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Military Activities In The Exclusive Economic Zone: Preventing Uncertainty And Defusing Conflict, Hyun-Soo Kim May 2006

Military Activities In The Exclusive Economic Zone: Preventing Uncertainty And Defusing Conflict, Hyun-Soo Kim

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Coaltion Operations And The Law, M.H. Macdougall May 2006

Coaltion Operations And The Law, M.H. Macdougall

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Bringing Locus Into Focus: A Choice-Of-Law Methodology For Cisg-Based Concurrent Contract And Product Liability Claims, Antonin I. Pribetic May 2006

Bringing Locus Into Focus: A Choice-Of-Law Methodology For Cisg-Based Concurrent Contract And Product Liability Claims, Antonin I. Pribetic

Antonin I. Pribetic

The article discusses choice-of-law theories for both contractual and tort/product liability claims governed by the CISG. The underlying theme is that concurrent claims are not necessarily equivalent claims. While concurrent liability in contract and tort (namely, product liability) may be applicable or alternative remedies available, the focus of the CISG is the harmonization of rules governing international sale contracts. The article argues that factors such as the place of injury or where the damages are sustained are less relevant than the situs of the contract, based upon the view that, without privity of contract, the concurrent tort would not arise. …


Representing Children And International Norms, Naomi Cahn Mar 2006

Representing Children And International Norms, Naomi Cahn

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Something's Happening Here: Children And Human Rights Jurisprudence In Two International Courts, Bernardine Dohrn Mar 2006

Something's Happening Here: Children And Human Rights Jurisprudence In Two International Courts, Bernardine Dohrn

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Report Of The Working Group On The Lessons Of International Law, Norms, And Practice, Working Group On The Lessons Of International Law, Norms, And Practice Mar 2006

Report Of The Working Group On The Lessons Of International Law, Norms, And Practice, Working Group On The Lessons Of International Law, Norms, And Practice

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Strategy Of Boilerplate, Robert B. Ahdieh Mar 2006

The Strategy Of Boilerplate, Robert B. Ahdieh

Faculty Scholarship

Boilerplate can be exciting. It is this, perhaps hard-to-swallow, proposition that the present analysis attempts to convey. Particularly in invoking the work of Thomas Schelling on the role of focal points in coordination games, it offers what can be characterized as a "strategic" theory of boilerplate, in which boilerplate plays an active, even aggressive, role.

Contrary to the relatively inert quality of boilerplate implied by conventional treatments in the legal literature, boilerplate may serve essential signaling and coordination functions in contract bargaining. In appropriate circumstances, its proposed usage may be a valuable weapon in the arsenal of a bargaining party, …


The 2005 Hague Convention On Choice Of Court Clauses, Andrea Schulz Jan 2006

The 2005 Hague Convention On Choice Of Court Clauses, Andrea Schulz

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

On June 30, 2005, the Twentieth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law unanimously adopted a new Convention on Choice of Court Agreements.


Connecticut And International Law, Houston Putnam Lowry Jan 2006

Connecticut And International Law, Houston Putnam Lowry

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Most states within the United States do not consider international law in their legislative process.