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Full-Text Articles in International Law
The Ministerial Exception: Our Lady Of Guadalupe School And Antidiscrimination Employment Laws, Shelly A. Yeini
The Ministerial Exception: Our Lady Of Guadalupe School And Antidiscrimination Employment Laws, Shelly A. Yeini
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Ministerial Exception (ME) is a legal doctrine providing that antidiscrimination employment laws do not apply to the relationship between religious institutions and their ministers. Such a notion appears in various democracies, as it aims to confront a shared problem: the attempt to solve the clash between antidiscrimination employment laws and religious autonomy. Liberal democracies strive to protect employees from discrimination, as well as to accommodate freedom of religion, which cannot be fulfilled without the existence of religious organizations. While being able to choose their staff is at the heart of the existence of religious institutions, the fulfillment of such …
Enforcing International Labor Standards: The Potential Of The Alien Tort Claims Act, Marisa A. Pagnattaro
Enforcing International Labor Standards: The Potential Of The Alien Tort Claims Act, Marisa A. Pagnattaro
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Professor Pagnattaro argues that courts should allow claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) to enforce international labor rights for alien workers. She begins by reviewing the history of the ATCA and the developing jurisprudence in the international labor context, including recent and pending cases involving employee ATCA claims against U.S. multinational corporations. After outlining what is necessary to assert an ATCA claim, including what is required to satisfy jurisdictional requirements, to state a claim under the law of nations, and to hold employers liable for violations of the law of nations, she details international foundations which can be …
Mahoney V. Rfe/Rl: An Unexpected Direction For The Foreign Laws Defense, Thomas Wang
Mahoney V. Rfe/Rl: An Unexpected Direction For The Foreign Laws Defense, Thomas Wang
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A law is only as good, or as powerful, as its exceptions allow it to be. Unless carefully drawn, an exception intended to avoid unjust or impractical applications of a rule can consume the rule itself. In the case of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Title VII, which were amended to apply to U.S. citizens working abroad, the "foreign laws defense," as interpreted in Mahoney v. RFE/RL, threatens to defeat the application of the general rule prohibiting discrimination. This Note briefly traces the history of the extraterritorial application of U.S. law and the interests that were served by …
A Draft Labor Code For Minsk: From Byelorussia With Love?, Lucas G. Paglia
A Draft Labor Code For Minsk: From Byelorussia With Love?, Lucas G. Paglia
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Belarus, a former Eastern bloc country located between Russia and Poland, has drafted a comprehensive labor code to govern employment relations. This Note presents the historical underpinnings of the legislation, its major provisions, and its prospects for successfully handling labor disputes as well as encouraging foreign investment. The author first explores the current labor environment in Belarus, especially focusing on the recent privatization of industry, and its amenability to such regulation. The Note then analyzes specific provisions of the labor code and compares them to the National Labor Relations Act in the United States, as well as the conditions under …
Economic Globalization: The Challenge For Arbitrators, Ranee K.L. Panjabi
Economic Globalization: The Challenge For Arbitrators, Ranee K.L. Panjabi
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
CHOICE OF LAW IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
By Okezie Chukwumerije
Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1994. Pp. 219.
Arbitration at the municipal level is becoming more frequently used because it is regarded as a more expeditious process for resolving disputes. In the realm of labor relations, for instance, arbitration is often the dispute resolution method of choice and is incorporated in numerous collective agreements. In an arbitration the two parties usually select an arbitrator and jointly pay the costs of the process. In the collective agreement or contract, the parties stipulate the terms of the procedure that generally bind the arbitrator, …
Changing The Approach To Ending Child Labor: An International Solution To An International Problem, Timothy A. Glut
Changing The Approach To Ending Child Labor: An International Solution To An International Problem, Timothy A. Glut
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A recent study by the United States Department of Labor has revealed that oppressive child labor is a serious problem in many countries. This Note begins by examining the international scope of the child labor problem, including the underlying reasons for its continued existence. The Note then discusses measures, both unilateral and multilateral, for curtailing child labor. The author determines that these measures are insufficient to end the child labor problem and discusses potential solutions to the problem. The author concludes that the most effective measure to end child labor would be a multilateral agreement with clear standards and an …
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Extraterritorial Employment Standards of the United States: The Regulation of the Overseas Workplace
By James Michael Zimmerman
New York, New York: Quorum Books, 1992. Pp.206.
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Fact-Finding before International Tribunals
Edited by Richard B. Lillich
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Transnational Publishers Inc., 1992, Pp. 338.
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International Human Rights Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Edited by Angela D. Byre and Bevereley Y. Byfield
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991. Pp. 398.
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law By William B. Gould Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1984. Pp.xii, 166. $19.95.
World Economic Outlook By The Staff of the International Monetary Fund Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund,1984. Pp. ix, 162. $15.00.
Recent Multilateral Debt Restructurings With Official and Bank Creditors By E. Brau and R.C. Williams Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1983. Pp. vii, 28. $5.00.
The Fund, Commercial Banks, and Member Countries By Paul Mentre Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1984. Pp. v, 35. $5.00.
International Law and the New States of Africa By Yilma Makonnen New York: Unipub, 1983. Pp. …
Book Reviews, David M. Helfeld, Robert N. Covington, Howard J. Taubenfeld
Book Reviews, David M. Helfeld, Robert N. Covington, Howard J. Taubenfeld
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
U.S. Multinationals and Worker Participation in Management: The American Experience in the European Community By Ton DeVos Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1981. Pp. 229.
Reviewed by David M. Helfeld
Cooperation between Management and Labor By Walter Kolvenbach Deventer, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1982. Pp. 89. Dfl. 65.00, $26.00.
Reviewed by Robert N. Covington
Utilization of Outer Space and International Law By Gijs Bertha C.M. Reijnen. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: Elsevier,1981. Pp. 179. $65.30.
Reviewed by Howard J. Taubenfeld
Case Digest, Law Review Staff
Case Digest, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A Cargo Container Used to Ship Packaged Units is not a "Package" for Purposes of Limiting the Carrier's Liability for Loss under COSGA
Exemption from Compulsory Military Service will not Act as a Bar to Citizenship for an Alien if the Classification was later Changed to Make Him Eligible to Serve
Indeterminate Detension of an Excludable Alien in a Maximum Security Prison, Pending Unforeseeable Deportation, violates International Law
Patentholders do not Violate Antitrust Laws by Licensing only Foreign Patents even though the Patent Dependency created Limits Domestic Competition
Arbitral Tribunal lacks Jurisdiction to Hear the Claims of a Corporation Qualifying …
Whither The Commission On Human Rights: A Report After The 35th Session, Gerson Smoger
Whither The Commission On Human Rights: A Report After The 35th Session, Gerson Smoger
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The statement that the Commission on Human Rights "functions as the focal point of the United Nation's concentration on the international observance of human rights" is fraught with definitional inconsistencies. Throughout its existence one of the main problems faced by the members of the Commission has been to agree upon the appropriate limits of the expression "human rights." The question arises whether the term includes the right of a retired school teacher to speak out against his country's employment practices or his entitlement to receive social security after his departure from the teaching force. If these are both considered to …