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The Nature And Enforcement Of Investor Rights Under Investment Treaties: Do Investment Treaties Have A Bright Future, Susan Franck Oct 2005

The Nature And Enforcement Of Investor Rights Under Investment Treaties: Do Investment Treaties Have A Bright Future, Susan Franck

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The number of investment treaties has surged in the past decade. Even now, the United States and Canada are actively engaged in programs designed to facilitate the completion of multilateral treaties such as the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). These investment treaties act like economic bills of rights, which grant foreign investors substantive protections and procedural rights to facilitate investment. Sovereigns, meanwhile, may benefit from these treaties by obtaining increased foreign direct investment, which may promote the development of their country's infrastructure 6 and offer citizens basic services including access to clean water, …


Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambivalence Of European Federalism, Fernanda Nicola Jan 2005

Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambivalence Of European Federalism, Fernanda Nicola

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The Treaty Establishing the European Community announces in EC TREATY art. 5.1. the principle that the powers of the European Community are limited to those specifically conferred on it. However, experience and judicial interpretation have shown that, in practice, the allocation of power between the Community decision maker and Member States is neither clear nor immutable. In its Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, the Community attempts to clarify the allocation of competences. Article III-278 of the Draft E.U. Constitution (Public Health Article) is a public health provision that expressly refers to the regulation of tobacco. To many, the Public …


Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

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Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body: A Critique Of The Ways In Which The State Disrupts The Personhood Interests Of The Deceased And His Or Her Kin In Disposing Of The Dead And Assigning Identity In Death, Mary Clark Jan 2005

Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body: A Critique Of The Ways In Which The State Disrupts The Personhood Interests Of The Deceased And His Or Her Kin In Disposing Of The Dead And Assigning Identity In Death, Mary Clark

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Evidence Destroyed, Innocence Lost: The Preservation Of Biological Evidence Under Innocence Protection Statutes, Cynthia Jones Jan 2005

Evidence Destroyed, Innocence Lost: The Preservation Of Biological Evidence Under Innocence Protection Statutes, Cynthia Jones

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Ambiguity And The Academic: The Dangerous Attraction Of Pan-Indian Legal Analysis, Ezra Rosser Jan 2005

Ambiguity And The Academic: The Dangerous Attraction Of Pan-Indian Legal Analysis, Ezra Rosser

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Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey Jan 2005

Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey

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Women As Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979, Mary Clark Jan 2005

Women As Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979, Mary Clark

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Dispelling Myths: A Real World Perspective On Trinko, Sean Flynn Jan 2005

Dispelling Myths: A Real World Perspective On Trinko, Sean Flynn

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Inter-American System, Claudia Martin Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Claudia Martin

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Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

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Keeping Up Appearances: A Process-Oriented Approach To Judicial Recusal, Amanda Frost Jan 2005

Keeping Up Appearances: A Process-Oriented Approach To Judicial Recusal, Amanda Frost

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