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The Place Of Human Rights Law In World Trade Organization Rules, Stephen Joseph Powell Feb 2004

The Place Of Human Rights Law In World Trade Organization Rules, Stephen Joseph Powell

Stephen Joseph Powell

WTO rules routinely are linked to the inability of nations to make meaningful progress in sharpening environmental and other human rights protections, for example, the failure of the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development to usher in any new treaties despite the bright promise of the Rio Earth Summit of the previous decade. The common brief of environmental, medical, and development interest groups is that the market principles of supply and demand, comparative advantage, and non-discrimination on which global trade rules are built have encumbered pursuit by nations of fundamental non-economic objectives that must in any reasoned legal hierarchy …


Etat Des Lieux Des Droits De L’Homme, Du Droit International Humanitaire Et Du Droit International Pénal Face Aux Requêtes En «Réparation» Des Grands Crimes De L’Histoire: Bilan Prospectif (In French), Bartram Brown Dec 2003

Etat Des Lieux Des Droits De L’Homme, Du Droit International Humanitaire Et Du Droit International Pénal Face Aux Requêtes En «Réparation» Des Grands Crimes De L’Histoire: Bilan Prospectif (In French), Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Barely Borders: Issues Of International Law, Bartram Brown Dec 2003

Barely Borders: Issues Of International Law, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


Intervention, Self-Determination, Democracy And The Residual Responsibilities Of The Occupying Power In Iraq, Bartram Brown Dec 2003

Intervention, Self-Determination, Democracy And The Residual Responsibilities Of The Occupying Power In Iraq, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

No abstract provided.


America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2003

America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

No abstract provided.


Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2003

Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

No abstract provided.


The Political Economy Of The Production Of Customary International Law: The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2003

The Political Economy Of The Production Of Customary International Law: The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Increasingly, United States courts are recognizing various treaties, as well as declarations, proclamations, conventions, resolutions, programmes, protocols, and similar forms of inter- or multi-national “legislation” as evidence of a body of “customary international law” enforceable in domestic courts, particularly in the area of tort liability. These “legislative” documents, which this Article refers to as customary international law outputs, are seen by some courts as evidence of jus cogens norms that bind not only nations and state actors, but also private individuals. The most obvious evidence of this trend is in the proliferation of lawsuits against corporations with ties to the …