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The International Review | 2007 Fall, Michael Rhee

The International Review Newsletter

The U.S. Supreme Court and Global Warming: National and International Implications

Hedge funds: In need of international regulation?

Universal jurisdiction: Prosecuting any crimes committed anywhere?

Is the WTO Providing More Access to Essential Medicines?

KORUS: A trade agreement binding the United States and Korea?

The Outsourcing of Torture: “Extraordinary rendition” still shrouded in secrecy

“Enforced disappearances” convention: A casualty of the war on terror?

A better definition for “crime of aggression”?

Food safety: Weaknesses abroad and at home

The world’s first publicly-held law firm: Opportunities and dilemmas

Ethiopia v. Starbucks: A brewing trademark dispute?

Hitting the pocketbooks of human rights …

The International Review | 2007 Spring, Michael Rhee

The International Review Newsletter

A New System of Law and Order in the “War on Terror”

Will the new national space policy lead to weapons in space?

Judgment at Baghdad: Justice served or a miscarriage of justice?

UN Peacekeeping: Possible adjustments in the face of continuing limitations?

Federal Internet gambling ban: A bluff or ace in the hole?

Cybercrime Convention: A threat to criminals and individual privacy?

International Criminal Court: The First Case

Double jeopardy facing jeopardy in England?

Taxation without representation in the nation’s capital

Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Terrorist and legal blacklist?

Is the Human Rights Council breaking with its past?

Does membership …

Peace Agreement Drafting Guide: Darfur, Paul Williams, Matthew Simpson, Christina Sheetz

Books

The Public International Law & Policy Group's (PILPG) Peace Agreement Drafting Guide: Darfur is a comprehensive peace agreement drafting handbook tailored to the upcoming Darfur peace negotiations. The drafting guide presents core elements of relevant topics, outlines the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) provisions related to those topics, and provides sample language parties may wish to consider when drafting future provisions. The Darfur Peace Agreement is divided into six chapters: Power Sharing, Wealth Sharing, Ceasefire and Final Security Arrangements, Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation, General Provisions, and Implementation Modalities and Timelines. The Darfur Peace Agreement also includes six annextures detailing previous agreements …

Global Issues In Employment Discrimination Law, Brian K. Landsberg, Samuel Estreicher

McGeorge School of Law Teaching Materials

This casebook emphasizes primary materials (statutes, European Union directives, regulations, guidelines, and cases) that have been edited to facilitate classroom discussion. Topics include what employers are covered, including extraterritorial application; protected classes in Europe, Asia, South Africa and Mexico; types of unlawful discrimination; and remedies and enforcement mechanisms. The primary material is enhanced by brief notes and questions. The book can supplement a domestic-only employment discrimination law course, or serve as the basis of a stand-alone seminar, to advance the students' understanding of their own system and the kinds of issues they will face in an era of globalization.

Global Issues In Criminal Law, Linda Carter, Christopher L. Blakesley, Peter J. Henning

McGeorge School of Law Teaching Materials

This book provides an introduction to issues arising in international and transnational crimes, giving students a broader perspective on a developing area of the law. Faculty and students have access to material from domestic and international sources. The book builds on a number of subjects treated in the traditional criminal law class, such as mens rea, actus reus, accomplice and conspiratorial liability, and defenses, by analyzing three subjects of current interest: transnational crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

Beyond Westphalia: Competitive Legalization In Emerging Transnational Regulatory Systems, Errol E. Meidinger

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 7 in Law and Legalization in Transnational Relations, Christian Brütsch & Dirk Lehmkuhl, eds.

This paper analyzes several emerging transnational regulatory systems that engage, but are not centered on state legal systems. Driven primarily by civil society organizations, the new regulatory systems use conventional technical standard setting and certification techniques to establish market-leveraged, social and environmental regulatory programs. These programs resemble state regulatory programs in many important respects, and are increasingly legalized. Individual sectors generally have multiple regulatory programs that compete with, but also mimic and reinforce each other. While forestry is the most developed example, similar …