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The Problems With Scorecards: How (And How Not) To Measure The Cost-Effectiveness Of Economic Sanctions, Richard W. Parker
The Problems With Scorecards: How (And How Not) To Measure The Cost-Effectiveness Of Economic Sanctions, Richard W. Parker
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article looks "beneath the bridge" of sanctions law and policy to investigate these foundational questions. Part I will look briefly behind the currently prevailing estimate for the direct economic cost of high foreign policy export sanctions for the U.S. economy. It will demonstrate that the most widely reported aggregate cost estimate of $15-20 billion per year and 200,000 U.S. jobs lost is unsubstantiated. Moreover, the evidence is clear that environmental trade sanctions, i.e., import restrictions deployed for environmental purposes, have cost U.S. companies and workers virtually nothing. Trade sanctions may impose very significant costs on individual companies, and these …
Mrs. Watu: Seven Steps To Trade Sanctions Analysis, Raj Bhala
Mrs. Watu: Seven Steps To Trade Sanctions Analysis, Raj Bhala
Michigan Journal of International Law
An earlier version of this article was published as MRS. WATU and International Trade Sanctions, 33 INT'L LAW Spring 1999. The first draft of this article was presented in Washington, D.C. on 14 May 1998 at The Department of Commerce-George Washington University Third Annual Institute on International Trade and Investment.
U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Second Wave, Kenneth J. Vandevelde
U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Second Wave, Kenneth J. Vandevelde
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article describes and appraises the second wave of negotiations. It functions as a sequel to an earlier article that described the first ten years of the program. Although the second wave of negotiations continues, and thus any conclusions about it necessarily are tentative, the second wave already has developed a variety of characteristics that distinguish it from the first wave. The goal of this Article is to identify the ways in which the second wave appears to differ from the first and to assess the significance of the differences.
Developing A Standard For Politically Related State Economic Action, Clinton E. Cameron
Developing A Standard For Politically Related State Economic Action, Clinton E. Cameron
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Note will give an analysis of the scholarship that has appeared in this field, as well as the actual practice of States, to determine if any fixed rules have been established in this area, and if so, what they are. It will do so by looking at the debates that have taken place concerning the application of the language and underlying principles of the U.N. Charter in order to see if these norms of State action prohibit economic diplomacy. The Note will then look to the actual practice of States to determine whether it provides adequate evidence of opinion …
Extraterritorial Application Of The Export Administration Act Of 1979 Under International And American Law, Michigan Law Review
Extraterritorial Application Of The Export Administration Act Of 1979 Under International And American Law, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note investigates the legality of the extraterritorial application of the EAA under American and international law, with a particular focus on the presidential action in the Soviet Oil and Gas Equipment Export Controls case (hereinafter the Soviet Pipeline case). Part I examines the language and legislative history of the EAA and concludes that Congress clearly and affirmatively expressed its intention to apply export controls to foreign subsidiaries of American corporations as well as goods and technology that originate in the United States. Part II analyzes the extraterritorial application of the EAA under the generally recognized principles of international law. …
Dumping: Confronting The Paradox Of Internal Weakness And External Challenge, Bart S. Fisher
Dumping: Confronting The Paradox Of Internal Weakness And External Challenge, Bart S. Fisher
Michigan Journal of International Law
Unfortunately, dumping today poses serious foreign policy problems for the United States, particularly with respect to many other advanced industrial states. Dumping is but one of a series of major economic issues faced by the United States today in the international arena, however, and its importance should not be emotionalized or overstated.