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Renegotiate The Wto Schedules Of Commitments: Technological Development And Treaty Interpretation, Shin-Yi Peng
Renegotiate The Wto Schedules Of Commitments: Technological Development And Treaty Interpretation, Shin-Yi Peng
Cornell International Law Journal
The interpretation of schedules has been the subject of several Panel and Appellate Body reports in recent years, and it is anticipated that challenges to schedules related to information and communication technologies before the dispute settlement body will increase. The recent decisions of the Panel and the Appellate Body in EC-IT Products and China-Audiovisual Services may become significant leading cases on the issues of how to interpret "schedules of commitments" in this rapidly changing digital era. I conclude in this article that the Panel appropriately recognized in EC-IT Products that the Information Technology Agreement is not relevant in determining the …
Trappings Of Legality: Judicialization Of Dispute Settlement In The Wto, And Its Impact On Developing Countries, Timothy Stostad
Trappings Of Legality: Judicialization Of Dispute Settlement In The Wto, And Its Impact On Developing Countries, Timothy Stostad
Cornell International Law Journal
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Non-Governmental Organizations And The International Criminal Court: Changing Landscapes Of International Law, Zoe Pearson
Non-Governmental Organizations And The International Criminal Court: Changing Landscapes Of International Law, Zoe Pearson
Cornell International Law Journal
An exploration of claims that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influence the formation of international law focuses on NGO participation in the multilateral negotiations to form the International Criminal Court. It is shown that, although NGO's can contribute to international lawmaking processes, their participation remains ad hoc, contingent, & characterized by conflicting viewpoints. However, existing international lawmaking is attempting to accommodate the diversity of global civil society actors even though deeply entrenched traditional constructions of international law tend to limit their involvement. Adapted from the source document.
Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences, in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters of form, as distinct from questions of “meaning,” in the negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides a heuristic device for exploring questions of pattern and scale in the aesthetics of negotiation.
Classwide Arbitration And 10b-5 Claims In The Wake Of Shearson/American Express Inc. V. Mcmahon , Daniel R. Waltcher
Classwide Arbitration And 10b-5 Claims In The Wake Of Shearson/American Express Inc. V. Mcmahon , Daniel R. Waltcher
Cornell Law Review
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