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Does Cercla Preempt New York State Law Claims For Cost Recovery And Contribution?, Kristi Weiner Jan 2010

Does Cercla Preempt New York State Law Claims For Cost Recovery And Contribution?, Kristi Weiner

NYLS Law Review

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Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters, Robert Howse, Ruti G. Teitel Jan 2010

Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters, Robert Howse, Ruti G. Teitel

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The conceptual, and more recently empirical, study of compliance has become a central preoccupation, and perhaps the fastest growing sub-field, in international legal scholarship. The authors seek to put in question this trend. They argue that looking at the aspirations of international law through the lens of rule-compliance leads to inadequate scrutiny and understanding of the diverse complex purposes and projects that multiple actors impose and transpose on international legality, and especially a tendency to oversimplify if not distort the relation of international law to politics. Citing a range of examples from different areas of internationallaw-ranging widely from international trade …