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Regime Shifting Of Ip Law Making And Enforcement From The Wto To The International Investment Regime, James T. Gathii, Cynthia M. Ho Jul 2019

Regime Shifting Of Ip Law Making And Enforcement From The Wto To The International Investment Regime, James T. Gathii, Cynthia M. Ho

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Henry J. Richardson Iii: The Father Of Black Traditions Of International Law, James T. Gathii Jul 2019

Henry J. Richardson Iii: The Father Of Black Traditions Of International Law, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Backlash Against International Courts In West, East And Southern Africa: Causes And Consequences, Karen J. Alter, James T. Gathii, Laurence R. Helfer Jun 2019

Backlash Against International Courts In West, East And Southern Africa: Causes And Consequences, Karen J. Alter, James T. Gathii, Laurence R. Helfer

James T Gathii

This paper discusses three credible attempts by African governments to restrict the jurisdiction of three similarly-situated sub-regional courts in response to politically controversial rulings. In West Africa, when the ECOWAS Court upheld allegations of torture by opposition journalists in the Gambia, that country’s political leaders sought to restrict the Court’s power to review human rights complaints. The other member states ultimately defeated the Gambia’s proposal. In East Africa, Kenya failed in its efforts to eliminate the EACJ and to remove some of its judges after a decision challenging an election to a sub-regional legislature. However, the member states agreed to …


The Variation In The Use Of Sub-Regional Integration Courts Between Business And Human Rights Actors: The Case Of The East African Court Of Justice, James T. Gathii Jun 2019

The Variation In The Use Of Sub-Regional Integration Courts Between Business And Human Rights Actors: The Case Of The East African Court Of Justice, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Strength In Intellectual Property Protection And Foreign Direct Investment Flows In Least Developed Countries, James T. Gathii Jun 2019

Strength In Intellectual Property Protection And Foreign Direct Investment Flows In Least Developed Countries, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Saving The Serengeti: Africa's New International Judicial Environmentalism, James T. Gathii Jun 2019

Saving The Serengeti: Africa's New International Judicial Environmentalism, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

This Article analyzes recent environmental law decisions of Africa's fledgling international courts. In 2014, for example, the East African Court of Justice stopped the government of Tanzania from building a road across Serengeti National Park because of its potential adverse environmental impacts. Decisions like these have inaugurated a new era of enhanced environmental judicial protection in Africa. This expansion into environmental law decision-making by Africa's international trade courts contrasts with other international courts that are designed to specialize on one issue area such as human rights or international trade, but not both. By contrast, Africa's international courts are simultaneously pushing …


Incorporating The Third Party Beneficiary Principle In Natural Resource Contracts, James T. Gathii Sep 2015

Incorporating The Third Party Beneficiary Principle In Natural Resource Contracts, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Mission Creep Or A Search For Relevance: The East African Court Of Justice’S Human Rights Strategy, James Gathii Nov 2014

Mission Creep Or A Search For Relevance: The East African Court Of Justice’S Human Rights Strategy, James Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Representations Of Africa In Good Governance Discourse: Policing And Containing Dissidence To Neo-Liberalism,, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Representations Of Africa In Good Governance Discourse: Policing And Containing Dissidence To Neo-Liberalism,, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Structural Power Of Strong Pharmaceutical Patent Protection In U.S. Foreign Policy, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Structural Power Of Strong Pharmaceutical Patent Protection In U.S. Foreign Policy, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Insulating Domestic Policy Through International Legal Minimalism: A Re-Characterization Of The Foreign Affairs Trade Doctrine, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Insulating Domestic Policy Through International Legal Minimalism: A Re-Characterization Of The Foreign Affairs Trade Doctrine, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Foreign And Other Economic Rights Upon Conquest And Under Occupation: Iraq In Comparative And Historical Context, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Foreign And Other Economic Rights Upon Conquest And Under Occupation: Iraq In Comparative And Historical Context, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


War’S Legacy In International Investment Law, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

War’S Legacy In International Investment Law, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


African Regional Trade Agreements As Flexible Legal Regimes, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

African Regional Trade Agreements As Flexible Legal Regimes, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Failing Failed States: A Response To John Yoo, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Failing Failed States: A Response To John Yoo, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Financial Action Task Force And Global Administrative Law, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Financial Action Task Force And Global Administrative Law, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


A Critical Appraisal Of The International Legal Tradition Of Taslim Olawale Elias, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

A Critical Appraisal Of The International Legal Tradition Of Taslim Olawale Elias, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Under-Appreciated Jurisprudence Of African Regional Trade Judiciaries, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Under-Appreciated Jurisprudence Of African Regional Trade Judiciaries, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, And Asteroids: Are We Ready For The Next 100 Years?, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, And Asteroids: Are We Ready For The Next 100 Years?, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Sanctity Of Sovereign Loan Contracts And Its Origins In Enforcement Litigation, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Sanctity Of Sovereign Loan Contracts And Its Origins In Enforcement Litigation, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Consumer And Pharmaceutical Dimensions Of Addressing Bio-Terrorism: An Analysis Of In Re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Consumer And Pharmaceutical Dimensions Of Addressing Bio-Terrorism: An Analysis Of In Re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Kenya’S Long Anti-Corruption Agenda: 1952-2010: Prospects And Challenges Of The Ethics And Anti-Corruption Commission Under The 2010 Constitution, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Kenya’S Long Anti-Corruption Agenda: 1952-2010: Prospects And Challenges Of The Ethics And Anti-Corruption Commission Under The 2010 Constitution, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Force, Freedom Of Commerce, And Double Standards In Prosecuting Pirates In Kenya, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

The Use Of Force, Freedom Of Commerce, And Double Standards In Prosecuting Pirates In Kenya, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Assessing Claims Of A New Doctrine Of Pre-Emptive War Under The Doctrine Of Sources, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Assessing Claims Of A New Doctrine Of Pre-Emptive War Under The Doctrine Of Sources, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Commerce, Conquest, And Wartime Confiscation, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Commerce, Conquest, And Wartime Confiscation, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Process And Substance In Wto Reform, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Process And Substance In Wto Reform, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


How Necessity May Preclude State Responsibility For Compulsory Licensing Under The Trips Agreement, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

How Necessity May Preclude State Responsibility For Compulsory Licensing Under The Trips Agreement, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Foreign Precedents In The Federal Judiciary: The Case Of The World Trade Organization’S Dsb Decisions, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Foreign Precedents In The Federal Judiciary: The Case Of The World Trade Organization’S Dsb Decisions, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


How American Support For Freedom Of Commerce Legitimized King Leopold’S Territorial Ambitions In The Congo, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

How American Support For Freedom Of Commerce Legitimized King Leopold’S Territorial Ambitions In The Congo, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.


Kenya’S Piracy Prosecutions, James T. Gathii Jun 2013

Kenya’S Piracy Prosecutions, James T. Gathii

James T Gathii

No abstract provided.