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2004

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Measures Necessary To Ensure: The Icj's Provisional Measures Order In Avena And Other Mexican Nationals, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2004

Measures Necessary To Ensure: The Icj's Provisional Measures Order In Avena And Other Mexican Nationals, Robert D. Sloane

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This article analyzes the provisional measures order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals, the first provisional measures order issued by the ICJ after its decision in LaGrand holding that such orders have binding effect. After reviewing the background to Mexico's action, the article focuses on Avena's place in the Court's provisional measures jurisprudence, its international legal significance, its potential effects, if any, on the ICJ's perceived institutional legitimacy and authority, and its legal and political consequences for the United States. In particular, the article examines the domestic legal implications of the Court's order …


Indirect Expropriation And Its Valuation In The Bit Generation, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2004

Indirect Expropriation And Its Valuation In The Bit Generation, Robert D. Sloane

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Bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which have proliferated at an astonishing pace in the past decade, commonly seek to establish a stable, orderly framework for foreign investment by creating "favorable conditions for greater investment by nationals and companies of one state in the territory of the other state." Unlike their predecessors of an earlier generation, i.e., friendship, commerce, and navigation treaties (FCNs), in the area of foreign investment, BITs require more than the mere prohibition of expropriation without compensation. The BIT generation, weaned on Hayek and navigating amid the detritus of hundreds of well-intentioned but disastrous multilateral and national development programs, …