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Married To Sustainability: The Sdg Wedding Cake Framework As A Tool For Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, Jacob Aubrecht

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

If anything can be said about the future, it is that nothing is certain. In this acceleratingly dynamic reality, stability and certainty are among the greatest assets a leader can have. The opportunity to secure long term stability is something that few would pass up. Broadly speaking, corporate leaders must be acutely aware of global market forces, government regulation, and their own power in the marketplace to create cogent predictions about the future.

This paper is designed for the burgeoning corporate leader that is looking to craft their strategic position on corporate social responsibility (CSR), or the savvy one looking …

National And International Sources Of Women's Right To Equal Employment Opportunities: Equality In Law Versus Equality In Fact, Jill Andrews

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Women's right to equal employment opportunity has been recognized virtually worldwide. In fact, one-third of the total world labor force consists of women.' As the higher echelons in employment are reached, however, the number of positions occupied by women tapers off dramatically.2 Thus, while the right to equal employment opportunity is acknowledged, enforcement remains a formidable challenge. Although facially similar laws prohibiting discrimination in the recruitment, promotion and working conditions of women have been enacted by United Nations member countries, the United States, the European Community and Japan, the difference between equality in law and equality in fact lies with …

Book Review: Uniform Law For Internatioal Sales Under The 1980 United Nations Convention By John Honnold

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

In 1980, a Diplomatic Conference of sixty-two states unanimously approved the United Nations Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods. This action concluded almost fifty years of effor to unify the law for the international sale of goods and, in the process, superseded the frequently criticized 1964 Hague Convention on the Uniform Law for the International Sale of Goods (ULIS) and the Uniform Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (ULF). Since that time, 21 states, including the United States, have signed the 1980 Convention and 2 states have ratified it.

A New Uniform Law For The International Sale Of Goods: Is It Compatible With American Interests?, Martin L. Ziontz

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The prospects for adoption of a law gov- erning commercial' contracts for the international sale of goods should be of compelling interest to American merchants and their legal advi- sors. The text which was presented to the diplomatic conference in March was completed by the United Nations Commission on Interna- tional Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 1978.1 Its eighty-two articles em- body the substantive revisions of a similar document that was rejected by the United States sixteen years ago'--the 1964 Hague Convention Relating to a Uniform Law for the International Sale of Goods