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I am grateful to Professors Lee Fennell and Tom Ginsburg for their advising and to Whittney Barth, Laurel Hattix, and Siqing Li for their guidance and editing. I would also like to thank the entire staff and board of the Chicago Journal of International Law. All mistakes are my own.

I would like to thank Joseph Raz, Mark Barenberg, Sarah Cleveland, David Bilchitz, David Miller, Thomas Pogge, Leora Dahan Katz, and Yuliya Mik for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this Article. I presented the Article in a special workshop, Human Rights Accountability of Non-State Actors, which I organized at the IVR World Congress in Lucerne (July 7–13, 2019) and in the Junior Scholar Workshop at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Nov. 27, 2019). I am very grateful to all participants of these workshops for their helpful advice. Many thanks to the editors of the Chicago Journal of International Law for their important suggestions and support.

The author is sincerely grateful for feedback on earlier drafts of this Article from Professors Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Katharine Donato, Claire Higgins, Greg Klass, Sherally Munshi, Robin West, Edith Beerdsen, and J. Benton Heath. The author is also grateful to the participants of the 2019 Emerging Scholars Network Workshop hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney and Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, as well as the 2018–2019 participants of the Georgetown Law S.J.D./Fellows Workshop. Additionally, the author would like to thank the student research assistants from both Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute and NYU Law.

I would like to thank Professors Jonathan Graubart, Nino Guruli, and Aziz Huq for their insightful commentary. I would also like to thank the staff of the Chicago Journal of International Law and the Salzburg Global Seminar for allowing me to present and workshop the ideas in this Comment at their annual symposiums. Lastly, I am indebted to Professor Caroline Kaeb and Carsten Stahn for their substantial research on this subject. All mistakes are my own.

I would like to thank Professor Lakier and the entire Chicago Journal of International Law staff for helping me develop this Comment from a casual question of “is this legal” to a thesis about the way social media companies should be regulated across borders. A particular shout-out goes to the team at Cloudflare, who introduced me to the idea that international law touches more than just trade and migration. This is a piece I am really proud of, and I hope everyone who helped me work on it understands exactly how important their role was.

Thank you to Professors Mark Templeton and Mary Ellen O’Connell for their input and feedback.

Thanks to Andrew Cohen, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Margaret Graves, Rachel Guglielmo, Jayanth Krishnan, Ethan Michelson, Christiana Ochoa, Austen Parrish, Marco Prelec, to audiences at the Association for the Study of Nationalities 23rd Annual Conference at Columbia University, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Center for International Criminal Justice for comments on earlier drafts, and to Dr. Manfredo Romeo for his assistance with the images.

Thanks to the members of the European University Institute’s Legal and Political Theory and History of Ideas and Imperial History Working Groups. Thanks also to the editors of the Chicago Journal of International Law for their insightful comments and diligent support.

I would like to thank the CJIL Board and staff for all of their guidance and support in drafting this Comment. I am especially grateful to Professor Tom Ginsburg for his feedback, ideas, and overall contributions to this piece.

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to Professor Eric Posner for his guidance and to Marcus Bauer, Whittney Barth, and the rest of the CJIL team for their patience and encouragement. I would also like to thank Professor Alison Dundes Renteln for her mentorship and for inspiring my interest in international law, my friends for their camaraderie, and my family for its boundless love and support.

I would like to thank the editors of the Chicago Journal of International Law for their feedback and support and Professor Douglas Baird, who served as faculty advisor for this Comment. Any errors are my own

I would like to thank Jordanna and Emma Dulaney for first telling me about Women on Waves. Thank you as well to the CJIL board and Professor Claudia M. Flores, for providing me with invaluable feedback on this Comment.