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Recent Developments In Climate Justice, Randall S. Abate, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Maria Antonia Tigre, Patricia Ferreira, Wil Burns
Recent Developments In Climate Justice, Randall S. Abate, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Maria Antonia Tigre, Patricia Ferreira, Wil Burns
Journal Publications
Climate justice can be defined generally as addressing the disproportionate burden of climate change impacts on poor and marginalized communities. It seeks to promote more equitable allocation of these burdens at the local, national, and global levels through proactive regulatory initiatives and reactive judicial remedies that draw on international human rights and domestic environmental justice theories. Yet, efforts to define climate justice as a field of inquiry remain elusive and underinclusive; a recent book, Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (ELI Press 2016), seeks to fill that void by providing an overview of the landscape of …
A Historical Account Of The Internationalization Of Invest Disputes: What The Global South Should Know When Negotiating Bilateral Investment Treaties, Felix O. Okpe
Florida A & M University Law Review
Under international law, and perhaps in the context of the ICSID Convention, it is fair to state that; the potential for investment disputes is more likely with respect to foreign investments hosted in the global south. In most situations when investment disputes arise, foreign investors often allege that an act that includes regulatory initiatives of the host state or an omission attributable to the host state, has occasioned a violation of applicable investment agreement. Sometimes the basis for the alleged breach results from underlying contractual claims by the foreign investor. Thus, investment claims have created the intellectual foundation for a …
Beyond Borders: Martin Luther King, Jr., Africa, And Pan Africanism, Jeremy I. Levitt
Beyond Borders: Martin Luther King, Jr., Africa, And Pan Africanism, Jeremy I. Levitt
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This modest essay was a work of love in honor of Henry J. Richardson III, my dear brother, friend, mentor, and father in international law. Hank is universally recognized as the Dean of Black international law scholars and lawyers in the United States (U.S.), Africa, and beyond. He has single-handedly mentored three generations of international lawyers, influenced three generations of international legal scholarship, and established the Black International Tradition (BIT), which "stretches back to the very origins of our nation, preceding even the Constitution." His works on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s (King) leadership, authority, and ministry as a global …