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Labor Provisions From Nafta To Cafta: Standards That Work, Or A Work In Progress?, Michael O'Donovan
Labor Provisions From Nafta To Cafta: Standards That Work, Or A Work In Progress?, Michael O'Donovan
Law and Justice in the Americas Working Paper Series
The emerging U.S. approach linking free trade to domestic labor protections is a practical framework on which to base substantive and procedural rights. Nevertheless, much more can be done in future agreements to improve these safeguards for workers in a way that will maximize the gains from trade and reduce the most harmful effects of development. In order to improve future agreements, the U.S. should expand access to consultations within the dispute resolution mechanism, focus complaints on core rights such as organization and bargaining, encourage the development of small independent unions in corporatist cultures, and incorporate the ILO ...
Globalization And The Design Of International Institutions, Cary Coglianese
Globalization And The Design Of International Institutions, Cary Coglianese
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law
In an increasingly globalized world, international rules and organizations have grown ever more crucial to the resolution of major economic and social concerns. How can leaders design international institutions that will effectively solve global regulatory problems? This paper confronts this question by presenting three major types of global problems, distinguishing six main categories of institutional forms that can be used to address these problems, and showing how the effectiveness of international institutions depends on achieving “form-problem” fit. Complicating that fit will be the tendency of nation states to prefer institutional forms that do little to constrain their sovereignty. Yet the ...
Resolving International Sanitary And Phytosanitary Disputes In The Wto: Lessons And Future Directions, Kevin C. Kennedy
Resolving International Sanitary And Phytosanitary Disputes In The Wto: Lessons And Future Directions, Kevin C. Kennedy
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