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State Succession And The International Financial Institutions: Political Criteria V. Protection Of Outstanding Financial Obligations, Paul Williams
State Succession And The International Financial Institutions: Political Criteria V. Protection Of Outstanding Financial Obligations, Paul Williams
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Searching For Gatt's Environmental Miranda, William Snape
Searching For Gatt's Environmental Miranda, William Snape
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INTRODUCTION: While the clairvoyant may have anticipated it earlier, the policy struggle between environmental protection and liberal trade effectively began in August 1991. That month, as has been recounted numerous times, a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) arbitral panel declared that provisions of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) were contrary to existing GATT rules. Although the panel's decision had several distinct legal elements, the crux of the dispute brought by the government of Mexico-and the basis of the panel's decision-was the U.S. executive's mandate to ban the importation of certain tuna caught by a fishing technique …