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International Financial Institutions Face The Corruption Eruption: If The Ifis Put Their Muscle And Money Where Their Mouth Is, The Corruption Eruption May Be Capped, James P. Jr. Wesberry Jan 1997

International Financial Institutions Face The Corruption Eruption: If The Ifis Put Their Muscle And Money Where Their Mouth Is, The Corruption Eruption May Be Capped, James P. Jr. Wesberry

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article addresses what IFIs are doing, are not doing, and hopefully might do to help cap the corruption eruption sweeping our world. The article primarily relates the efforts of the World Bank in this area and briefly discusses efforts by other major IFIs.


The Development Of Compliance Programs: One Company's Experience, Patrick J. Head Jan 1997

The Development Of Compliance Programs: One Company's Experience, Patrick J. Head

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Though the FCPA is only a small portion of the coverage of corporate compliance programs, this perspective will focus on the FCPA and, to a certain extent, on other collateral impact statutes, such as securities and in- ternal revenue laws. It will not delve into related statutes, such as the over- seas reach of antitrust laws.


The Utility Of International Law For Protecting Women's Health Rights, Vanessa Merton Jan 1997

The Utility Of International Law For Protecting Women's Health Rights, Vanessa Merton

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

There is one area, however, where international law seems to hold promise; certain cultural practices that pose special, direct threats to the lives and health of women (although male infants and children often share women's vulnerability in this regard). I have in mind sexual slavery, coercive prostitution and pornographic exploitation, rape, compulsory marriage, coerced impregnation and its converse, coerced abortion and sterilization; spousal abuse, dowry deaths and coerced suicide, female infanticide and sex-specific abortion. All of these practices are the product not of microbes, poor hygiene, or a lack of health care, but of deliberate human behavior. All these practices …


Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Service Equals "Good Moral Character"?: United States V. Lindert, K. Lesli Ligomer Jan 1997

Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Service Equals "Good Moral Character"?: United States V. Lindert, K. Lesli Ligomer

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Response To John Quigley, Louis René Beres Jan 1997

Response To John Quigley, Louis René Beres

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


International Legal Education In The United States: Being Educated For Domestic Practice While Living In A Global Society, John A. Barrett Jr. Jan 1997

International Legal Education In The United States: Being Educated For Domestic Practice While Living In A Global Society, John A. Barrett Jr.

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Developing Countries And The Framework For Negotiations On Foreign Direct Investment In The World Trade Organization, Eric M. Burt Jan 1997

Developing Countries And The Framework For Negotiations On Foreign Direct Investment In The World Trade Organization, Eric M. Burt

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unilateral Sanctions With A Twist: The Iran And Libya Sanctions Act Of 1996, Meghan Mccurdy Jan 1997

Unilateral Sanctions With A Twist: The Iran And Libya Sanctions Act Of 1996, Meghan Mccurdy

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


A New Take On Antiterrorism: Smith V. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamabiriya, Leslie Mckay Jan 1997

A New Take On Antiterrorism: Smith V. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamabiriya, Leslie Mckay

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Islam, Law And Custom: Redefining Muslim Women's Rights, Azizah Al-Hibri Jan 1997

Islam, Law And Custom: Redefining Muslim Women's Rights, Azizah Al-Hibri

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reasonable Doubt: How In The World Is It Defined?, Thomas V. Mulrine Jan 1997

Reasonable Doubt: How In The World Is It Defined?, Thomas V. Mulrine

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why The Oslo Accords Should Be Abrogated By Israel, Louis René Beres Jan 1997

Why The Oslo Accords Should Be Abrogated By Israel, Louis René Beres

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Oslo Accords: More Than Israel Deserves, John Quigley Jan 1997

The Oslo Accords: More Than Israel Deserves, John Quigley

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Proposed Brazilian Money Laundering Legislation: Analysis And Recommendations, Paulina L. Jerez Jan 1997

Proposed Brazilian Money Laundering Legislation: Analysis And Recommendations, Paulina L. Jerez

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mexico-United States Extradition And Alternatives: From Fugitive Slaves To Drug Traffickers - 150 Years And Beyond The Rio Grande's Winding Courses, Bruce Zagaris, Julia Padierna Peratta Jan 1997

Mexico-United States Extradition And Alternatives: From Fugitive Slaves To Drug Traffickers - 150 Years And Beyond The Rio Grande's Winding Courses, Bruce Zagaris, Julia Padierna Peratta

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Between Diversity And Disorder: A Review Of Jorri C. Duursma, Fragmentation And The International Relations Of Micro-States: Self-Determination And Statehood, Thomas D. Grant Jan 1997

Between Diversity And Disorder: A Review Of Jorri C. Duursma, Fragmentation And The International Relations Of Micro-States: Self-Determination And Statehood, Thomas D. Grant

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Genetic Testing And Germ-Line Manipulation: Constructing A New Language For International Human Rights, Maha F. Munayyer Jan 1997

Genetic Testing And Germ-Line Manipulation: Constructing A New Language For International Human Rights, Maha F. Munayyer

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Grant V. South-West Trains: Equality For Same-Sex Partners In The European Community, Paul L. Spackman Jan 1997

Grant V. South-West Trains: Equality For Same-Sex Partners In The European Community, Paul L. Spackman

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property As A Natural Institution: The Separation Of Property From Sovereignty In International Law, L. Benjamin Ederington Jan 1997

Property As A Natural Institution: The Separation Of Property From Sovereignty In International Law, L. Benjamin Ederington

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tempeting A Chill On Skittish Capital Markets: Illiquid Investments Investments In The Wake Of Global Volatility, Christopher J. Mailander Jan 1997

Tempeting A Chill On Skittish Capital Markets: Illiquid Investments Investments In The Wake Of Global Volatility, Christopher J. Mailander

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Swapping Amnesty For Peace And The Duty To Prosecute Human Rights Crimes, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1997

Swapping Amnesty For Peace And The Duty To Prosecute Human Rights Crimes, Diane Orentlicher

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.


Circumnavigating International Space Law, Ty Twibell Dec 1996

Circumnavigating International Space Law, Ty Twibell

Ty Twibell



Space industrial development has many difficulties; however, many of the difficulties are legal obstacles. The author has asserted that international space law presently hinders the commercial development of outer space, and thus, requires legal change. Vigorous space commercial development is crucial, however, not for intellectual development alone. It offers massive economic, medical, industrial, and humanitarian rewards. Better vaccines and antibiotics can be produced in space in far greater quantities than on earth. Mining the moons, asteroids, and comets provides answers to future energy depletion and would provide enormously less expensive construction of spacecraft and colonies than launching from Earth. Apace …