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Alternatives For Non-U.S. Attorneys In The United States, Farzad Damania
Alternatives For Non-U.S. Attorneys In The United States, Farzad Damania
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
With globalization there has been a visible growth in the international trade of legal services.
Time For A New Approach? Federalism And Foreign Affairs After "Crosby V. National Foreign Trade Council", James J. Pascoe
Time For A New Approach? Federalism And Foreign Affairs After "Crosby V. National Foreign Trade Council", James J. Pascoe
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On June 19, 2000, in Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council--a much-anticipated decision involving the intersection of federalism and foreign relations--the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law restricting state purchases from companies doing business in Burma. Crosby represents the Court's first consideration not only of local selective purchasing laws but, more importantly, its first consideration of the sort of subnational sanctions first developed by state and local governments during the anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980's. Thus, Crosby may pose an obstacle to human rights activism by local governments using economic sanctions to punish perceived human-rights offenders.
Because the …
Book Review. Cross-Border Collateral: Legal Risk And The Conflict Of Laws. Edited By Richard Potok., Hannah Buxbaum
Book Review. Cross-Border Collateral: Legal Risk And The Conflict Of Laws. Edited By Richard Potok., Hannah Buxbaum
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Sovereignty: The State, The Individual, And The International Legal System In The Twenty First Century, Ronald A. Brand
Sovereignty: The State, The Individual, And The International Legal System In The Twenty First Century, Ronald A. Brand
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This essay proposes that an understanding of original concepts of sovereignty both helps explain twentieth century developments in international law and provides a proper context for coming changes in the ways in which persons relate to states, states relate to states within the international legal system, and ultimately and most importantly-the way international law affects and applies to persons. The most important developments in international law in the new century are likely not to be in state-state relationships but rather in the status and rights of the person in international law. The twentieth century process of globalization brought us back …