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The International Review | 2009 Fall, Michael Rhee Oct 2009

The International Review | 2009 Fall, Michael Rhee

The International Review Newsletter

The legal implications of the “torture memos”: To prosecute or not?

Using international law to combat uncooperative tax havens

Global efforts to hold corporations accountable: Past efforts and current initiatives

Reform of the UN internal justice system: Meeting the expectations of its own standards

Human trafficking: What role for international law for a still growing problem?

An international right to any name?

An independent Supreme Court for the United Kingdom

Swine flu, pandemics, and international law

Global efforts to stop organ trafficking

Uneven progress in global efforts to fight bribery

Are Taliban fighters obeying the laws of war?

United States …


Transnational Communication And Defamatory Speech: A Case For Establishing Norms For The Twenty-First Century, David Goldberg Jan 2006

Transnational Communication And Defamatory Speech: A Case For Establishing Norms For The Twenty-First Century, David Goldberg

NYLS Law Review

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Reforming The Crime Of Libel, Clive Walker Jan 2006

Reforming The Crime Of Libel, Clive Walker

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


The International Review | 2001 Fall, Michael Rhee Sep 2001

The International Review | 2001 Fall, Michael Rhee

The International Review Newsletter

The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas: Is free trade possible in the post-Seattle world?

The World Trade Organization and Intellectual Property Rights: Obstacles or Innovators in the Fight Against AIDS?

Trouble at the Border: Is NAFTA opening roads to unsafe trucks?

Alumnus Profile: James H. Rodgers, L’Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, L.L.P.

A Concise Guide to Major Trade Agreements

Global Trade Round-up


A Constitutional Confluence: American ‘State Action’ Law And The Application Of South Africa’S Socioeconomic Rights Guarantees To Private Actors, Stephen Ellmann Jan 2001

A Constitutional Confluence: American ‘State Action’ Law And The Application Of South Africa’S Socioeconomic Rights Guarantees To Private Actors, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

As constitutional protection of human rights expands around the world, the question of whether constitutional rights should protect people not only against state action but also against the conduct of private actors is once again timely. Few nations have so broadly, or so ambiguously, endorsed the application of constitutional guarantees to constrain private conduct (known outside the United States as "horizontality") as South Africa. The constitution approved in 1996 applies fully and without qualification to all "organs of state," and this term is defined in section 239 in potentially very broad terms, notably embracing "any other functionary or institution ... …