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Environmental Law

University of Georgia School of Law

2014

Climate change

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Let Them Eat Carbon: The End Of The Kyoto Protocol, Aiten J. Musaeva Mcpherson May 2014

Let Them Eat Carbon: The End Of The Kyoto Protocol, Aiten J. Musaeva Mcpherson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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From Contract To Legislation: The Logic Of Modern International Lawmaking, Timothy L. Meyer Jan 2014

From Contract To Legislation: The Logic Of Modern International Lawmaking, Timothy L. Meyer

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The future of international lawmaking is in peril. Both trade and climate negotiations have failed to produce a multilateral agreement since the mid-1990s, while the U.N. Security Council has been unable to comprehensively respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. In response to multilateralism’s retreat, many prominent commentators have called for international institutions to be given the power to bind holdout states — often rising or reluctant powers such as China and the United States — without their consent. In short, these proposals envision international law traveling the road taken by federal systems such as the United States and the …