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Handbook For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment In Medium-Size, Low-Budget Cities In Emerging Markets, Vale Columbia Center On Sustainable International Investment, Millennium Cities Initiative

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Books

In November 2009, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) released the Handbook for Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Medium-size, Low-Budget Cities in Emerging Markets. With foreign direct investment (FDI) flows declining worldwide by an estimated 40-50% this year (following a decline of over 10% in 2008), investment promotion has become more important than ever: in a highly competitive world FDI market, promotion can make all the difference.

Investment promotion is particularly important for cities other than capital cities, as investors in manufacturing and services often locate primarily in a country’s capital …

International & Comparative Law Perspectives: Fall 2009, Int'l & Comp. Law Program

International & Comparative Law Perspectives

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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 …

The Rule Of Law In Comparative Perspective, Mortimer N.S. Sellers, Tadeusz Tomaszewski

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This new volume on The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective compares the different conceptions of the rule of law that have developed in different legal cultures. Lawyers and legal scholars from various legal systems describe the social purposes and practical applications of the rule of law, and how it might be improved in the varied circumstances of their own courts and politics.

This book will be of interest to lawyers, judges, public officials, and to all those wishing to improve the fundamental structures of their own legal systems, by bringing equal justice to every person subject to the power …

The Internationalization Of Law And Legal Education, Jan Klabbers, Mortimer N.S. Sellers

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The internationalization of commerce and contemporary life has led to a globalization of legal standards and practices. The essays in this text explore this new reality and suggest ways in which the new legal order can be made more just and effective.

The International Review | 2009 Spring, Michael Rhee

The International Review Newsletter

Cyber warfare and international law: Unresolved issues

The world financial crisis: Time for a new global regulatory regime?

Legal issues in the closing of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility

Hot pursuit: Legal or illegal under international law?

U.S. child custody disputes at home and abroad

Chinese South Africans are now “black”

A new system for making food health claims in the European Union

First arrest warrant issued for sitting head of state

A better way to seek child support payments

Better access to essential medicines for developing countries?

The conflict in Georgia: Recognizing separatist territories and international law

Continuing …

The Game Of Conservation: International Treaties To Protect The World’S Migratory Animals, Mark Cioc

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.

Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted by major breakthroughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of migratory species. The treaties had many defects, yet they also served the goal of conservation to good effect, often saving key species from complete …

Global Issues In Freedom Of Speech And Religion: Cases And Materials, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Alan Brownstein

McGeorge School of Law Teaching Materials

Brownstein and Jacobs's Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion: Cases and Materials is a companion volume to existing materials. Designed to assist professors in introducing issues of international and comparative law, this title is ideal for use in educational courses that address:

• The First Amendment
• Law and religion
• Individual rights
• Other topics dealing with free speech and religious liberty

In order to make companion materials understandable and accessible to students as well as to professors who have not taught the materials before, this title:

• Includes case excerpts, helpful background materials, and notes
• Is set out in a structure …