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Remarks, John H. Jackson
Remarks, John H. Jackson
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The limits of international trade must be understood within the context of the institutional framework of the WTO, in particular, the decision-making and dispute settlement processes. The WTO dispute settlement rules are contained in the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), which is Annex 2 to the WTO agreement. The DSU includes some comments on the philosophy, the direction and the purposes of the dispute settlement procedures. Article 3.2 of the DSU has some very interesting phrases. One of those phrases (roughly paraphrased) says, ''None of the reports of the dispute settlement procedure should result in a change, addition, or subtraction from …
When Winning Isn’T Everything: The Lawyer As Problem Solver, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
When Winning Isn’T Everything: The Lawyer As Problem Solver, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Today I want to address the question of what the modern lawyer needs to know and what the modern lawyer must know how to do to be good at what he or she does, to be helpful to clients, to lead a fulfilling life, and hopefully, to leave the world a better place than he or she first found it. I went to law school to work on that illusive jurisprudential concept - justice. On the outside walls of the Edward Bennett Williams Library where I work in Washington, DC, is a quote, which we attribute to a former Georgetown …
Mothers And Fathers Of Invention: The Intellectual Founders Of Adr, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Mothers And Fathers Of Invention: The Intellectual Founders Of Adr, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
When we think of the "founding" of the ADR movement (particularly, but not exclusively, in law), from when do we date it? Whom do we think of as our leaders? Many of us think of Frank Sander and the "multi-door courthouse" suggested by his famous paper, delivered at the Pound Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice in 1976. For others, the publication of Roger Fisher and William Ury's "Getting to Yes," signaled an interest in a changed paradigm for engaging in legal negotiations. Some may associate ADR's nascency with early practical efforts to institutionalize …