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Laurence R. Helfer

Laurence R. Helfer

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Law

D-Index
34
Citations
7719
World Ranking
177
National Ranking
133

Overview

Laurence R. Helfer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has made significant contributions mainly within the field of social sciences. Their research spans areas including political science, international relations, sociology, law, and infectious diseases, with the largest number of publications in political science and international relations.

Their scholarly work focuses on several main topics, such as:

  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Human Rights and Immigration

Laurence R. Helfer has published extensively. Notable recent papers include:

  • Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?, 2020, European Journal of International Law
  • Increasing compliance with international pandemic law: international relations and new global health agreements, 2023, The Lancet
  • Rethinking Derogations from Human Rights Treaties, 2021, American Journal of International Law
  • Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Flexible Institution Building in the International Anti-corruption Regime: Proposing a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism, 2023, American Journal of International Law

They have a notable presence in a variety of academic venues, frequently publishing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (10 publications)
  • American Journal of International Law (4 publications)
  • European Journal of International Law (2 publications)
  • The Lancet (1 publication)
  • Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas (1 publication)

Their book publication record includes a work published by Cambridge University Press titled Human Rights in a Time of Populism (2020).

Collaboration has been a component of their scholarly activity, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Erik Voeten (4 joint publications)
  • Gerald L. Neuman (4 joint publications)
  • Cecily Rose (2 joint publications)
  • Rachel Brewster (2 joint publications)
  • Curtis A. Bradley (2 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Consensus, Coherence and the European Convention on Human Rights

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Regime Shifting in the International Intellectual Property System

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface

    Laurence R. Helfer;Graeme W. Austin

  • Backlash against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences

    Karen J. Alter;James T. Gathii;Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

    Laurence R. Helfer;Graeme B. Dinwoodie

  • International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe

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  • Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties

    Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;Laurence R. Helfer;Christopher J. Fariss

  • International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe

    Laurence R. Helfer;Erik Voeten

  • Adjudicating Copyright Claims Under the TRIPs Agreement: The Case for a European Human Rights Analogy

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • A NEW INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COURT FOR WEST AFRICA: THE ECOWAS COMMUNITY COURT OF JUSTICE

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Jacqueline R. McAllister

  • Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J + Alter;Laurence R + Helfer

  • Transnational Legal Orders

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  • International public goods and transfer of technology under a globalized intellectual property regime

    Keith E. Maskus;Jerome H. Reichman

  • How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Mikael Rask Madsen

  • Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer;Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: Enforcement, Compliance, and Effectiveness

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  • Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations

    Karen J Alter;Emilie M Hafner-Burton;Laurence R Helfer

  • Intellectual property rights in plant varieties International legal regimes and policy options for national governments

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Flexibility in International Agreements

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN PLANT VARIETIES: AN OVERVIEW WITH OPTIONS FOR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer;Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Osvaldo Saldías

  • International Court Authority in Question

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Mikael Rask Madsen

  • The Effectiveness of International Adjudicators

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Why States Create International Tribunals: A Theory of Constrained Independence

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogation from Human Rights Treaties

    Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton;Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer;Christopher J. Fariss

  • Monitoring Compliance with Un-Ratified Treaties: The ILO Experience

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Intellectual Property and Human Rights

    Laurence R. Helfer

  • World Music on a Us Stage: A Berne/Trips and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act

    Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Response: Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk, and Treaty Design

    Laurence R. Helfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome H. Reichman
Jerome H. Reichman Duke University
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter Princeton University
Erik Voeten
Erik Voeten Georgetown University
Gregory Shaffer
Gregory Shaffer Georgetown University
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson University of California, Berkeley
Peter Drahos
Peter Drahos Australian National University

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