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Treaty Validity After Diplomatic Cutoff: The Case Of The Taiwan-Panama Free Trade Agreement, Chien-Huei Wu, Po-Hsiang Liao

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In view of the opposing positions of Taiwan and Panama, this paper intends to examine the legal status of the Taiwan-Panama FTA after the termination of diplomatic relations between these two countries. This paper argues that the severance of diplomatic relations does not affect the legal relations of Taiwan-related FTAs. This paper puts forward two arguments in support of the continuous legal validity of the Taiwan-Panama FTA from the perspectives of public international law and the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). First, as the law of treaties provides, the severance of diplomatic relations shall not affect the treaty …

Us-China Transnational Law In A Time Of Trade Crisis, Carrie Shang

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Growing transnational business activities have resulted in more rapid transnationalization of American laws. In an era of deglobalization, the way the Trump administration moved away from multilateralism has both gravely impacted international law ordering and triggered responsive (or adaptive) law-making in some of the United States' major trade partners, in particular, China. The recently concluded US-China Trade War has driven up the speed of transnational norm-making and hastened incorporation of American legal principles into Chinese domestic laws. As diplomatic tension between the United States and China intensify, Chinese companies are increasingly becoming targets of sanctions and regulatory enforcement actions led …

How The World's Largest Economies Regulate Data Privacy: Drawbacks, Benefits, & Proposed Solutions, Alexander J. Pantos

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

National data privacy regimes are quickly gaining traction and ubiquity around the globe. Moving forward, countries will face a range of difficult decisions surrounding how best to engage internationally in cross border data flow, particularly in the context of personal information (PI).

This article takes a bird's-eye view of the current state of data privacy regimes in the world's four highest GDP regions. In part, this article hopes to provide a succinct analysis of these data privacy regimes, with a focus on the balance they strike between granting individuals rights in their data and placing responsibilities on businesses that deal …