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Lisbon: Pelos Frutos Conhece-Se A Arvore: Food Waste In The Lisbon: Pelos Frutos Conhece-Se A Arvore: Food Waste In The Land Of Plenty, Becky L. Jacobs Jan 2023

Lisbon: Pelos Frutos Conhece-Se A Arvore: Food Waste In The Lisbon: Pelos Frutos Conhece-Se A Arvore: Food Waste In The Land Of Plenty, Becky L. Jacobs

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I was incredibly fortunate to participate in the 2019 Study Space XII in Lisbon (SSXII), the theme of which was Living in a Tourist Destination: Regulating Planning, Housing. The theme was particularly timely and relevant. In 2019, a record 27 million visitors flooded Portugal.2 Lisbon, with an estimated population of only 517,802 as of January 2020,3 had 18.4 million tourists4 crowding its beautiful, but narrow and often steep, streets and its fabulous restaurants, bars, and cafes. The SSXII participants were among those throngs of tourists as we joined local academics, judges, and city officials and administrators who guided us around …


A Guide To Mireille Delmas-Marty's “Compass”, Diane Marie Amann Jan 2023

A Guide To Mireille Delmas-Marty's “Compass”, Diane Marie Amann

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This essay appears as the Afterword (pp. 55-64) to a volume featuring an important work by the late Mireille Delmas-Marty (1941-2022) titled A Compass of Possibilities: Global Governance and Legal Humanism. A Collège de France de Paris law professor and one of the pre-eminent legal thinkers of her generation, Delmas-Marty and the essay’s author were longtime colleagues and collaborators. The volume contains an English translation of a 2011 lecture by Delmas-Marty, originally titled “Une boussole des possibles: Gouvernance mondiale et humanismes juridiques.” Amann’s essay surveys that writing, in a manner designed to acquaint non-francophone lawyers and academics with Delmas-Marty’s …


Strengthening Labor Rights In Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Lost Opportunity?, Desiree Leclercq, Karen Curtis Jan 2023

Strengthening Labor Rights In Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Lost Opportunity?, Desiree Leclercq, Karen Curtis

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This Chapter was initially drafted during the Obama Administration. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) had been negotiated and, although it had not yet been ratified in the United States, the Administration and majority of policymakers were in favor of its implementation. Since that time, the United States Administration changed and the United States withdrew from participation in the TPP. While unfortunate, the Administration’s political decision to withdraw from the TPP does not come as a surprise; an examination of the negotiating history of those provisions illuminates a stark political divide within the United States, even prior to the change in …


A Worker-Centered Trade Policy, Desiree Leclercq Jan 2023

A Worker-Centered Trade Policy, Desiree Leclercq

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What is a “worker-centered” trade policy? The Biden administration claims that it means protecting all workers—foreign and American—from exploitative working conditions in trade sectors. The administration’s vigorous enforcement of international labor rights suggests a significant departure from previous U.S. trade priorities centered on domestic interests. For economic and humanitarian reasons, various policymakers and scholars celebrate these developments. They optimistically assume that the administration’s new trade policy will influence foreign governments and facilities to comply with international labor rights in trade if the costs of noncompliance outweigh the benefits. They also assume that the policy will influence compliance with strong labor …


Privatizing International Governance, Melissa J. Durkee Jan 2023

Privatizing International Governance, Melissa J. Durkee

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The theme of this panel is “Privatizing International Governance.” As the opening vignettes should make clear, public-private partnerships of all kinds are increasingly common in the international system. Since United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's launch of the Global Compact in 2000, the United Nations has increasingly opened up to business entities. Now, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Compact, and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights all encourage engaging with business entities as partners in developing and executing global governance agendas. These partnerships are seen by some as indispensable to sustainable development, international business regulation, climate change mitigation, …


The Pledging World Order, Melissa J. Durkee Jan 2023

The Pledging World Order, Melissa J. Durkee

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There is an emerging world order characterized by unilateral pledges within a legal or “legal-ish” architecture of commitments. The pledging world order has materialized in the international legal response to climate change and in other diverse sites. It crosses and blurs the public-private divide. It erodes distinctions between multilateralism and localism, law and not-law, and progress and stasis. It is both a symptom of and a contributor to the dismantling of the Westphalian and postwar orders. Its report card is mixed: While pledging can be highly ineffective as a legal technology, the pledging world order may respond to some legitimacy …


Industry Groups In International Governance: A Framework For Reform, Melissa J. Durkee Jan 2023

Industry Groups In International Governance: A Framework For Reform, Melissa J. Durkee

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At a time when many international organizations are focusing on bringing companies on board as partners for important goals like climate mitigation and adaptation, but even shareholders of major multinational companies are seeking to discipline pernicious lobbying by trade associations, it is important to evaluate how to maximize the benefit and restrain the harms of business participation in international governance. This article offers a brief history of engagement between international organizations and industry and trade associations, reviews arguments for embracing or restraining the participation of those groups, and develops a five-part framework for regulations to govern their access.