Jenny S. Martinez
Professor of Law and Warren Christopher Professor in the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Jenny S. Martinez, There are Two Ways to Look at Sovereignty, New York Times, Room for Debate, The Opinion Pages, Dec. 6, 2012.
Jenny S. Martinez, Acknowledge that Treaties are Laws, New York Times, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, July 8, 2012.
Jenny S. Martinez, Horizontal Structuring, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó, editors, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Jenny S. Martinez, The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Jenny S. Martinez, The Extraterritorial Constitution and the Rule of Law, 27 Constitutional Commentary 527 (2011).
Jenny S. Martinez, International Law at the Crossroads: The Role of Judge Patricia Wald (Tribute), 11 International Criminal Law Review 391 (2011).
Jenny S. Martinez, International Courts and the U.S. Constitution: Re-examining the History, 159 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1069 (2011).
Jenny S. Martinez, Muneer I. Ahmad, et al, Scholars' Statement of Principles for the New President on U.S. Detention Policy: An Agenda for Change, 47 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 339 (Winter 2009).
Jenny S. Martinez, Patricia McGowan Wald, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Roger K. Newman, ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Jenny S. Martinez, The Mess Left Behind, Room For Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, March 31, 2009.
Jenny S. Martinez, Flexibility With Truth Commissions, Room For Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, March 2, 2009.
Jenny S. Martinez, Antislavery Courts and the Dawn of International Human Rights Law, 117 Yale Law Journal 550 (2008).
Jenny S. Martinez, Process and Substance in the "War on Terror", 108 Columbia Law Review 1013 (2008).
Jack L. Goldsmith, Jenny S. Martinez, Charles Fried and Jack M. Balkin, Questions of Justice, New York Times, October 17, 2007, pg. A27.
Jenny S. Martinez, Slave Trade on Trial: Lessons of a Great Human Rights Law Success, Boston Review, September/October 2007.
Jenny S. Martinez, The Real Verdict on Jose Padilla, Washington Post, Friday, August 17, 2007; p. A23.
Jenny S. Martinez, Curbing Misuse of the "Enemy Combatant" Provision, Washington Post, July 6, 2007, p. A14.
Jenny S. Martinez, The Military Commissions Act and "Torture Lite": Something for a Great Nation to be Proud Of? 48 Harvard International Law Journal 58 (2007).
Jenny S. Martinez, The Law of Torture, in Torture, Human Rights and Terrorism, Working Paper 17, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Berkeley (2007).
Jenny S. Martinez, Understanding Mens Rea in Command Responsibility from Yamashita to Blaskic and Beyond, 5 International Criminal Justice 638 (2007).