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Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Threats To Prevent Future Pandemics: A Critical Analysis Of Policy Favoring The Closures Of Wildlife Markets In Latin America, Melany J. Danielson Feb 2023

Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Threats To Prevent Future Pandemics: A Critical Analysis Of Policy Favoring The Closures Of Wildlife Markets In Latin America, Melany J. Danielson

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

The Preventing Future Pandemics Act was introduced to mitigate zoonotic disease threats around the world by focusing policy efforts on the closure of wildlife markets that gave rise to COVID–19. This Note challenges the efficacy of wildlife market closure policy by considering cultural, socioeconomic, and legal factors for the existence of wildlife market within megadiverse countries in Latin America. Based on scientific research on the animal-to-human interface and zoonotic disease transmission, this Note suggests effective policy should incorporate a targeted species ban for reservoir species, improved sanitary measures and disease surveillance, and wildlife trafficking prevention. Ultimately, this Note calls for …


Is There Force In Force Majeure After Covid-19 Or In The Freedom To Negotiate Risk?, Sara Lazarevic Feb 2023

Is There Force In Force Majeure After Covid-19 Or In The Freedom To Negotiate Risk?, Sara Lazarevic

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

This note explores the impact COVID–19 has had on contracting parties who have attempted to implicate force majeure provisions. An inquiry of recent cases reveals varying degrees of success and tension when parties turn towards force majeure text. This Note analyzes common law alternatives, discusses the implication of force majeure clauses as applied under Mexican and American law, highlights the implications that have played out in recent court decisions, and discusses post–pandemic implications that could affect how parties conduct cross–border transactions in the future.


How Hard Can This Be? The Dearth Of U.S. Tax Treaties With Latin America, Patricia A. Brown Feb 2020

How Hard Can This Be? The Dearth Of U.S. Tax Treaties With Latin America, Patricia A. Brown

University of Miami Law Review

The United States has fewer tax treaties with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean than the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and even China have with such countries. After first describing ways in which tax treaties reduce barriers to cross-border trade and investment, this Article considers in turn various possible explanations for this situation. It examines, and rejects, the hypothesis that Latin American countries are reluctant to enter into tax treaties in general. It then considers, and rejects, the possibility that Latin American countries are opposed to in-creased trade and investment from the United States in particular. It then …


Arbitration In Latin America: Overcoming Traditional Hostility (An Update), Horacio A. Grigers Naón Jul 1991

Arbitration In Latin America: Overcoming Traditional Hostility (An Update), Horacio A. Grigers Naón

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings Jul 1991

Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Changing Hemispheric Trade Environment: Opportunities And Obstacles Jul 1991

The Changing Hemispheric Trade Environment: Opportunities And Obstacles

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Options For A Hemispheric Trade Order, Gary C. Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Scott Jul 1991

Options For A Hemispheric Trade Order, Gary C. Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Scott

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Uruguay Round Of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Developments And Prospects, Luis Abugattas Jul 1991

The Uruguay Round Of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Developments And Prospects, Luis Abugattas

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Uruguay Round Of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Developments And Prospects, Luis Abugattas Jul 1991

The Uruguay Round Of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Developments And Prospects, Luis Abugattas

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Options For A Hemispheric Trade Order, Gary C. Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Scott Jul 1991

Options For A Hemispheric Trade Order, Gary C. Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Scott

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Single European Market And Its Impact On U.S.-Latin American Trade Relations, Wolf Grabendorff Jul 1991

The Single European Market And Its Impact On U.S.-Latin American Trade Relations, Wolf Grabendorff

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Arbitration In Latin America: Overcoming Traditional Hostility (An Update), Horacio A. Grigers Naón Jul 1991

Arbitration In Latin America: Overcoming Traditional Hostility (An Update), Horacio A. Grigers Naón

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Single European Market And Its Impact On U.S.-Latin American Trade Relations, Wolf Grabendorff Jul 1991

The Single European Market And Its Impact On U.S.-Latin American Trade Relations, Wolf Grabendorff

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Changing Hemispheric Trade Environment: Opportunities And Obstacles Jul 1991

The Changing Hemispheric Trade Environment: Opportunities And Obstacles

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings Jul 1991

Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Solutions To U.S. Antidumping And Countervailing Duty Actions Against Latin American Companies, Homer E. Moyer Jr., Catherine Curtiss Jan 1990

Solutions To U.S. Antidumping And Countervailing Duty Actions Against Latin American Companies, Homer E. Moyer Jr., Catherine Curtiss

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Judicial Resolution Of Legal Disputes In The Integration Movements Of The Hemisphere, David J. Padilla Apr 1979

The Judicial Resolution Of Legal Disputes In The Integration Movements Of The Hemisphere, David J. Padilla

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Evaluation Of The Andean Pact, Rafael Vargas-Hidalgo Sep 1978

An Evaluation Of The Andean Pact, Rafael Vargas-Hidalgo

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Economic Integration, Development Planning And Sovereignty: A Latin American View, Rafael Vargas-Hidalgo Jun 1977

Economic Integration, Development Planning And Sovereignty: A Latin American View, Rafael Vargas-Hidalgo

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Andean Code After Five Years, Roberto Dañino Oct 1976

The Andean Code After Five Years, Roberto Dañino

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Andean Group's Program For Industrial Development Of The Metalworking Sector: Integration With Due And Deliberate Spid, D. B. Furnish, W. F. Atkin Feb 1975

The Andean Group's Program For Industrial Development Of The Metalworking Sector: Integration With Due And Deliberate Spid, D. B. Furnish, W. F. Atkin

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.