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Globalization In Financial Services - What Role For Gats?, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Globalization In Financial Services - What Role For Gats?, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


The Dynamic Of Institutional Discrepancies And Growing Contradiction Within The International Economic Order, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

The Dynamic Of Institutional Discrepancies And Growing Contradiction Within The International Economic Order, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Developing Countries And Multilateral Trade Agreements: Law And The Promise Of Development, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Developing Countries And Multilateral Trade Agreements: Law And The Promise Of Development, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Comparing The "1990s-Style" And "1980s-Style" Debt Crises, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Comparing The "1990s-Style" And "1980s-Style" Debt Crises, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Challenges For Democracy And Trade: The Case Of The United States, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Challenges For Democracy And Trade: The Case Of The United States, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

Predominant political theory holds that legislators are protectionist regarding international trade because susceptibility to minority interest groups leads them to vote in ways that protect domestic industries at the expense of free trade. Because free trade is widely regarded as beneficial to the majority, the protectionist tendency of the legislature is believed to be a disservice to most Americans. These two theories have led to policies that restrict the role of the legislature in the formulation of trade policy, specifically, the creation of the fast track framework for trade policy legislation that exists today. This Essay challenges these two theories, …


Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Globalization And The Border: Trade, Labor, Migration, And Agricultural Production In Mexico, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Globalization And The Border: Trade, Labor, Migration, And Agricultural Production In Mexico, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

The debate over immigration policy in the United States has reached a crescendo in recent years, with particular concern over illegal workers and their impact on social well-being in this country. Yet in the prevailing analysis of this issue, the relationship between immigration and contemporary international trade policy is often overlooked. In particular, few commentators recognize or understand that a significant part of the surge in illegal labor from Mexico--the source of the majority of undocumented workers in the United States—stems from reforms that Mexico undertook in cooperation with the United States to liberalize trade flows across the Mexico-United States …


Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Disciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, And The Case Of Narcotics, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Disciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, And The Case Of Narcotics, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Globalization And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Globalization And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.