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The End Of The Ecsc, Benedetta Carla Angela Ubertazzi

Benedetta Carla Angela Ubertazzi

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International Criminal Court & India: Some Questions & Answers, Saumya Uma

Saumya Uma

This book was an outcome of an attempt to fill the “information gap” presently faced in making the ICC meaningful to civil society in India. It is based on questions that are frequently raised during workshops that the ICC-India campaign has conducted in various parts of the country. The contents of the book are in the form of questions and answers, and the book explains complex issues in a simple language. The publication is specially intended for Indian human rights organizations, activists and legal professionals engaged in campaigns on law and policy reform issues on human rights. This publication forms …

¿Prevalecen Los Tratados Internacionales Sobre La Constitución? Propuesta De Una Doctrina No Extremista, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

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The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement 2004 And The Copyright Term Extension. A Submission To The Senate Select Committee., Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

Petition For The Redress Of Violations Of Human Rights Guaranteed By The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Jeffrey C. Tuomala

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The Place Of Human Rights Law In World Trade Organization Rules, Stephen Joseph Powell

Stephen Joseph Powell

WTO rules routinely are linked to the inability of nations to make meaningful progress in sharpening environmental and other human rights protections, for example, the failure of the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development to usher in any new treaties despite the bright promise of the Rio Earth Summit of the previous decade. The common brief of environmental, medical, and development interest groups is that the market principles of supply and demand, comparative advantage, and non-discrimination on which global trade rules are built have encumbered pursuit by nations of fundamental non-economic objectives that must in any reasoned legal hierarchy …

Les Services D’IntéRêT GéNéRal : Une Identité EuropéEnne Du Rapport De L’ÉTat Au Marché ?, Philippe Reyniers

Philippe Reyniers

In the context of the European Constitution, this article evaluates the European law applicable to services of general interest. It also analyses the normative premises of its regime, in a comparative perspective with the structures of the national welfare state.

Parallel Imports In India, Sonia Baldia

Sonia Baldia

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The Application Of Customary International Law By National Courts: Introduction, André Nollkaemper

André Nollkaemper

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The Relationship Between Internationalized Courts And National Courts, Jann K. Kleffner, André Nollkaemper

André Nollkaemper

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The Final Balance Sheet? The International Criminal Court’S Challenges And Concessions To The Westphalian Model, Jackson N. Maogoto

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

This Article examines the organization and operating principles of the Court. Many aspects of the Rome Statute challenge fundamental tenets of the structure of international law existing heretofore. No analysis could address all the aspects of this new international institution and the Article seeks to focus attention on some of its major features impacting on State sovereignty--the focus of this Article. Part II of the Article explores the structure and competence of the Court and in particular the powers of the prosecutor, general principles underlying the jurisdiction of the Court, the formulation of the complementarity principle in the Court’s Statute, …

Running Backs, Wolves, And Other Fatalities: How Manipulations Of Coherence In Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death, Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

By examining legal cases that involve violent death and its marginalization by the courts, this essay looks into the relations between narrative coherence and narrative absurd in judicial opinions. Coherence, rather than a static, unequivocal characteristic of legal narratives, is studied here as a highly manipulable narrative and rhetorical performance. Giving a performative twist to reader-response approaches I do not really ask what is the meaning of this text (as construed by its reading)? but rather, working from the position of the text's discursive community, what does this text do? The reading of these cases explores how judicial narration and …

Curriculum Development At A New Law School: Dismantling The Walls Of Separation, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Jeffrey C. Tuomala

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Intimidated Victims & Witnesses: Treated With Hostility, Saumya Uma

Saumya Uma

This article advances the need for an Indian legal regime for protecting the interests of victims and witnesses. It draws from international standards and experiences of other countries, grounding the same in the contemporary Indian context.

Some Reflexions Concerning Jurisdiction In Cases On Cross-Border Trademark Infringements Through The Internet, Ulf Maunsbach

Ulf Maunsbach

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Etat Des Lieux Des Droits De L’Homme, Du Droit International Humanitaire Et Du Droit International Pénal Face Aux Requêtes En «Réparation» Des Grands Crimes De L’Histoire: Bilan Prospectif (In French), Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

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Barely Borders: Issues Of International Law, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

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Intervention, Self-Determination, Democracy And The Residual Responsibilities Of The Occupying Power In Iraq, Bartram Brown

Bartram Brown

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America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Direitos Humanos - Jornal O Povo, Haradja L. Torrens

Haradja L Torrens

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Preemption In The 21st Century: What Are The Legal Parameters?, Paul R. Williams, Scott Lyons, Tali Neuwirth

Paul Williams

While there has been significant political discussion as to the utility and/or risks associated with the doctrine of preemption, the legal debate has to date been fairly limited. Few if any have sought to define the legal parameters of the doctrine. The purpose of this article is to help define the appropriate legal parameters for use of the doctrine. This article will first review the strategic rationale for preemption, and a detailed definition of the modern doctrine. This will be followed by a review of the United States’ government’s legal rationale and a review of the emerging legal debate before …

Earned Sovereignty: An Emerging Conflict Resolution Approach, Paul R. Williams, Karen Heymann

Paul Williams

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Establishing A Stable Democratic Constitutional Structure In Iraq: Some Basic Considerations, Paul Williams

Paul Williams

As the situation in Iraq continues to stabilize, the people of Iraq will turn to the task of reconstituting an Iraqi state. One of the first steps in this process will be to design, agree upon, and implement a new constitutional structure. While drafting a new constitution is a difficult and contentious process for any country, the challenges are substantially magnified for Iraq given its complex mosaic of ethnic and religious identities, the history of repression under Saddam Hussein, the necessary presence of American forces, and Iraq’s complex relations with its neighboring states. The overriding tension faced by the drafters …

The Idea Of Equality And Affirmative Actions, Paulo Barrozo

Paulo Barrozo

The article starts out from a concise reconstruction of the republican and the democratic ideals in the context of the modern expansion on emancipatory ideals and programs so as to produce an understanding of the principle of equality in light of them. It then seeks to develop the rudiments of a constitutional theory of equality consistent with the emancipatory ideals from which it derives its most robust meaning. In its last segment the article examines the question of "affirmative action" in the access to higher education within the scope of the proposed basis for a theory of equality.

The Political Economy Of The Production Of Customary International Law: The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Increasingly, United States courts are recognizing various treaties, as well as declarations, proclamations, conventions, resolutions, programmes, protocols, and similar forms of inter- or multi-national “legislation” as evidence of a body of “customary international law” enforceable in domestic courts, particularly in the area of tort liability. These “legislative” documents, which this Article refers to as customary international law outputs, are seen by some courts as evidence of jus cogens norms that bind not only nations and state actors, but also private individuals. The most obvious evidence of this trend is in the proliferation of lawsuits against corporations with ties to the …