities available at both ends of the supply chain in Myanmar, American investors have to be aware of the need to sustain their corporate social responsibilities by avoiding unnecessary suffering being done to smallholder farmers in Myanmar when their lands have been confiscated to accommodate the spatial needs of foreign direct investment (FDI). This article provides recommendations to help American investors maintain their ethical stance and reputation when operating their cross-border businesses in Myanmar