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James T Gathii

2013

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Full-Text Articles in International Trade Law

Insulating Domestic Policy Through International Legal Minimalism: A Re-Characterization Of The Foreign Affairs Trade Doctrine, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Insulating Domestic Policy Through International Legal Minimalism: A Re-Characterization Of The Foreign Affairs Trade Doctrine, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


African Regional Trade Agreements As Flexible Legal Regimes, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

African Regional Trade Agreements As Flexible Legal Regimes, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Under-Appreciated Jurisprudence Of African Regional Trade Judiciaries, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Under-Appreciated Jurisprudence Of African Regional Trade Judiciaries, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Process And Substance In Wto Reform, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Process And Substance In Wto Reform, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


How American Support For Freedom Of Commerce Legitimized King Leopold’S Territorial Ambitions In The Congo, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

How American Support For Freedom Of Commerce Legitimized King Leopold’S Territorial Ambitions In The Congo, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Retelling Good Governance Narratives On Africa’S Economic And Political Predicaments: Continuities And Discontinuities In Legal Outcomes Between Markets And States, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Retelling Good Governance Narratives On Africa’S Economic And Political Predicaments: Continuities And Discontinuities In Legal Outcomes Between Markets And States, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Neoliberalism, Colonialism And International Governance: Decentering The International Law Of Governmental Legitimacy, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Neoliberalism, Colonialism And International Governance: Decentering The International Law Of Governmental Legitimacy, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Corruption And Donor Reforms: Expanding The Promises And Possibilities Of The Rule Of Law As An Anti-Corruption Strategy In Kenya, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Corruption And Donor Reforms: Expanding The Promises And Possibilities Of The Rule Of Law As An Anti-Corruption Strategy In Kenya, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


African Regional Trade Agreements As Legal Regimes, James Gathii May 2013

African Regional Trade Agreements As Legal Regimes, James Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Curtailing Ecosystem Exportation: Ecosystem Services As A Basis To Reconsider The Merits Of Export-Driven Agriculture In Economies Highly Dependent On Agricultural Exports, James T. Gathii, Keith H. Hirokawa Mar 2013

Curtailing Ecosystem Exportation: Ecosystem Services As A Basis To Reconsider The Merits Of Export-Driven Agriculture In Economies Highly Dependent On Agricultural Exports, James T. Gathii, Keith H. Hirokawa

James T Gathii

ABSTRACT Functioning ecosystems play a critical role in providing goods and services needed to sustain human life.' Water provision and filtration, biodiversity, nutrient cycling, climate regulation, and carbon sequestration are all examples of services ecosystems provide that no society could survive without.2 Yet ecosystem services have historically been taken for granted, depleted by intention or ignorance, and replaced with inadequate substitutes.' Recent research on ecosystem services has exposed the shockingly high local, regional, and global costs of losing these essential services.'


The Neoliberal Turn In Regional Trade Agreements, James T. Gathii Mar 2013

The Neoliberal Turn In Regional Trade Agreements, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

Abstract: This Article makes two primary arguments. First that the increased resort to bilateral and regional trade agreements has taken a neoliberal turn. As such bilateral and regional trade agreements are now a primary means through which greater investor protections, commodification of social services, guaranteed rights of investor access to investment opportunities, privatization of public service goods, and generally the diminution of sovereign control are being realized. These trade agreements make the foregoing goals possible not just in developing countries, but in industrialized economies as well. I show that these agreements provide business interests with opportunities to exercise concerted pressure …