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Given Today's New Wave Of Protectionsim, Is Antitrust Law The Last Hope For Preserving A Free Global Economy Or Another Nail In Free Trade's Coffin?, Allison Murray
Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review
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State Control Over Interpretation Of Investment Treaties, Lise Johnson, Merim Razbaevea
State Control Over Interpretation Of Investment Treaties, Lise Johnson, Merim Razbaevea
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Many critiques of investment treaties relate to concerns that tribunals’ interpretations of these agreements depart from states’ understandings of the texts, and do so in unpredictable ways leading to expensive litigation and unforeseen liability. States, however, can take steps to make their intentions regarding the texts clearer, and reduce the risk of uncertain outcomes.
This policy paper discusses these possible steps, and the legal rules supporting them, providing guidance to states, attorneys, and tribunals regarding the important role of states in clarifying vague standards in and managing liability under existing investment treaties. A second paper, published by the Global …
Behavioral International Law, Tomer Broude
Behavioral International Law, Tomer Broude
Tomer Broude
Economic analysis and rational choice have in the last decade made significant inroads into the study of international law and institutions, relying upon standard assumptions of perfect rationality of states and decision-makers. This approach is inadequate, both empirically and in its tendency towards outdated formulations of political theory. This article presents an alternative behavioral approach that provides new hypotheses addressing problems in international law while introducing empirically grounded concepts of real, observed rationality. First, I address methodological objections to behavioral analysis of international law: the focus of behavioral research on the individual; the empirical foundations of behavioral economics; and behavioral …
New Uncitral Arbitration Rules On Transparency: Application, Content And Next Steps, Lise Johnson
New Uncitral Arbitration Rules On Transparency: Application, Content And Next Steps, Lise Johnson
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
This paper discusses the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration, which were adopted in August of 2013 and went into effect on April 1, 2014. It draws on negotiating history to elaborate on the content of and purpose of each of the Rules’ provisions, and identifies options for and barriers to applying these Rules in future arbitrations.
U.S. Practices In Risk Assessment And Risk Management For Product Safety Under Article 2.2 Of The Agreement On Technical Barriers To Trade, Suckhong Ko
LLM Theses and Essays
Article 2.2 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) was applied to the GATT member countries in 1995. This article provides national product safety agencies with requirements for risk assessment and risk management. However, the terms used in the article are broad and open to interpretation. This paper argues that vast discretion and broad terms cannot solve technical barriers effectively; the “minimum requirements” standard within Article 2.2 of the TBT fails to consider those countries whose technology in product safety is inferior to that of developed countries. The United States has some of the strongest product safety measures, …
Are We Compatible?: Current European Community Law On The Compatibility Of Joint Ventures With The Common Market And Possibilities For Future Development, Alyssa A. Grikscheit
Are We Compatible?: Current European Community Law On The Compatibility Of Joint Ventures With The Common Market And Possibilities For Future Development, Alyssa A. Grikscheit
Michigan Law Review
The Commission and commentators note that the potential for reform in the procedural arena is quite great. The current literature discusses the difficulties would-be venturers have in determining if their proposed venture is concentrative or cooperative and the procedural differences between notifications under the two standards.
This Note argues, however, that the substantive differences between the two standards are even more problematic than the procedural ones. Reducing the substantive differences between the two compatibility standards, short of creating a single standard that is unresponsive to the tensions between concentrative and cooperative situations, will have a beneficial impact. Similar standards of …
Civil Enforcement Of Eec Antitrust Law, Francis G. Jacobs
Civil Enforcement Of Eec Antitrust Law, Francis G. Jacobs
Michigan Law Review
This paper examines whether and to what extent private civil remedies are, as a matter of law, and ought to be, as a matter of policy, available in the courts of the EEC Member States for breach of the antitrust provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (the Treaty of Rome). These questions are addressed in Part I. Part II sets the issues in the broader context of the enforcement of the Treaty obligations of Member States. In this way, it is hoped to elucidate the relationship between national law and Community law, and also indirectly to illuminate …
Commercial Treaties And Foreign Companies: The Mutually Reinforcing Principles Of Remedial Antitrust And National Treatment, Alan Van Kampen
Commercial Treaties And Foreign Companies: The Mutually Reinforcing Principles Of Remedial Antitrust And National Treatment, Alan Van Kampen
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note argues that greater appreciation for the nature and importance of national treatment obligations will compel tribunals fashioning antitrust relief to provide more suitably for foreign firms, and thus avoid straining international trade relations. Moreover, because antitrust relief and national treatment objectives are mutually reinforcing, greater recognition of national treatment requirements should improve remedial orders from the standpoint of antitrust economics. Meeting national treatment requirements should place little added burden on the antitrust tribunal; it must merely extend impartial economic analysis to all market suppliers, not just domestic firms.
This Note explores methods to ensure that antitrust relief orders …
Regulating Multinational Corporate Concentration-The European Economic Community, John Temple Lang
Regulating Multinational Corporate Concentration-The European Economic Community, John Temple Lang
Michigan Journal of International Law
It is the purpose of this article to discuss the policies and goals of the efforts of the European Communities to regulate multinational corporate concentration. For reasons that will become clear in the course of the article, it is necessary to start by outlining the means available to the European Communities, both presently and potentially, to promote these policies. It is not possible to see what those policies might be or how they are likely to develop without understanding the practical implications of the various legal rules on which the Community might rely in the future. This article does not …
Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court
By David M. Engel
Tuscon, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1978. Pp. 230. $4.95.
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Human Rights and Development: Report of a Seminar on Human Rights and Their Promotion in the Caribbean
By the International Commission of Jurists and The Organization of Commonwealth Bar Associations
Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I.: The Cedar Press, 1978. Pp. 190.
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Iceburg Utilization: Proceedings of the First International Conference Held at Ames, Iowa
Edited by A.A. Husseiny
New York, New York: Pergamon Press, 1978. Pp. 760. $35.00.
Recent Decisions, Richard F. Cook, Jr., Edward C. Brewer, Iii, Daniel R. Wofsey, Sue D. Sheridan, Steven M. Morgan
Recent Decisions, Richard F. Cook, Jr., Edward C. Brewer, Iii, Daniel R. Wofsey, Sue D. Sheridan, Steven M. Morgan
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Recent Decisions
Admiralty--Time Charter--Shipowner's Contractual Right to Withdraw Services of Vessel upon Charterer's Failure to Provide Punctual Payment is not Extinguished by Late Tender of Payment
Richard F. Cook, Jr.
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Antitrust--Treble Damages--A Foreign Sovereign is a "Person" entitled to Sue under Section 4 of the Clayton Act
Edward Cage Brewer, III
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Customs search of International Mail--A Customs Search of International Mail is Authorized by 19 C.F.R. § 145.2 and Incorporates the Reasonable Cause to Suspect Requirement of 19 U.S.C. § 482
Daniel R. Wofsey
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Jurisdiction and Procedure--Discovery--Party unable to comply with Discovery Order which Contravenes Foreign Nondisclosure …