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Left Out Of The Game: Fast-Track, Non-Tariff Barriers, And The Erosion Of Federalism, William J. Kovatch Jr.

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

On January 27, 1998, an embattled President Clinton stood before the nation promoting a litany of government initiatives in his State of the Union Address.

The Wto Legal System: Sources Of Law, David Palmeter, Petros C. Mavroidis

Faculty Scholarship

Modern discussions of the sources of international law usually begin with a reference to Article 38 (1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which provides:

The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:

1. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states;
2. international custom as evidence of a general practice accepted as law;
3. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations;
4. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly …