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Peer Pressure: Correlations Between Membership In Regional And Regional Economic Organizations And Wto Dispute Resolution Claims And Their Implications, Alexandra R. Harrington
Peer Pressure: Correlations Between Membership In Regional And Regional Economic Organizations And Wto Dispute Resolution Claims And Their Implications, Alexandra R. Harrington
Alexandra R. Harrington
Abstract: Peer Pressure: Correlations Between Membership in Regional and Regional Economic Organizations and WTO Dispute Resolution Claims and Their Implications. Alexandra R. Harrington, Esq. Peer pressure is a well-known phenomenon, believed responsible for everything from teenage experimentation and angst to the cliff-diving habits of lemmings. But peer pressure is less commonly thought of as a motivation for a state to act – or fail to act – in the international trade arena. The goal of this article is to explore the relationship between a state’s membership in a variety of regional and regional economic organizations and its history of bringing …
Throwing One Arm Around The World: Why The Failure Of The World Trade Organization To Include Anti-Bribery And Corruption Targets Within Its Aid For Trade Program Undermines This Program And How To Bridge These Issues., Alexandra R. Harrington
Throwing One Arm Around The World: Why The Failure Of The World Trade Organization To Include Anti-Bribery And Corruption Targets Within Its Aid For Trade Program Undermines This Program And How To Bridge These Issues., Alexandra R. Harrington
Alexandra R. Harrington
Abstract: Throwing One Arm Around the World, Alexandra R. Harrington, Esq.
In the years before he gained prominence as an activist, the singer Bono and the group U2 released a song in which it admonished: “just like all the rest, been tryin’ to throw your arms around the world.” Fourteen years after the release of this song, the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) began its “Aid for Trade” initiative, which aims to coordinate and monitor the many forms of aid given by donor states and organizations to partner states in order to bolster a variety of trade and trade-related sectors of …
Explosive Road From Dublin: The Legal Flaws In The Convention To Ban Cluster Munitions And Recommendations For Their Cure., Alexandra R. Harrington
Explosive Road From Dublin: The Legal Flaws In The Convention To Ban Cluster Munitions And Recommendations For Their Cure., Alexandra R. Harrington
Alexandra R. Harrington
In a popular Irish folk song, the hero leaves his boyhood home in the Irish country
side and takes the “rocky road to Dublin” in order to sail to a new life in a new country. However hopeful the hero is throughout his journey, when he arrives at his destination he finds that it is not as hospitable as he had expected. Despite its light-hearted beat, this song is oddly prophetic for an analysis of the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions.
In May, 2008, the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions (“Cluster Munitions Convention”) was adopted by a group of one-hundred …