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Town Of Sandown, New Hampshire Annual Report Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2002., Sandown Town Representatives

Sandown, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Narrative Report Of The Town Officers Of Amherst, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2002 And Financial Records For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2002., Amherst Town Representatives

Amherst, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report For The Town Of Danbury, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2002., Danbury Town Representatives

Danbury, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Town Offices Of Dalton, New Hampshre, For The Year Ending December 31, 2002., Dalton Town Representatives

Dalton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Intersection Between Welfare Reform And Child Support Enforcement: D.C.’S Weak Link, Stacy Brustin

Scholarly Articles

This Article examines the effectiveness with which the District of Columbia has linked welfare reform and child support collection. Part I discusses the ways in which the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation significantly altered federal and state child support systems. Part II shifts the discussion from the national arena to the District of Columbia and explores legislative, executive, and judicial responses to child support enforcement in the wake of federal welfare reform.

Part III recommends ways in which the District of Columbia can improve its enforcement system and suggests that it is not enough to simply establish child support orders; …

The Catalyst Calamity: Post-Buckhannon Fee-Shifting In Environmental Litigation And A Proposal For Congressional Action, Lucia A. Silecchia

Scholarly Articles

Acknowledging the importance of citizen suits in giving teeth to environmental laws, and recognizing the often prohibitive costs of such litigation, Congress often included fee-shifting provisions in most environmental citizen suit statutes. It is well established that plaintiffs who win a judicial ruling in their favor qualify for the benefits of such fee-shifting. What is less clear is whether those parties whose successes come outside the courtroom - as is often true in the environmental context - can also recover fees. In the past, the so-called “catalyst theory” answered this question affirmatively. However, in 2001, the catalyst theory was dealt …

2003 Dri Symposium Bibliography, Hamline University

DRI Symposia

No abstract provided.

How Great Are "Great Books For Girls?" : An Examination Of Gender Messages In Recommended Literature For Adolescent Girls, Sandi Caldrone

Honors Capstones

A number of booklists recommending novels that can help children expand their ideas of gender roles have been recently published, in part because of the recent attention paid to the drops in self-esteem and academic performance adolescent girls experience related to gender roles. I examined several of these booklists and a small sample of the novels they recommend. Although many of the recommended novels offered readers examples of nontraditional heroines, they also perpetuated gender bias to some degree. In order for literature to be an effective tool in changing children’s definitions of gender, parents, educators, and authors need to be …

Security And The Economy In The North American Context: The Road Ahead For Nafta - U.S. Speaker, Gary C. Hufbauer, Yee Wong

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Smart Border: Food Safety And Bioterrorism - Canadian Speaker, John Mcnamara

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Preserving The Integrity Of Financial Markets In North America - Canadian Speaker, John F. M. Crean

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Discussion Following The Remarks Of Mr. Power And Mr. Cole, Discussion

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

New Recommendations On International Human Research: Can Minimum Standards Prevent The Exploitation Of Vulnerable Human Subjects In Developing Countries, Rebecca A. Finkenbinder

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

A Wink And A Nod: The Hoffman Case And Its Effects On Freedom Of Association For Undocumented Workers, Jill Borak

Human Rights Brief

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Obligations And Implications For Ships Encountering Persons In Need Of Assistance At Sea, Martin Davies

Washington International Law Journal

While there are multiple obligations to rescue individuals lost at sea, mostly expressed in multilateral treaties, there are limited mechanisms for enforcing those laws. Enforcement needs to be accomplished through criminal law, as the civil lawsuit is a poor mechanism. The United States and Australia provide adequate examples of the implementation, or lack thereof, of international treaties into criminal law. However, even where the various treaties have been incorporated into the law of the nation by implementing legislation, the enforcement remains ineffective. This is partially because the onus of enforcement falls primarily on the flag state of the ship in …

Refugees And Responsibility In The Twenty-First Century: More Lessons Learned From The South Pacific, Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Washington International Law Journal

[G]overnments throughout the world have tried to avoid dealing with the difficult questions raised by refugee and related movements. One method is to seek to redefine the problem as one not involving obligation or responsibility. Some governments also use the law in an attempt to limit the scope of their obligations. Another technique . . . is to engage in an exercise of extra-territorial jurisdiction . . . and to seek to justify that practice on the ground that somehow obligations towards refugees need not be observed. States have also tried detention, discriminatory treatment, and denial of other human rights …

In The Zone: Why The United States Should Sign The Protocol To The Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Erik A. Corneillier

Washington International Law Journal

U.S. officials are moving away from supporting international law as a mechanism for preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. For example, the Bush Administration recently refused to sign the Protocol to the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone ("SEANWFZ"). U.S. officials, relying on a policy of nuclear deterrence, maintain that this treaty unnecessarily limits freedom of navigation, creates the possibility of territorial disputes, and accords overly broad negative security assurances to the region. This Comment argues that these concerns are unfounded, and that signing the Protocol would promote U.S. and world security. Successful implementation of SEANWFZ, which requires support from …

The Failure Of Domestic And International Mechanisms To Redress The Harmful Effects Of Australian Immigration Detention, Adrienne D. Mcentee

