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Foreign Investments And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Susan D. Franck
Foreign Investments And The Market For Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Susan D. Franck
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In this Article, Professors O’Hara O’Connor and Franck adapt and extend Larry Ribstein’s positive framework for analyzing the role of jurisdictional competition in the law market. Specifically, the authors provide an institutional framework focused on interest group representation that can be used to balance the tensions underlying foreign investment law, including the desire to compete to attract investments and countervailing preferences to retain domestic policymaking discretion. The framework has implications for the respective roles of BITs and investment contracts as well as the inclusion and interpretation of various foreign investment provisions.
The State, Parents, Schools, "Culture Wars", And Modern Technologies: Challenges Under The U.N. Convention On The Rights Of A Child, Nora V. Demleitner
The State, Parents, Schools, "Culture Wars", And Modern Technologies: Challenges Under The U.N. Convention On The Rights Of A Child, Nora V. Demleitner
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This paper focuses on some of the core principles of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and their application under U.S. state and federal law. While the United States has not ratified the Convention, it is a signatory. Many of the most intractable cultural issues in the United States involve children and their rights to participation, information, and decision-making. Frequently, primary and secondary education presents a fertile battle ground for “cultural clashes” between parents, schools, and state officials. In the private context, both U.S. law and the U.N. Convention have adopted the “best interests of the child” …
Stratification, Expansion, And Retrenchment: International Legal Education In U.S. Law Schools, Nora V. Demleitner
Stratification, Expansion, And Retrenchment: International Legal Education In U.S. Law Schools, Nora V. Demleitner
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Contextualizing Legitimacy, Kish Vinayagamoorthy
Contextualizing Legitimacy, Kish Vinayagamoorthy
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The article discusses the effects of jurisprudential values on the responsibility to prevent and the relationship between the State sovereignty and the responsibility of the State to prevent its citizens from crime. It evaluates how international law can facilitate the implementation of the responsibility to prevent. It emphasizes that international lawyers and academics should consider the qualities that define law and distinguish legal norms and social norm from principles of society.
Recent Developments In Third-Party Funding, Victoria Shannon
Recent Developments In Third-Party Funding, Victoria Shannon
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This article addresses recent developments in third-party funding that occurred during late 2012 and early 2013 in the three leading jurisdictions: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The most important developments are the following. On 22 April 2013, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) issued regulatory guidelines clarifying the status of funders with respect to ASIC’s regulations and detailing how funders should manage conflicts of interest and handle certain provisions of their funding arrangements. In the United Kingdom, the Jackson Reforms took effect on 1 April 2013, bringing sweeping changes to the allowable fee agreements, discovery rules …
Strategizing For Compliance: The Evolution Of A Compliance Phase Of Inter-American Court Litigation And The Strategic Imperative For Victims’ Representatives, David C. Baluarte
Strategizing For Compliance: The Evolution Of A Compliance Phase Of Inter-American Court Litigation And The Strategic Imperative For Victims’ Representatives, David C. Baluarte
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The article focuses on the international law regarding the inter-American human rights system. It informs about the implementation of compliance jurisprudence litigation by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It further states that the compliance has encouraged the representatives of the victims to make the litigation more meaningful so that they can get the fair judgment.
Reviewing José E. Alvarez, The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment, Susan D. Franck
Reviewing José E. Alvarez, The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment, Susan D. Franck
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The Case Against An International Cyber Warfare Convention, Lawrence L. Muir Jr.
The Case Against An International Cyber Warfare Convention, Lawrence L. Muir Jr.
