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From Hot Air To Action? Climate Change, Compliance, And The Future Of International Environmental Law, Meinhard Doelle Oct 2005

From Hot Air To Action? Climate Change, Compliance, And The Future Of International Environmental Law, Meinhard Doelle

PhD Dissertations

This dissertation considers the evolution, current state, and future prognosis of the global climate change regime under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The focus of the dissertation is on State compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. Compliance is considered from the perspective of the internal compliance regime developed under the Kyoto Protocol as well as a select set of potential external international law influences. The dissertation concludes with an assessment of the level of compliance to be expected and its potential influence on the future of the climate change regime. Implications for international environmental law …


Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor Sep 2005

Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor

ExpressO

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Karen Macdonald On Constitutional Environmental Rights By Tim Hayward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 236pp., Karen Macdonald Jul 2005

Karen Macdonald On Constitutional Environmental Rights By Tim Hayward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 236pp., Karen Macdonald

Human Rights & Human Welfare

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Water Justice In South Africa: Natural Resources Policy At The Intersection Of Human Rights, Economics, & Political Power, Rose Francis Mar 2005

Water Justice In South Africa: Natural Resources Policy At The Intersection Of Human Rights, Economics, & Political Power, Rose Francis

ExpressO

This paper analyzes water as a social justice issue in South Africa, a nation that has undergone tremendous political and legal transformations over the last fifteen years, but whose population nonetheless continues to suffer from severe inequities in access to freshwater resources. In light of growing water scarcity worldwide, this paper highlights that legal treatment of water resources has significant socioeconomic and distributive justice impacts, even in progressive constitutional democracies that have embraced principles of human rights and international legal norms. The paper explores historical changes in South African water law and evaluates the current political and legal status of …


Equitable And Reasonable Use Of Water In The Euphrates-Tigris River Basin, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2005

Equitable And Reasonable Use Of Water In The Euphrates-Tigris River Basin, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

The geopolitics of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin are marked by a scarcity of both water and trust. Management of transboundary water resources has become one of the most significant challenges to the international community. Limited territorial sovereignty is emerging as a customary rule of international law and is supported by the Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, the Gabcikovo-Nagymaro case, a growing number of regional water treaties, and the majority of the most highly qualified scholars. The International Court of Justice has condemned unilateral action. Joint water management commissions and authorities enhance adaptable co-riparian cooperation. By …


Juvenile Execution, Terrorist Extradition, And Supreme Court Discretion To Consider International Death Penalty Jurisprudence, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2005

Juvenile Execution, Terrorist Extradition, And Supreme Court Discretion To Consider International Death Penalty Jurisprudence, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

European human rights law and multilateral conventions have raised United States death penalty policy to an international level. Treaties and international institutions have impacted the extradition of capital offenders and influenced the development of human rights law within the United States. Refusal to extradite without assurances that the death penalty will not be imposed has continuing ramifications for the implementation of transnational counter-terrorism measures. Determining a contemporary standard of decency regarding cruel and unusual punishment, what shocks the public conscious, or what constitutes torture depends upon what societal parameters one uses. The Supreme Court's readiness to examine international developments in …


The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa Jan 2005

The Human Right To Water: Legal And Policy Dimensions By Salman M.A. Salman And Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford, Kristen Mcgeeney, Melanie Nakagawa

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman Jan 2005

The Constitutional Right To Water In Uruguay, Rachael Moshman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch Jan 2005

Obligations Of State And Non-State Actors Regarding The Human Right To Water Under The South African Constitution, Anna R. Welch

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Improving Legislation Through Social Analysis: A Case Study In Methodology From The Water Sector In Uzbekistan, Jonathan Brown, Ayse Kudat, Kristen Mcgeeney Jan 2005

Improving Legislation Through Social Analysis: A Case Study In Methodology From The Water Sector In Uzbekistan, Jonathan Brown, Ayse Kudat, Kristen Mcgeeney

