Short but decent

Back in May I had to write a paper for my class in international law at Peking University.  I was digging through it this afternoon to see if it had any material I could reuse in my dissertation, and discovered that the paper, which concerns sovereign wealth and international law, is not as mediocre as I originally thought it was back in 2008.  So, I've uploaded it to SSRN for your viewing pleasure. Here is the abstract:

Economic and political realities reflect the march of globalization and the blurring of international borders, but the scholarship and practice of international law perpetuates the notion that only sovereign States are the subjects of international law, and international agreements its objects. State corporatism challenges this framework because state-owned entities (SOEs) and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can simultaneously operate as both corporate and state actors. Despite the hybrid character of SOEs and SWFs, however, States and the international organizations have taken what could be characterized as a non-interventionist approach to State corporatism. In this brief Article, I identify the danger of this approach and submit that State corporatism does not permit a sole reliance upon municipal law; rather, State corporatism must remain subject to both international and domestic law, and international law must in turn evolve to recognize this particular aspect of international relations.

A little bit full of b.s., but not too shabby nonetheless.