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The Icsid Effect? Considering Potential Variations In Arbitration Awards, Susan D. Franck
The Icsid Effect? Considering Potential Variations In Arbitration Awards, Susan D. Franck
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The legitimacy of the World Bank's dispute resolution body - The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) - is a matter of heated debate. Some states have alleged that ICSID is biased, withdrawn from the ICSID Convention, and advocated creating alternative arbitration systems. Using pre-2007 archival data of the population of then- known arbitration awards, this Article quantitatively assesses whether ICSID arbitration awards were substantially different from arbitration awards rendered in other forums. The Article examines variation in the amounts claimed and outcomes reached to evaluate indicators of bias. The results indicated that there was no reliable …
Accountability For System Criminality, Mark A. Drumbl
Accountability For System Criminality, Mark A. Drumbl
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Balancing Security And Liberty In Germany, Russell A. Miller
Balancing Security And Liberty In Germany, Russell A. Miller
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Scholarly discourse over America’s national security policy frequently invites comparison with Germany’s policy. Interest in Germany’s national security jurisprudence arises because, like the United States, Germany is a constitutional democracy. Yet, in contrast to the United States, Germany’s historical encounters with violent authoritarian, anti-democratic, and terrorist movements have endowed it with a wealth of constitutional experience in balancing security and liberty. The first of these historical encounters – with National Socialism – provided the legacy against which Germany’s post-World War II constitutional order is fundamentally defined. The second encounter – with leftist domestic radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s – …
International Investment Arbitration: Winning Losing And Why, Susan D. Franck
International Investment Arbitration: Winning Losing And Why, Susan D. Franck
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Reviewing Supranational Criminology: Towards A Criminology Of International Crimes, Alette Smeulers & Roelof Haveman, Eds. (2008), Mark A. Drumbl
Reviewing Supranational Criminology: Towards A Criminology Of International Crimes, Alette Smeulers & Roelof Haveman, Eds. (2008), Mark A. Drumbl
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The Push To Criminalize Aggression: Something Lost Amid The Gains?, Mark A. Drumbl
The Push To Criminalize Aggression: Something Lost Amid The Gains?, Mark A. Drumbl
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The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, but the Rome Statute fails to define the crime. A Special Work- ing Group on the Crime of Aggression, however, has made considerable progress in developing a definition. The consensus that has emerged favors a narrow definition. Three characteristics animate this consensus: (1) that state action is central to the crime; (2) that acts of aggression involve inter- state armed conflict; and (3) that criminal responsibility attaches only to very top political or military leaders. This Article normatively challenges this consensus. I argue that expanding the scope of the …
Development And Outcomes Of Investment Treaty Arbitration, Susan D. Franck
Development And Outcomes Of Investment Treaty Arbitration, Susan D. Franck
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The legitimacy of investment treaty arbitration is a matter of heated debate. Asserting that arbitration is unfairly tilted toward the developed world, some countries have withdrawn from World Bank dispute resolution bodies or are taking steps to eliminate arbitration. In order to assess whether investment arbitration is the equivalent of tossing a two-headed coin to resolve investment disputes, this Article explores the role of development status in arbitration outcomes. It first presents descriptive, quantitative research about the developmental background of the presiding arbitrators who exert particular control over the arbitration process. The Article then assesses how (1) the development status …
The Future Of Law And Development: Investment Treaty Abritration And Law & Development, Susan D. Franck
The Future Of Law And Development: Investment Treaty Abritration And Law & Development, Susan D. Franck
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Reviewing Tom Farer, Confronting Global Terrorism And American Neoconservatives: The Framework Of A Grand Strategy, Russell A. Miller
Reviewing Tom Farer, Confronting Global Terrorism And American Neoconservatives: The Framework Of A Grand Strategy, Russell A. Miller
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Reviewing Kenneth S. Gallant, The Principle Of Legality In International And Comparative Criminal Law (2009), Mark A. Drumbl
Reviewing Kenneth S. Gallant, The Principle Of Legality In International And Comparative Criminal Law (2009), Mark A. Drumbl
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Book Review, Victor Peskin, International Justice In Rwanda And The Balkans: Virtual Trials And The Struggle For State Cooperation (2008), Mark A. Drumbl
Book Review, Victor Peskin, International Justice In Rwanda And The Balkans: Virtual Trials And The Struggle For State Cooperation (2008), Mark A. Drumbl
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Implementation of the law requires strategic cooperation. No surprise there: It does so even in the most taut domestic polity. Law is intrinsically contingent. And political. But what does the particularly acute dependency of international criminal law on political cooperation teach us about its pertinence? Its promise? Its limits? It is one thing to assess the functionality of international criminal law. It is another to gauge the value of international criminal law, when actuated through adversarial trials, in reconstituting shattered communities; and its effectiveness as a tool of transitional justice. At its core, Virtual Trials is an analysis about functionality. …
Empiricism And International Law: Insights For Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution, Susan D. Franck
Empiricism And International Law: Insights For Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution, Susan D. Franck
