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Is Free Trade "Free?" Is It Even "Trade?" Oppression And Consent In Hemispheric Trade Agreements, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Is Free Trade "Free?" Is It Even "Trade?" Oppression And Consent In Hemispheric Trade Agreements, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

In order for free trade as a policy to deliver fully on its social promise, it must be both “free” and “trade.” In fact, it must be free, in the sense of voluntary, to be trade at all. In other words, for normative and practical reasons, free trade requires that global economic relations be structured through agreements which reflect the consent of those subject to them. The neoliberal trading system today only imperfectly lives up to this obligation. In this essay, I will examine the role of consent in trade agreements, drawing on examples from CAFTA as representative of important …


The Integration Of Smaller Economies Into The Ftaa, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

The Integration Of Smaller Economies Into The Ftaa, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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The Global Market And Human Rights: Trading Away The Human Rights Principle, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

The Global Market And Human Rights: Trading Away The Human Rights Principle, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Successful Case Of Regional Trade Regulation, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Successful Case Of Regional Trade Regulation, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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Decisionmaking And Dispute Resolution In The Free Trade Area Of The Americas: An Essay In Trade Governance, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Decisionmaking And Dispute Resolution In The Free Trade Area Of The Americas: An Essay In Trade Governance, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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The Moral Hazard Problem In Global Economic Regulation, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

The Moral Hazard Problem In Global Economic Regulation, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Global regulation of international business transactions presents a particular form of the moral hazard problem. Global firms use economic and political power to manipulate state and state-controlled multilateral regulation to preserve their opportunity to externalize the social costs of global economic activity with impunity. Unless other actors can effectively counter this at the national and global regulatory levels, globalization re-creates the conditions for under-regulated or “robber baron” capitalism at the global level. This model of economic activity has been rejected at the national level by the same modern democratic capitalist states which currently dominate globalization, creating a crisis of legitimacy …


Building A Just Trade Order For A New Millennium, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Building A Just Trade Order For A New Millennium, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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A "Fair" Trade Law Of Nations Or A "Fair" Global Law Of Economic Relations?, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

A "Fair" Trade Law Of Nations Or A "Fair" Global Law Of Economic Relations?, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Trade And Justice: Linking The Trade Linkage Debates, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Trade And Justice: Linking The Trade Linkage Debates, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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Review Of Legal Polycentricity And International Law, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Review Of Legal Polycentricity And International Law, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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"Americas Agreements" - An Interim Stage In Building The Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

"Americas Agreements" - An Interim Stage In Building The Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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Introduction -- The Trade Linkage Phenomenon: Pointing The Way To The Trade Law And Global Social Policy Of The 21st Century, Frank J. Garcia Oct 2011

Introduction -- The Trade Linkage Phenomenon: Pointing The Way To The Trade Law And Global Social Policy Of The 21st Century, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Three Takes On Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2009

Three Takes On Global Justice, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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Global Justice And The Bretton Woods Institutions, Frank J. Garcia Aug 2007

Global Justice And The Bretton Woods Institutions, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Together with the WTO, the Bretton Woods Institutions are the preeminent international institutions devoted to managing international economic relations. This mandate puts them squarely in the center of the debate concerning development, inequality and global justice. This essay explores how justice criteria might apply to the ideology and operations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Using the Rawlsian model of egalitarian justice adapted to international institutions by the author in connection with the WTO, this essay asks what difference it would make for the Bank and Fund if an explicit justice framework informed their international lending activities.


Review Of The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice And Policy, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2005

Review Of The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice And Policy, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Why Trade Law Needs A Theory Of Justice, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2005

Why Trade Law Needs A Theory Of Justice, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Trade, Constitutionalism And Human Rights: An Overview, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2001

Trade, Constitutionalism And Human Rights: An Overview, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Law Of Peoples, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2000

Review Of The Law Of Peoples, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Evaluating International Economic Law Dispute Resolution Mechanisms, Frank J. Garcia Dec 2000

Evaluating International Economic Law Dispute Resolution Mechanisms, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


The Usefulness Of Which Rawls?, Frank J. Garcia Dec 1999

The Usefulness Of Which Rawls?, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Review Of Legal Polycentricity And International Law, Frank J. Garcia Dec 1995

Review Of Legal Polycentricity And International Law, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.