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International Economic Conflict And Resolution, C. O'Neal Taylor
International Economic Conflict And Resolution, C. O'Neal Taylor
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
Conflict and their resolutions contribute to the development of the law. Organizations and systems are structured or restructured and policies are formulated in response to them. In the case of international economic law, conflict comes in a variety of forms and is resolved in a number of ways and in different forums.' The 2001 Conference of the International Economic Law Group focused on the issue of conflict resolution.2 The two plenary sessions of the conference were held at the Warwick Hotel in Houston. This symposium issue of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business contains three of the articles …
Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
International legal research regarding international economic dispute settlement tends to be a-theoretical. A theoretically-grounded analytic framework is employed in this article which draws from scholarship from political science, sociology, and economics regarding institutions and international governmental organizations. The knowledge-legitimacy-efficiency analytic framework is applied in this article to studies of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GA TT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement in order to relate this relevant scholarship to the economic field under primary study, Internet domain names. GA TT/WTO knowledge regarding international trade law has thickened through multi-lateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement decisions. The WTO's legitimacy is …
Turning Competition On Its Head: Economic Analysis Of The Ec's Decision To Bar The Ge-Honeywell Merger, Paul Jin
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
On July 3, 2001, the Commission of the European Communities ("Commission") rejected the proposed $45 billion merger between The General Electric Company ("GE") and Honeywell International, Inc. ("Honeywell"), which U.S. antitrust regulators had approved. Of the some 400 mergers involving U.S. companies reviewed by the Commission since 1990, only one had ever been barred. In that instance, however, U.S. authorities had also blocked the proposed transaction. Thus, the failed GE-Honeywell merger marked the first time the Commission had blocked a merger involving U.S. companies that had been approved by U.S. authorities. The Commission's move to block the GE-Honeywell merger brought …
Implications For Foreign Direct Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa Under The African Growth Opportunity Act, Rebecca Trent
Implications For Foreign Direct Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa Under The African Growth Opportunity Act, Rebecca Trent
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
In the wake of the September 11th attacks on the United States, there has been an outcry in the media over the economic, social, and political rights of individuals in less developed nations. The need to integrate developing nations into the global economy has been called for, not only for sheer humanitarian reasons, but also as a means to prevent catastrophic actions by those who feel left out when it comes to globalization. It is said that "rich countries will pay a price" if they cannot find ways to integrate developing nations into the international economy and that "security depends …