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What Is In Your Tampon? Increasing Transparency In Menstrual Products, Elianna Spitzer Jan 2024

What Is In Your Tampon? Increasing Transparency In Menstrual Products, Elianna Spitzer

Seattle University Law Review

The average person who menstruates will bleed for an average of five days, every twenty-four to thirty-eight days, over several decades and could use thousands of disposable menstrual products in their lifetime. Menstrual products line retail shelves. They can be found in homes, bags, and bodies—but until 2021, manufacturers were not required to disclose the ingredients used to make these products to consumers at all. In fact, they still are not federally required to disclose menstrual product ingredients on product packaging. Instead, in recent years, changes to menstrual product labels have largely been the result of state legislation. In 2019, …


Punishment After The Punishment: How Deportation Of Juvenile Offenders Violates The Eighth Amendment And International Law, Elisabeth Sethi Jan 2024

Punishment After The Punishment: How Deportation Of Juvenile Offenders Violates The Eighth Amendment And International Law, Elisabeth Sethi

Lewis & Clark Law Review

This Comment examines how the United States deviates from most of the Western world by allowing deportation of noncitizen juvenile offenders to be essentially mandatory for a wide number of crimes. Deportation is “mandatory” in the sense that it is often an automatic result with very few options for judges to consider relevant mitigating factors, such as how long the noncitizen has lived in the United States, ties to U.S. citizen family members, or behavior since committing the crime. Deportation of juvenile offenders is applied harshly to both authorized and unauthorized noncitizens, many of whom have lived in the United …


Ukraine, Moral Outrage, And International Law, Heidi Gilchrist Jan 2024

Ukraine, Moral Outrage, And International Law, Heidi Gilchrist

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Is The Women's Treaty A Paper Tiger? Indian Courts' Application Of The United Nations Treaty, Amanda L. Stephens Jan 2024

Is The Women's Treaty A Paper Tiger? Indian Courts' Application Of The United Nations Treaty, Amanda L. Stephens

Faculty Articles

This Article examines whether the United Nations ("U.N.") Treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW'), is a "paper tiger"-a law that seems powerful but is in fact weak and ineffectual. While some scholars question the Treaty's effectiveness based on statistical studies, others point to legal reforms in state parties as evidence of its success. Neither provides a nuanced middle ground by examining the CEDAW at a micro rather than a macro level. This Article fills this gap by conducting a qualitative analysis of 10 Indian judicial opinions. Specifically, the Article explores how the …


'A Very Murky Process': Embracing The Intermediacy Of International Justice And Human Rights, Richard Ashby Wilson Jan 2024

'A Very Murky Process': Embracing The Intermediacy Of International Justice And Human Rights, Richard Ashby Wilson

Faculty Articles and Papers

Wilson, Richard Ashby. 2024. “’A Very Murky Process:’ Embracing the Indeterminacy of International Justice and Human Rights.” In Philip Alston, ed., The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing.


The Exceptional Unfairness Of The “Exceptional And Extremely Unusual Hardship” Test, Bin Mohsin, Momin Jan 2024

The Exceptional Unfairness Of The “Exceptional And Extremely Unusual Hardship” Test, Bin Mohsin, Momin

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

Legislators often face criticism for introducing ambiguous terms into law. The "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" (EEUH) standard in U.S. immigration law is one such prominent example. Delving into a historical analysis, the article tracks the evolution of the EEUH standard from its incorporation in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to its current applications. Through a comprehensive survey across different jurisdictions such as the UK, Canada, and Australia, the paper exposes the inadequacies of the EEUH standard, emphasizing its obsolescence. Advocating for a paradigmatic reassessment, it proposes the replacement of the EEUH standard with the “best interest of …


Jurisdictional Choice For Space Resource Utilization Projects: Current Space Resource Utilization Laws, Giannoni-Crystal, Francesca Jan 2024

Jurisdictional Choice For Space Resource Utilization Projects: Current Space Resource Utilization Laws, Giannoni-Crystal, Francesca

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

Space resource utilization is coming. While some legal impediments exist, they are not insurmountable. The ban on the appropriation of resources found in Article II of the Outer Space Treaty (“OST”) does not apply to extracted resources, according to the most reasonable interpretation of Article II and the view held by almost all countries and the overwhelming majority of scholars. The Moon Agreement is not a barrier to space resource utilization because it has not been adopted by many countries (and none of the major space-faring ones). By contrast, the Artemis Accords, which have been signed by a significant number …


The Relationship Between International Criminal Tribunals And National Militaries, Frank Rosenblatt Jan 2024

The Relationship Between International Criminal Tribunals And National Militaries, Frank Rosenblatt

Journal Articles

This article studies the possibilities and perils of international criminal tribunals collaborating with national military forces to support the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. It does so through a case study of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2002, where a multinational military peacekeeping coalition called Stabilisation Force (SFOR) headquartered in Sarajevo supported the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Through that case study, the article extracts larger lessons potentially applicable to other post-conflict scenarios involving both military forces and international courts. Some ways that militaries and tribunals can work together are familiar, such as …


Do Ndcs Submitted By The Parties Under The Paris Agreement Imply Binding Commitments? A Legal Analysis, Sharaban Tahura Zaman Jan 2024

Do Ndcs Submitted By The Parties Under The Paris Agreement Imply Binding Commitments? A Legal Analysis, Sharaban Tahura Zaman

American University International Law Review

NDCs submitted by State Parties under the PA genuinely do not represent commitments and intentions from the author State to be legally bound by the pledges they’ve communicated within their submitted NDCs. While NDCs reflect the political will and aspirations of nations, tied to their socio-economic realities, they lack concrete, enforceable domestic mitigation standards. This dilemma poses pressing questions: If NDCs are primarily political declarations and domestic courts don’t hold states accountable for their submitted mitigation targets, how can we ensure states fulfill their pledges for mitigation? Can NDCs genuinely drive state behavioral change for energy transition? Furthermore, there is …


