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Importing Western Style, Exporting Tragedy: Changes In Indian Patent Law And Their Impact On Aids Treatment In Africa, Pooja Van Dyck
Importing Western Style, Exporting Tragedy: Changes In Indian Patent Law And Their Impact On Aids Treatment In Africa, Pooja Van Dyck
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
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Bilateral Investment Treaties And The Possibility Of A Multilateral Framework On Investment At The Wto: Are Poor Economies Caught In Between, Victor Mosoti
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The increased Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") flows in the past few years have strengthened the belief among many developing countries, especially African countries, that such FDI flows could help in reducing the resource, technology and foreign exchange gaps that constrain their economic development. As a result, many developing countries have beendiligently working to attract foreign investment, for which these countries give some of the highest returns; in the process, these countries make concessions that they would have found unthinkable in the past, when autarchic economic policies were prevalent. For example, due to the liberalization of capital accounts, a foreign investor …
African Private Security Companies And The Alien Tort Claims Act: Could Multinational Oil And Mining Companies Be Liable?, Jennifer L. Heil
African Private Security Companies And The Alien Tort Claims Act: Could Multinational Oil And Mining Companies Be Liable?, Jennifer L. Heil
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This paper focuses specifically on the possible liability under the ATCA of multinational oil and mining companies operating in Africa. First, it will examine the relationships between the multinational oil and mining companies, private security forces and African governments. In doing so, it will describe the actual activities and operations of the private security forces in conjunction with the oil and mining corhpanies. Second, this paper will outline the elements of liability under the ATCA. This will include a discussion of recent cases in which foreign nationals have sued multinational companies in the United States for alleged human rights abuses …
Title V Of The 2nd Lome Convention Between Eec And Acp States: A Critical Assessment Of The Industrial Cooperation As It Relates To Africa, Ndiva Kofele-Kale
Title V Of The 2nd Lome Convention Between Eec And Acp States: A Critical Assessment Of The Industrial Cooperation As It Relates To Africa, Ndiva Kofele-Kale
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
On October 31, 1979, representatives from fifty-eight African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) and nine European Economic Community (EEC) States signed the second Lome Convetion. This agreement will govern the technical, commercial, and financial relations between the two groups of countries from March 1, 1980 through February 28, 1985. Lome II is the fifth in a series of conventions concluded between the EEC countries and the developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Like its predecessors, Lome II was designed to "establish a model for relations between developed and developing states," and lay the foundation for a "New International Economic Order." Toward …