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Paying For The Past: Addressing Past Property Violations In South Africa, Bernadette Atuahene
Paying For The Past: Addressing Past Property Violations In South Africa, Bernadette Atuahene
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From Control To Communication: Science, Philosophy And World Trade Law, Sungjoon Cho
From Control To Communication: Science, Philosophy And World Trade Law, Sungjoon Cho
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Science has recently become increasingly salient in various fields of international law. In particular, the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement stipulates that a regulating state must provide scientific justification for its food safety measures. Paradoxically, however, this ostensibly neutral reference to science tends to complicate treaty interpretation. It tends to take treaty interpretation beyond a conventional methodology under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which is primarily concerned with clarifying and articulating the treaty text. The two decades old transatlantic trade dispute over hormone-treated beef is a case in point. This article demonstrates that beneath the controversy …
International Criminal Law: Nature, Origins And A Few Key Issues, Bartram Brown
International Criminal Law: Nature, Origins And A Few Key Issues, Bartram Brown
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The purpose of international criminal law is to establish the criminal responsibility of individuals for international crimes. Public international law is traditionally focused on the rights and obligations of states, and thus is not particularly well suited to this task. It has adapted through a long and slow historical process, drawing upon multiple sources. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore to some extent the historical development of international criminal law. I will not attempt to summarize that history in detail, but a few historical observations here will help to explain how international criminal law emerged from its sources …
Property Rights And The Demands Of Transformation, Bernadette Atuahene
Property Rights And The Demands Of Transformation, Bernadette Atuahene
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