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University of Florida Levin College of Law

2017

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Full-Text Articles in International Law

The Culture Of Gender/The Gender Of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, And Change—The Island And The Diaspora, Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol Aug 2017

The Culture Of Gender/The Gender Of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, And Change—The Island And The Diaspora, Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol

Florida Journal of International Law

The Culture of Gender/The Gender of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, and Change—The Island and the Diaspora


Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Civil Code, And The Problem Of Transculturation, Pedro A. Malavet Aug 2017

Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Civil Code, And The Problem Of Transculturation, Pedro A. Malavet

Florida Journal of International Law

Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Civil Code, and the Problem of Transculturation


The Resolution Of Conflicts Of Law - A View From Private International Law In Cuba., Taydit Peña Lorenzo Aug 2017

The Resolution Of Conflicts Of Law - A View From Private International Law In Cuba., Taydit Peña Lorenzo

Florida Journal of International Law

The Resolution of Conflicts of Law - A View from Private International Law in Cuba.


Us-Cuba Trade And The Challenge Of Diversifying A Sugar Economy, 1902-1962, Carmen Diana Deere Aug 2017

Us-Cuba Trade And The Challenge Of Diversifying A Sugar Economy, 1902-1962, Carmen Diana Deere

Florida Journal of International Law

Prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuban exports to the United States held a privileged position in the US market. Many of the country’s exports paid at least 20% less in duties than competitors and after 1934, Cuba’s main export—sugar-- had a guaranteed quota in the US market. Yet these trade agreements—specifically, the Reciprocity Convention of 1902 and the Reciprocal Trade Agreement of 1934—have often been criticized by Cuban and US scholars alike as having condemned Cuba to a monoculture economy.

Moreover, critics contend that the treaties led to the dominance of US capital in Cuba’s sugar industry, and …


Safeguards In The Cuban Legal System For The Promotion And Protection Of Foreign Investment, Marta Moreno Cruz Aug 2017

Safeguards In The Cuban Legal System For The Promotion And Protection Of Foreign Investment, Marta Moreno Cruz

Florida Journal of International Law

Safeguards in the Cuban Legal System for the Promotion and Protection of Foreign Investment


Instruments Of Environmental Governance: A Guarantee Of Sustainability In Cuba, Dagniselys Toledano Cordero Aug 2017

Instruments Of Environmental Governance: A Guarantee Of Sustainability In Cuba, Dagniselys Toledano Cordero

Florida Journal of International Law

Instruments of Environmental Governance: A Guarantee of Sustainability in Cuba


General Overview Of Cuban Family Law Legislation, Ana María Álvarez-Tabío Albo Aug 2017

General Overview Of Cuban Family Law Legislation, Ana María Álvarez-Tabío Albo

Florida Journal of International Law

General Overview of Cuban Family Law Legislation


Environmental Legislation And Institutional Framework In Cuba, Daimar Cánovas González Aug 2017

Environmental Legislation And Institutional Framework In Cuba, Daimar Cánovas González

Florida Journal of International Law

Cuban environmental legislation was not born with the revolutionary process, at least in some of its aspects. Precursors exist from the nineteenth century, provisions related to natural resources, with a clear anthropocentric focus. The Hunting Act [Ley de Caza] of 1884 and the Hunting and Fishing Act [Ley de Caza y Pesca] of January 1909, classified species as useful or harmful, in accordance with a short-term and economic view, to such a point that those species changed place in the space of about 30 years.

In the 1930s, as a consequence of an international trend, the creation of areas under …