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The Political Economy Of International Financial Regulation, Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Indiana Law Journal

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Occupy The System! Societal Constitutionalism And Transnational Corporate Accounting, Moritz Renner

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Today's most pressing constitutional question is posed by a global economic system whose expansive tendencies seem no longer controllable. In addressing this question, the theory of Societal Constitutionalism apparently shifts established ideological coordinates by developing a theory of the self-constitutionalization of social spheres. It seeks to combine the virtues of grassroots democracy with the sophistication of systemic social theory. Thus, its normative claim can be formulated as an oxymoron: "Occupy the System!" The claim is an oxymoron because it points to the apparent impossibility of critical social theory in a functionally differentiated society: How can a functional system such as …

Private Governance Of Knowledge: Societally-Crafted Intellectual Properties Regimes, Dan Wielsch

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The evolutionary challenge global society faces is the decentralized development of legal rules that multilaterally protect social autonomies from violating each other. At the national level, democratic constitutions provide for the resolution of conflicts between different normative worlds, although the focus here is certainly on the protection of autonomies from political encroachment. However, political constitutions make sure that legal orders consider a plurality of normative perspectives. In contrast, international lawmaking can exclusively link to a specific social rationality, lacking any impartial forum for normative reconciliation. This is of special importance for the governance of intellectual resources. The incorporation of international …

The Coevolution Of Transnational Corporations And Institutions, Sarianna M. Lundan

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

While economic theories of the firm have traditionally focused on the ownership of assets, the increasing use of contractual partnerships is beginning to challenge our conception of the firm by emphasizing its coordinating role. In structuring their contracts, as well as in managing the relationships governed by the contracts, firms try to mitigate uncertainties that could destroy the value-adding potential of such transactions. These uncertainties may be specific to the transaction partner, but they might also arise from the institutional context of the contracting parties, particularly in the case of transactions that cross borders. The coevolutionary process whereby firms both …

Transnational Corporations As Steering Subjects In International Economic Law: Two Competing Visions Of The, Karsten Nowrot

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Transnational corporations (TNCs) not only occupy an important status as economic actors on the international scene, but they are also political actors who are increasingly involved in the progressive development and enforcement of the regulatory structures of the international economic system. Against this background, this article focuses on the current status and potential future development of TNCs as steering subjects in international economic law (IEL). It evaluates the role played by this category of nonstate actors in two of the central public international law fields of IEL, namely the legal order of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the international …

Values To Be Added To An "Eastphalia Order" By The Emerging China, Chang-Fa Lo

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Eastphalia Emerging?: Asia, International Law, and Global Governance, Symposium. Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009

The Wto And Domestic Political Disquiet: Has Legalization Of The Global Trade Regime Gone Too Far?, James R. Cohee

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The recent "legalization" of the global trade regime (the WTO) has inspired enormous amounts of research and literature. Fewer commentators, however, have examined WTO legalization from the perspective of domestic interest groups. I add to this growing subfield of literature by arguing that the WTO has not exceeded its boundary for domestic political acceptance, nor will it likely do so in the near future. In one respect-" judicial activism"-legalization does, however, present a threat to domestic political support. Still, drawing from historical lessons, I argue that the WTO as an institution will face irrelevance only if both protectionists and multilateralists …

The Evolution Of Sovereignty And Citizenship In Western Europe: Implications For Migration And Globalization, John D. Snethen

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Global Village, Divided World: South-North Gap And Global Health Challenges At Century's Dawn, Obijiofor Aginam

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Introduction: Globalization At The Margins: Perspectives On Globalization From Developing States Symposium, David Fidler

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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The Spectre Of Globalization, Tim Dunne

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Globalizing The Rule Of Law: Some Thoughts At And On The Periphery, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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The Roots Of Cultural Backlash In Contemporary Processes Of Globalization, Gracia Clark

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Guarding The Gates With Two Faces: International Law And Political Reconstruction, Susan Marks

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property, And Biopiracy In The (Not-So-Brave) New World Order Of International Intellectual Property Protection, Keith Aoki

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Libertad V. Liberalism: An Analysis Of The Helms-Burton Act From Within Liberal International Relations Theory, David Fidler

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Professor Fidler's article examines the Cuban Liberty and Democratic

Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of

1996,

Act, from within liberal international relations theory. He takes as his starting

point the controversy that the Helms-Burton Act has produced among liberal,

democratic states. Professor Fidler outlines the major tenets of the liberal

tradition in international relations thinking: promoting economic

interdependence, internationall aw, internationali nstitutions,a nd democracy.

He then looks at the arguments made by opponents of the Helms-Burton Act

from within each of these liberal tenets, showing how opponents believe the

Helms-Burton Act undermines economic interdependence, violates

international law, by-passes international institutions, and does …

Implications Of Global Polarization For Feminist Work, Gracia Clark

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Toward A Feminist Analytics Of The Global Economy, Saskia Sassen

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Economic globalization has reconfigured fundamental properties of the

nation-state, notably territoriality and sovereignty. There is an incipient

unbundling of the exclusive territoriality we have lcing associated with the

nation-state. The most strategic instantiation of this unbundling is probably

the global city, which operates as a partly denationalized plaform for global

capital. Sovereignty is being unbundled by these economic and other noneconomic

practices and new legal regimes. At the limit this means that the

State is no longer the only site for sovereignty and the normativity that comes

with it, and further, that the State is no longer the exclusive subject …

As The World (Or Dare I Say Globe?) Turns: Feminism And Transnationalism, Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Stop Stomping On The Rest Of Us: Retrieving Publicness From The Privatization Of The Globe, Zillah Eisenstein

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Professor Eisenstein's article discusses the effects of globalization on the

relationship between privatization and public responsibility and how this

dynamic impacts the future of women across the globe. She argues that the

global growth of privatization in the North and West has disseminated around

the world to the detriment of women. Privatization, she contends, has been

accepted as the agenda of politicians for the late twentieth century, and public

responsibility has been lost as a result.

According to Professor Eisenstein, globalization has been essentially an

economic process in which a global economy surfaces without differences or

borders. The global economy, …

Introduction: Feminism And Globalization: The Impact Of The Global Economy On Women And Feminist Theory Symposium, Alfred C. Aman

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Globalization, Privatization, And A Feminist Public, Susan H. Williams

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Dividing The Surplus: Will Globalization Give Women A Larger Or Smaller Share Of The Benefits Of Cooperative Production?, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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A Global Perspective On Current Regulatory Reform: Rejection, Relocation, Or Reinvention?, Alfred C. Aman

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Dean Alfred Aman 's article addresses recent U.S.

administrations' attempts at regulatory reform and notes that as far

as the actual reforms are concerned, there are more similarities

over time than differences. The globalization of politics and

markets and manufacturing, in particular, has helped create global

political economic forces that militate in favor of various forms of

deregulation and privatization not only in the United States, but in

other western democracies as well. Dean Aman focuses on the

United States, noting that globalization has reduced the effectiveness

of local and national regulators, especially since firms are

increasinglyf ree to choose …