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Should Or Must? Nature Of The Obligation Of States To Use Trade Instruments For The Advancement Of Environmental, Labor, And Other Human Rights, Stephen Powell Oct 2007

Should Or Must? Nature Of The Obligation Of States To Use Trade Instruments For The Advancement Of Environmental, Labor, And Other Human Rights, Stephen Powell

Stephen Joseph Powell

States have been careful to couch their human rights commitments in terms that avoid binding and measurable actions to ensure the human rights either of their own citizens or those in other countries. Despite the promise of a dozen U.N. treaties, states continue to equivocate as to measures necessary to meet critical individual needs. This essay argues that, nonetheless, the question whether economically powerful states may be held to human rights observance is not solely moral in nature. Instead, through a combination of treaties, custom, and historical facts, the human rights obligation of developed states has taken on penumbral legal …


Global Justice And The Bretton Woods Institutions, Frank J. Garcia Aug 2007

Global Justice And The Bretton Woods Institutions, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Together with the WTO, the Bretton Woods Institutions are the preeminent international institutions devoted to managing international economic relations. This mandate puts them squarely in the center of the debate concerning development, inequality and global justice. This essay explores how justice criteria might apply to the ideology and operations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Using the Rawlsian model of egalitarian justice adapted to international institutions by the author in connection with the WTO, this essay asks what difference it would make for the Bank and Fund if an explicit justice framework informed their international lending activities.


The U.S.-Ec Dispute Over Customs Matters: Trade Facilitation, Customs Unions, And The Meaning Of Wto Obligations, Daniel H. Erskine Feb 2007

The U.S.-Ec Dispute Over Customs Matters: Trade Facilitation, Customs Unions, And The Meaning Of Wto Obligations, Daniel H. Erskine

Daniel H. Erskine

The article addresses a current WTO dispute between the United States and the European Communities on selected customs matters. The article discusses the necessity for a uniform WTO agreement on trade facilitation, as well as analyzes the apparent inconsistency between the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Article X’s mandate for WTO Members to uniformly, impartially, and reasonably administer municipal customs laws and Article XXIV’s allowance of individual members of a customs union to substantially apply common commercial regulations and laws in relation to non-members of the customs union. The article concludes that an agreement between WTO Members on …


Developing Countries And Emergency Safeguard Measures In World Trade Law, Elenor Lissel Dec 2006

Developing Countries And Emergency Safeguard Measures In World Trade Law, Elenor Lissel

Elenor Lissel

No abstract provided.


Icsid Institutional Reform: The Evolution Of Dispute Resolution And The Role Of Structural Safegaurds, Susan Franck Dec 2006

Icsid Institutional Reform: The Evolution Of Dispute Resolution And The Role Of Structural Safegaurds, Susan Franck

Susan D. Franck

No abstract provided.


Local Matters: Internationalizing Strategies For U.S. Law Firms, Carole Silver Dec 2006

Local Matters: Internationalizing Strategies For U.S. Law Firms, Carole Silver

Carole Silver

No abstract provided.


Translating The U.S. Llm Experience: The Need For A Comprehensive Examination, Carole Silver, Mayer Freed Dec 2006

Translating The U.S. Llm Experience: The Need For A Comprehensive Examination, Carole Silver, Mayer Freed

Carole Silver

No abstract provided.


La Cláusula General Como Elemento Esencial En La Configuración De Los Actos De Competencia Desleal Enunciados Y No Enunciados, Pierino Stucchi Dec 2006

La Cláusula General Como Elemento Esencial En La Configuración De Los Actos De Competencia Desleal Enunciados Y No Enunciados, Pierino Stucchi

Pierino Stucchi

No abstract provided.


La Economía Navarra: Productividad Y Competitividad Del Sector Exterior, Javier Agudo Dec 2006

La Economía Navarra: Productividad Y Competitividad Del Sector Exterior, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

La economía Navarra es una economía fundamentalmente industrial. Debido a esta característica, Navarra podría sufrir de una manera muy dura los efectos de una deslocalización industrial, más por ejemplo que una región cuya principal fuente de ingresos sea el turismo. Por estas razones, Navarra debe estar especialmente preocupada por la pérdida de productividad de la economía española y, sobre todo, debe plantearse muy seriamente qué medidas tomar para solucionarlo.


The Gats And Legal Services In Limerick, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2006

The Gats And Legal Services In Limerick, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

One of the most significant regulatory developments for legal services is their inclusion in the 1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services or GATS. The GATS was the first world trade agreement to cover services rather than goods and it applies to legal services. The GATS in Limerick is a light-hearted but nonetheless serious effort to address the most important legal services-related GATS developments in the last twelve years. These verses cover the basic principles of the GATS, the ongoing market access negotiations and the efforts to develop disciplines on domestic regulation.