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Regulating Foreign Commerce Through Multiple Pathways: A Case Study, Kathleen Claussen
Regulating Foreign Commerce Through Multiple Pathways: A Case Study, Kathleen Claussen
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This Essay looks at the regulation of foreign distilled spirits coming into the United States as a lens through which to understand how trade commitments become a part of U.S. law. The experience of distilled spirits in the last forty years demonstrates that trade agreements have the power to create new domestic rules, to lock in rules already on the books, and to be entirely powerless in the face of executive branch intransigence. But this story is just one illustration of competing authorities and unclear allegiances among the branches when it comes to issues of cross-border movement of goods and …
Disabling Fascism: A Struggle For The Last Laugh In Trump’S America, Madeleine M. Plasencia
Disabling Fascism: A Struggle For The Last Laugh In Trump’S America, Madeleine M. Plasencia
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Six years before the start of the Second World War and seven months after Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the German government instituted the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.” The moral depravity that started as a sterilization program targeting “useless eaters” and lives “unworthy of life” degenerated into a “euthanasia” program that murdered at least 250,000 people with mental and physical dis/abilities as an “open secret” until 1941, when the Bishop of Munster, Clemens August Count von Galen, delivered a sermon protesting the killing of “unproductive people.”2 Although the Trump Administration has not yet driven …