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While scholars in the United States increasingly focus on the empirical dimension of legal scholarship, there have been challenges in using empiricism to explore international legal issues. Rather than relying on logic or instinct alone, empirical methodologies can provide scholars with tools to gain new facts, see existing ideas through a different lens, and engage in a more nuanced analysis of international law phenomena. There appears to be a natural synergy between empiricism and international investment treaty dispute resolution. With calls for trade time outs by U.S. presidential candidates, there is interest in how investment treaties function, whether they achieve …
Global Health Care Financing Law: A Useful Concept?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Global Health Care Financing Law: A Useful Concept?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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Karen E. Woody, Putting Pandora On Trial, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 699 (2008) (Reviewing Mark A. Drumbl, Atrocity, Punishment, And International Law (2007)), Karen E. Woody
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In the wake of increasing globalization over the past fifty years, international criminal law has transformed from a toothless shadow into a concrete reality; the International Criminal Court is the most recent and impressive institutional accomplishment. Unfortunately, international criminal law has enjoyed this progress on the heels of increasingly horrific international crimes. International adjudicatory institutions have taken many forms and the sentences they deliver have varied widely. In Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law, Mark Drumbl reviews the strides made in international criminal law from the Nuremberg trials through present-day trials, particularly those related to the crimes committed in Rwanda and …
The Expressive Value Of Prosecuting And Punishing Terrorists: Hamdan, The Geneva Conventions, And International Criminal Law, Mark A. Drumbl
The Expressive Value Of Prosecuting And Punishing Terrorists: Hamdan, The Geneva Conventions, And International Criminal Law, Mark A. Drumbl
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In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the military commissions that had been proposed by the Executive to prosecute a small number of detainees captured in the 'war on terror' could not proceed. In response to the Hamdan decision, Congress enacted a new military commission structure in the 2006 Military Commissions Act (MCA), which President Bush signed on October 17, 2006. The MCA establishes military commissions for aliens classified as unlawful enemy combatants. It lists the crimes chargeable by such commissions. The MCA also amends domestic legislation - for example, the War Crimes Act - initially …
Reviewing Charlotte Ku And Harold Jacobson (Eds.), Democratic Accountability And The Use Of Force In International Law, Russell A. Miller
Reviewing Charlotte Ku And Harold Jacobson (Eds.), Democratic Accountability And The Use Of Force In International Law, Russell A. Miller
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Diamonds On The Souls Of Her Shoes: The Kimberly Process And The Morality Exception To Wto Restrictions, Karen E. Woody
Diamonds On The Souls Of Her Shoes: The Kimberly Process And The Morality Exception To Wto Restrictions, Karen E. Woody
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This Article analyzes the events predicating the Kimberley Process and examines the validity of the Kimberley Process in relation to international trade obligations. Part I describes the background of conflict diamonds and their role in African wars. The section outlines the need for regulation in the diamond industry and examines how other attempted measures at curbing the illicit diamond trade have fallen short. Part II details the Kimberley Process and its guidelines. This section analyzes the relevant U.S. legislation passed in 2003, the Clean Diamond Trade Act. Part II also suggests that because the Kimberley Process ("KP") is predicated upon …
The Iraqi High Tribunal And Rule Of Law: Challenges, Mark A. Drumbl
The Iraqi High Tribunal And Rule Of Law: Challenges, Mark A. Drumbl
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Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl
Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl
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This Review Essay of Philippe Sands' (ed.) From Nuremberg to the Hague (2003) explores a number of controversial aspects of the theory and praxis of international criminal law. The Review Essay traces the extant heuristic of international criminal justice institutions to Nuremberg and posits that the Nuremberg experience suggests the need for modesty about what criminal justice actually can accomplish in the wake of mass atrocity. It also explores the place of one person's guilt among organic crime, the reality that international criminal law may gloss over criminogenic conditions in its pursuit of individualized accountability, the possibility of group sanction …
Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl
Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl
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There is a recent proliferation of courts and tribunals to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The zenith of this institution-building is the permanent International Criminal Court, which came into force in 2002. Each of these new institutions rests on the foundational premise that it is appropriate to treat the perpetrator of mass atrocity in the same manner that domestic criminal law treats the common criminal. The modalities and rationales of international criminal law are directly borrowed from the domestic criminal law of those states that dominate the international order. In this Article, I challenge this …
Guantanamo, Rasul, And The Twilight Of Law, Mark A. Drumbl
Guantanamo, Rasul, And The Twilight Of Law, Mark A. Drumbl
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In Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that U.S. district courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities and incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. In this paper, I explore what has happened since the Rasul decision: most notably, the introduction of combatant status review tribunals as a response to Rasul and the challenges that have been filed thereto and adjudicated in the federal courts (Khalid, In re Guantanamo Detainee Cases); the charges brought against certain detainees by military commissions and challenges to these commissions filed in the …
(Reviewing Charif M. Bassiouni, Introduction To International Criminal Law (2003)), Mark A. Drumbl
(Reviewing Charif M. Bassiouni, Introduction To International Criminal Law (2003)), Mark A. Drumbl
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