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The Right To Life: Infringement On The Children’S Rights Through The Weakness Of The Colombian Penal System, Alejandra C. Rosero

Alejandra Rosero

This article discusses violations of children’s right to life in Colombia. In part I of this comment, I delineate the problem of violations of the right to life of the children in Colombia. I begin by introducing the international perspective on the right to life and its nexus with the nation state’s obligation in protecting children. I also discuss the criminal and psychological aspects of pedophilia, child abuse, and murder in Colombia. I finalize by exploring the reasons why the Colombian government penalizes these crimes the way it does and how this contributes to an increase of recidivist conduct by …

Americas And Caribbean Islands Union, Ruben B. Botello Jd

Ruben B Botello JD

A Adesão Do Brasil À Cisg Consequências Para O Comércio Na China E América Latina, Edgardo Muñoz

Edgardo Muñoz

Neste trabalho, os autores analisam a possibilidade de redução de potenciais riscos legais e de custos de transação advindos da adesão do Brasil à CISG, particularmente no que diz respeito a partes brasileiras, chinesas e latinoamericanas. A falta de previsibilidade das leis aplicáveis e as diferenças substanciais entre as leis internas brasileiras e os sistemas legais de seus principais parceiros comerciais encerram consideráveis riscos legais e altos custos de transação para os comerciantes. Este artigo sustenta que a CISG proporcionará segurança jurídica e regras adequadas para reger contratos internacionais, reduzindo, assim, riscos e custos e contribuindo para a celebração de …

Repensar A Teoria Do Estado Entre Pluralismo Ético E Globalização, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Não pode deixar de haver uma relação entre Estado e valores. Sem alguns valores partilhados, o Estado tem dificuldades. Há sempre, de um modo ou de outro, uma Ética no Estado. Ou várias. Como lidar com as éticas e as morais em sociedades pluralista como as nossas? Esta dificuldade obriga-nos também a repensar o próprio Estado, também desafiado por tempos de globalização. Foram estas algumas das interrogações que desejamos colocar neste estudo, elaborado para corresponder ao honroso convite para colaborar no portentoso volume que homenageia o grande constitucionalista brasileiro, e Vice-Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil, Prof. Michel Temer.

Investing In The Future Of Pakistan: Understanding Why It Is Important To Ensure Protection Of The Rights Of Children Affected By Armed Conflicts, Nida Mahmood

Nida Mahmood Ms

This paper looks into the de facto compliance of Pakistani Laws with the optional protocol to the convention on rights of children on the involvement of children in armed conflicts and suggests why Pakistan should ratify this protocol as soon as possible.

Model Penal Code, No-Knock Search Warrants, And Robbery, Jennifer Allison

Jennifer Allison

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Military Intervention And Diplomatic Engagement In Libya: A Collage Of Policy, Force And Law, Paul R. Williams, Anna F. Triponel

Paul Williams

The case of Libya demonstrates the extent to which the law plays a role in enabling, shaping and constraining complex military and diplomatic operations. The law underpinned a number of decisions made at the policy level regarding military and diplomatic engagement. Although prior military operations can provide guidance for decision-making in future military operations, the application of the law to each case will be unique. The Libyan case study provides an example of how the law and politics intertwined to achieve the U.S. government’s objectives of protecting the Libyan people against violent attacks by their leader. This chapter examines the …

Against Consent, Andrew T. Guzman

Andrew T Guzman

This Article challenges the conventional view of consent in international law. It argues that our existing commitment to consent is excessive and that better outcomes would result from greater use of nonconsensual forms of international law. Though consent has an important role to play, we cannot address the world’s greatest problems unless we are prepared to overcome the problem it creates — the consent problem.

International law is built on the foundation of state consent. A state’s legal obligations are overwhelmingly — some would say exclusively — based on its consent to be bound. This focus on consent offers maximal …

Doctor Frankenstein's International Orgnizations, Andrew T. Guzman

Andrew T Guzman

In the classic novel, Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein creates a living creature in the hope of cheating death. The monster, as the creature is called, horrifies Doctor Frankenstein, turns against him, and kills several people, causing the doctor to regret his decision to make the monster in the first place.

When states establish an international organization (IO), they create an institution with a life of its own on the international stage. Though states can, collectively, control the IO, without unanimity among them the organization can often act on its own. The danger for a state, then, is that its creation, like …

The Conventional Morality Of Trade, Chin Leng Lim

Chin Leng Lim

This chapter is concerned with the kinds of moral and political arguments that developing countries have made in the name of global justice. Claims for the direct global redistribution of resources have not loomed large in international trade law and regulation. To be sure, they were raised during the failed negotiations for an International Trade Organization (ITO), but the principal tension that has come to the fore in trade law and policy debate is that between the formal rules of nondiscrimination under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the developing countries’ calls for exceptions to those rules. …

'You Don't Miss Your Water 'Til Your River Runs Dry': Regulating Industrial Supply Shortages After 'China-Raw Materials', Chin Leng Lim, J. H. Senduk

Chin Leng Lim

Global industrial production depends on stable access to raw inputs. Food price volatility has emerged as a major concern for Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20), while we are hearing new calls for bringing global disciplines to resource cartels like the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Supply chains that make up globalized production recently demonstrated their potential fragility when Chinese sovereign intervention threatened to bring Japan’s high-tech manufacturing to its knees by cutting off its supplies. These wide-ranging issues are now being addressed under the umbrella of trade regulation. As a result, we are …

The Utility Of Regional Peremptory Norms In International Affairs, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

Екологізація Міжнародного Права Крізь Призму Екологічних Прав Людини | Ecologisation Of International Law Through The Prism Of Environmental Human Rights, Timur R. Korotkiy

Timur R. Korotkiy

Короткий Т. Р. Екологізація міжнародного права крізь призму екологічних прав людини / Т. Р. Короткий // Актуальні проблеми політики : зб. наук. пр. / редкол.: С. В. Ківалов (голов. ред.), Л. І. Кормич (заст. голов. ред.), М. А. Польовий (відп. секр.) [та ін.] ; НУ «ОЮА», Південноукр. центр гендер. проблем. – Одеса, 2012. – Вип. 44. – С. 130-143. In the article analyzed the tendencies the ecologisation of international law through the prism of environmental human rights. Characterized the content of environmental-legal norms of international law and relationships of environmental human rights and international environmental law. В статті проаналізовані тенденції …

Organismos Genéticamente Modificados (Ogm) Y Justicia: Implicaciones De La Biotecnología Para La Justicia Ambiental Internacional, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Carmen G. Gonzalez

En septiembre del 2006, un panel de resolución de controversias de la Organizacón Mundial del Comercio (OMC) emitió su fallo a favor de los Estados Unidos en la disputa entre EE.UU y la Unión Europea sobre los organismos genéticamente modificados (OGM). El fallo se basó en limitadas determinaciones procedimentales, y no abordó el tema de la seguridad de los OGM, el derecho de los países de reglamentar los productos genéticamente modificados más rigurosamente que sus equivalentes convencionales, ni la coherencia de la legislacion europea con las obligaciones del OMC. El continuo conflicto entre los Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea …

A Constitutional Case For Amending Article 9, Craig Martin

Craig Martin