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber Jan 2005

A Personal Account: Initiating The Mcnutt Water Project In Saboba, Ghana, Ross Weber

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss Jan 2005

Inuit Circumpolar Conference V. Bush Administration: Why The Arctic Peoples Claim The United States' Role In Climate Change Has Violated Their Fundamental Human Rights And Threatens Their Very Existence, Juliette Niehuss

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Editors' Note, Kelly Rain, Kirk Herbertson Jan 2005

Editors' Note, Kelly Rain, Kirk Herbertson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis Jan 2005

Bridging The Gap: How The Millennium Development Goals Are Uniting The Fight Against Global Poverty, Kemal Dervis

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2005

Volume 6 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Post-Conflict Convergence Of Development Planning: Implementation Of The Sustainable Development Related Millennium Development Goals In Afghanistan, Belinda Bowling, Asif Ali Zaidi Jan 2005

Post-Conflict Convergence Of Development Planning: Implementation Of The Sustainable Development Related Millennium Development Goals In Afghanistan, Belinda Bowling, Asif Ali Zaidi

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Education As A Lynchpin Of Development: Legal And Policy Considerations In The Formation Of The Education For All- Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund , Sophie Smyth, Anna Triponel Jan 2005

Education As A Lynchpin Of Development: Legal And Policy Considerations In The Formation Of The Education For All- Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund , Sophie Smyth, Anna Triponel

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Promoting Gender Equality Through Global Education Targets- The Third Millennium Development Goal, Nisha Thakker Jan 2005

Promoting Gender Equality Through Global Education Targets- The Third Millennium Development Goal, Nisha Thakker

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Millennium Challenge Account: A Critical Look At The Newly Focused Development Approach And Its Potential Impact On The U.S Agency For International Development , Melanie Nakagawa Jan 2005

The Millennium Challenge Account: A Critical Look At The Newly Focused Development Approach And Its Potential Impact On The U.S Agency For International Development , Melanie Nakagawa

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Protecting Children And Their Mothers: The Millennium Development Goals Push Lofty Heath Targets, Frank Pigott Jan 2005

Protecting Children And Their Mothers: The Millennium Development Goals Push Lofty Heath Targets, Frank Pigott

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Targets, Timetables, And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach Jan 2005

Targets, Timetables, And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The End Of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time By Jeffrey Sachs Penguin Press, 2005, Elizabeth Hahn Jan 2005

The End Of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time By Jeffrey Sachs Penguin Press, 2005, Elizabeth Hahn

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


World News, Blase Kornacki, Abby Okrent, Jennifer Rohleder, Mauro Zinner Jan 2005

World News, Blase Kornacki, Abby Okrent, Jennifer Rohleder, Mauro Zinner

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Editors' Note, Melanie Nakagawa, Kirk Herbertson Jan 2005

Editors' Note, Melanie Nakagawa, Kirk Herbertson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


New Challenges In An Era Of Global Water Scarcity , David Hunter Jan 2005

New Challenges In An Era Of Global Water Scarcity , David Hunter

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Volume 5 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2005

Volume 5 Issue 1, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Indigenous Peoples' Rights To Water Under International Norms, David H. Getches Jan 2005

Indigenous Peoples' Rights To Water Under International Norms, David H. Getches

Publications

In this article, Dean Getches examines the nature of international law as it relates to indigenous water rights and evaluates the kinds of claims that native peoples might assert when they are deprived of access to water. Around the world, indigenous peoples have experienced depletion or pollution of their traditional water sources caused by the uses made by dominant, non-native societies. As a result, native peoples' ability to perform water-dependent vocations like farming and fishing, and to perpetuate cultures and spiritual practices requiring water is limited. While a few countries recognize water rights of indigenous peoples in their domestic laws, …


Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Jan 2005

Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Book Review, Lakshman D. Guruswamy Jan 2005

Book Review, Lakshman D. Guruswamy

Publications

No abstract provided.