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Multipolarity, Intellectual Property And The Internationalization Of Public Health Law, Sam F. Halabi
Multipolarity, Intellectual Property And The Internationalization Of Public Health Law, Sam F. Halabi
Faculty Publications
This Article critically examines the proliferation of international legal agreements addressing global health threats like the outbreak of infectious diseases, tobacco use and lack of access to affordable medicines. The conventional wisdom behind this trend is that a global normative shift has occurred which has caused states to regard health as “special” and less subject to the normal rules of international law making because health threats endanger all of humanity. This Article challenges that thesis, arguing that at the same time the number and scope of international health law treaties has grown, developed states have subordinated health law to intellectual …
Rogue Debtors And Unanticipated Risk, S. I. Strong
Rogue Debtors And Unanticipated Risk, S. I. Strong
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Commercial actors are becoming increasingly concerned about the effect that various types of political risk, including the risk of sovereign default, has on their investments. This Essay considers the problem of rogue debtors (i.e., states that intentionally ignore their legal and financial obligations) as a type of unanticipated risk and analyzes how well various responses, including domestic litigation, interstate negotiation and investment arbitration, address investors’ needs. In particular, the discussion focuses on how effective investment arbitration is in overcoming a number of difficulties traditionally associated with rogue debtors and the various means by which states are attempting to bypass the …
A New Framework For Assessing Clinical Data Transparency Initiatives, Erika Lietzan
A New Framework For Assessing Clinical Data Transparency Initiatives, Erika Lietzan
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Biopharmaceutical companies submit vast amounts of clinical data and analysis to support approval of their medicines, expecting the information to be kept confidential, as has been the practice of regulators around the world for decades. Over the last ten years, however, pressure has been mounting for regulators or industry to release this information. Legal scholars have generally taken the view that no relevant doctrines or bodies of law preclude the release of this material and that public policy considerations compel its release. This article argues that the scholarship to date has overlooked key considerations: the special issues presented by operation …
Beyond International Commercial Arbitration? The Promise Of International Commercial Mediation, S. I. Strong
Beyond International Commercial Arbitration? The Promise Of International Commercial Mediation, S. I. Strong
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Although international commercial arbitration has long been the preferred means of resolving cross-border business disputes, the international corporate community has become increasingly concerned about increasing costs, delays and procedural formalities. As a result, parties are looking for other means of resolving cross-border business disputes. One of the more popular alternatives is mediation. Advocates of mediation extol its many benefits, including its ability to resolve disputes more quickly and with fewer costs and formalities than other alternatives. However, very little research exists on how mediation operates in the international commercial context. This Essay therefore considers whether and to what extent international …
Limits Of Procedural Choice Of Law, S. I. Strong
Limits Of Procedural Choice Of Law, S. I. Strong
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Commercial parties have long enjoyed significant autonomy in questions of substantive law. However, litigants do not have anywhere near the same amount of freedom to decide procedural matters. Instead, parties in litigation are generally considered to be subject to the procedural law of the forum court.
Although this particular conflict of laws rule has been in place for many years, a number of recent developments have challenged courts and commentators to consider whether and to what extent procedural rules should be considered mandatory in nature. If procedural rules are not mandatory but are instead merely “sticky” defaults, then it may …
Jerusalem In The Courts And On The Ground, Sam F. Halabi
Jerusalem In The Courts And On The Ground, Sam F. Halabi
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This Article analyzes presidential speeches and the pleadings of the U.S. Government in response to a lawsuit by Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen Menachem Zivotofsky seeking to have "Israel" listed in his U.S. passport rather than "Jerusalem" as U.S. law now requires. The picture that emerges is one of a growing flexibility in U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine in general and Jerusalem in particular. That flexibility moves away from adherence to two states (and impliedly two capitals in Jerusalem) to one emphasizing various "kinds" of democracy that may characterize a future Israeli state. Part I of this Article provides a brief summary of …
Anti-Arbitration Injunctions In Cases Involving Investor-State Arbitration: British Caribbean Bank Ltd. V. The Government Of Belize, S. I. Strong
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Over the last few years, the international legal community has become increasingly interested in anti-arbitration injunctions, which are analogous to antisuit injunctions except that the former prohibits the initiation or continuation of an arbitration while the latter focuses on judicial actions. At this point, very few courts have actually issued an injunction of this type. Nevertheless, a number of commentators have expressed concern about these mechanisms, since they can wreak havoc with contractual or treaty-based expectations about how a particular dispute is to be resolved. Indeed, some scholars and practitioners would prefer that these sorts of injunctions be made universally …