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Towards A Development-Oriented Multilateral Framework On Competition Policy, Jae Sung Lee
Towards A Development-Oriented Multilateral Framework On Competition Policy, Jae Sung Lee
San Diego International Law Journal
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) is a successful attempt by the international community to codify and unify the law of the sea. After long negotiations, the LOSC opened for signature at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) in 1982. Together with its two formal associations, the Part XI Implementation Agreement 1994 and the Straddling and Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement 1995, it is regarded as one of the most comprehensive documents ever adopted by the international community. The LOSC not only succeeded in addressing all topics covered …
The New Politics Of Linkage: India's Opposition To The Worker's Rights Clause, Kevin Kolben
The New Politics Of Linkage: India's Opposition To The Worker's Rights Clause, Kevin Kolben
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article examines why India has opposed a World Trade Organization (WTO) workers' rights clause, and calls for a new way of thinking about international institutions and the link between trade and labor rights. Many labor rights supporters argue that labor rights principles should be integrated into the WTO, either via the addition of a workers' rights clause or through a 'judicial" reading of labor rights values into the existing WTO framework. But India has led a large block of developing countries in opposing any link between labor rights and the WTO. This opposition has been based primarily on economic …