Washington International Law Journal

Australia's Migration Act explicitly permits the government to detain non-citizens seeking entry without visas, including those who request asylum. Detainees wait up to five years for their immigration claims to be processed in detention centers managed by Australasian Correctional Management ("ACM"), a subsidiary of U.S. corporation Wackenhut Corrections. Arriving asylum-seekers often suffer the lasting effects of torture, threats of death, and other traumatic conditions-effects that are exacerbated by detention conditions. This Comment emphasizes detention's effects on children, who suffer health and other problems while detained. Detainees, Australian citizens, and overseas commentators are now protesting against the detention policy. The government's …

Is It The Beginning Of The Era Of The Rule Of The Constitution? Reinterpreting China's "First Constitutional Case, Shen Kui, Yuping Liu

Washington International Law Journal

The subject of this article is the so-called "first constitutional case" in China. The Qi Yuling case is, in a sense, the very first time since the foundation of the People's Republic of China that constitutional provisions have been directly invoked by the Supreme People's Court in a civil lawsuit to protect a citizen's right to receive education, one of the fundamental rights protected by the Constitution. The Qi Yuling case, therefore, has given rise to much discussion on issues of judicial interpretation of the Constitution and the Constitution's application in the private domain, as well as the institution of …

The European Union's Efforts To Sidestep The Wto Through Its Ban On Gmos: A Response To Sarah Lively's Paper, "The Abcs And Ntbs Of Gmos", Johannes S.A. Iii Claus

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The purpose of this paper is to refute Ms. Sarah Lively's article, the ABCs and NTBS of GMOs, detailing the reasons why the E.U. legislation is not in harmony with the WTO agreements. This paper will argue that if a WTO dispute settlement body were to decide upon the validity of the current European GMO regime, it would strike down the regulation as contrary to the WTO agreements signed by the European Union and the United States. The European Union's four year moratorium on GMOs continues to be one of the most hotly-contested trade issues facing it and the United …

The Protection Of Test And Other Data Required By Article 39.3 Of The Trips Agreement, G. Lee Skillington, Eric M. Solovy

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the origins, purpose and scope of protection for test and other data required by TRIPS Article 39.3. Through this analysis, which looks to the ordinary meaning of the provision in proper context in the same manner as would a WTO dispute settlement panel or the WTO Appellate Body, we conclude that Article 39.3 provides protection against the unjust or unfair application or conversion of certain test and other data to make a profit or to obtain a benefit. Such protection must be provided long enough to allow the originator to at least recoup …

Justice Required: Using A Preservation-Of-Court-Access Approach To Forum Non Conveniens In Five International Product-Injury Case Studies, Jeffrey A. Van Detta

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The American federal courts have used a questionable common law procedural rule to erect a virtually impenetrable barrier for those injured in other countries by products or industrial activities of U.S.-based multinationals. This barrier exists as the forum non conveniens ("FNC") rule. Section II briefly reviews the current problems that the FNC rule causes and explains its origins. In Section III, I describe my doctrinal shift away from the FNC rule to a preservation-of-court-access statute. I demonstrate in Section IV, the focus of the article, how applying that statute would change the outcome of actual product injury cases filed by …

Terrorism, Development & Trade: Winning The War On Terror Without The War, Kevin J. Fandl

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Property In The Ftaa: Little Opportunity And Much Risk, Maria Julia Olivia

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Linking Trade And Sustainable Development: Keynote Address, Emmy B. Simmons

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Remolding China's Iron Rice Bowl: An Opportunity For United States Agricultural Commodities Behind The Great Wall Of China, Joel B. Blank

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Affirming Brahimi: East Timor Makes The Case For A Model Criminal Code, Megan A. Fairlie

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Disability Rights And United States Foreign Assistance Policy - A New Framework, Einat Hurvitz

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Enforcement Of Foreign Judgements, The First Amendment, And Internet Speech: Notes For The Next Yahoo! V. Licra, Molly S. Van Houweling

Michigan Journal of International Law

The Article begins with a review of the relevant rules governing enforcement of foreign judgments in the United States. Part II explains how courts have unpersuasively applied these rules when refusing to enforce foreign libel judgments. Part III then explains how the Yahoo! court adopted much of this faulty reasoning. Finally, Part IV explains the considerations that better justify judicial refusal to enforce speech-restrictive foreign judgments, especially those triggered by Internet speech. The Article concludes that the prospect that U.S. Internet speakers will choose to speak only to a U.S. audience-even when their speech would be legal everywhere-is the most …

Prosecuting Human Rights Violations In Europe And America: How Legal System Structure Affects Compliance With International Obligations, Micah S. Myers

Michigan Journal of International Law

Will states really live up to these obligations? Are some states, and some legal systems, better equipped to do so than others? After all, it is one thing to commit to prosecuting horrendous offenses, or to recognize that there is an obligation under customary international law to do so, yet it is quite another to actually prosecute the perpetrators of such an offense; this is particularly the case when the government has a strong desire not to prosecute, because the accused are members of the government, because they are strong supporters of it, because they are foreign allies of the …