Sticker Shock: The Icj, Russia, And A $300 Billion Price Tag For War, Caitlyn Quinn Jan 2024

Sticker Shock: The Icj, Russia, And A $300 Billion Price Tag For War, Caitlyn Quinn

American University National Security Law Brief

Ukraine has experienced unprecedented devastation since Russia launched a full scale invasion into its Eastern territory in February 2022. Thousands have been killed, and billions of dollars of infrastructure has been damaged. As a result, over the past three years, the international community has been evaluating ways to hold Russia accountable and to help rebuild Ukraine upon the cessation of the war. Billions of dollars in Russian Central Bank assets have been frozen, and multiple states have proposed seizing Russia’s frozen assets to meet these objectives. However, outright asset seizure presents genuine legal concerns about foreign sovereign immunity and may …


The Eu-China Cai And The Uyghur Challenge In The Context Of China's Domestic Law Barriers To International Labor And Human Rights Standards, Ronald C. Brown Jan 2024

The Eu-China Cai And The Uyghur Challenge In The Context Of China's Domestic Law Barriers To International Labor And Human Rights Standards, Ronald C. Brown

American University Business Law Review

While China engages in world commerce as a global player and is signatory to international labor and human rights standards, at the same time it uses treaty reservations and its own domestic laws to limit and undermine the full application of those standards. Concern from Western governments and global human rights groups regarding China’s longstanding treatment of the Uyghur people has resulted in a freeze in negotiations for the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI). This was also a result of China’s failure to ratify or implement relevant United Nations (U.N.) covenants and International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and placing reservations …


Too Much Domestic Law In International Arbitration: The Case Of Arbitral Res Judicata, Luca G. Radicati Di Brozolo Jan 2024

Too Much Domestic Law In International Arbitration: The Case Of Arbitral Res Judicata, Luca G. Radicati Di Brozolo

American University Business Law Review

This paper is the text of the 19th Annual Lecture on International Arbitration given by the author at the Center on International Commercial Arbitration of the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. on October 19, 2023.


The Elusive Reform Of International Tax Dispute Settlement, Yariv Brauner Jan 2024

The Elusive Reform Of International Tax Dispute Settlement, Yariv Brauner

UF Law Faculty Publications

This short article examines the consequences of a lack of an effective international tax dispute resolution regime. The bilateral treaties based, and OECD-dominated international tax regime is at crossroads as the illegitimacy of the OECD and the anachronism of some of the norms of the regime are being exposed and challenged, especially by developing states and the UN. The weak dispute settlement procedure in tax treaties (mutual agreement procedure) has proven to be ineffective, further contributing to the destabilization of the regime. The article argues that a stronger, multilateral and more legalized regime such as mandatory tax treaty arbitration is …


Private Climate Governance Of Finance: "Net Zero" Prospects And Politics., Cynthia A. Williams Jan 2024

Private Climate Governance Of Finance: "Net Zero" Prospects And Politics., Cynthia A. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In 2021, as part of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (“GFANZ”) was announced. This Alliance of banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, among other financial institutions, with more than $130 trillion of assets under management when announced, was based on a pledge by the participating companies to work towards net-zero status in their businesses by 2050 or sooner. Led by former UK Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who is now the U.N.’s Special Envoy on Climate, it seemed to have some promise as a “soft law” governance mechanism to develop voluntary …


Exiting The Disaster, Evading The Responsibility? Wadi Al-Qamar -- The Moon Valley, Suzan Nada Jan 2024

Exiting The Disaster, Evading The Responsibility? Wadi Al-Qamar -- The Moon Valley, Suzan Nada

Perspectives

This essay explores a case that delivered no results for the complainants, where harm was not prevented, and where stakeholders who filed the complaint were not compensated. Investigated by the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Wadi al-Qamar case illustrates some of the limitations of accountability mechanisms in limiting the harms caused directly or indirectly by projects in which the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) invest.


Shareholder Primacy Versus Shareholder Accountability, William W. Bratton Jan 2024

Shareholder Primacy Versus Shareholder Accountability, William W. Bratton

Seattle University Law Review

When corporations inflict injuries in the course of business, shareholders wielding environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) principles can, and now sometimes do, intervene to correct the matter. In the emerging fact pattern, corporate social accountability expands out of its historic collectivized frame to become an internal subject matter—a corporate governance topic. As a result, shareholder accountability surfaces as a policy question for the first time. The Big Three index fund managers, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, responded to the accountability question with ESG activism. In so doing, they defected against corporate legal theory’s central tenet, shareholder primacy. Shareholder primacy builds …


Verses Turned To Verdicts: Ysl Rico Case Sets A High-Watermark For The Legal Pseudo-Censorship Of Rap Music, Nabil Yousfi Jan 2024

Verses Turned To Verdicts: Ysl Rico Case Sets A High-Watermark For The Legal Pseudo-Censorship Of Rap Music, Nabil Yousfi

Seattle University Law Review

Whichever way you spin the record, rap music and courtrooms don’t mix. On one side, rap records are well known for their unapologetic lyrical composition, often expressing a blatant disregard for legal institutions and authorities. On the other, court records reflect a Van Gogh’s ear for rap music, frequently allowing rap lyrics—but not similar lyrics from other genres—to be used as criminal evidence against the defendants who authored them. Over the last thirty years, this immiscibility has engendered a legal landscape where prosecutors wield rap lyrics as potent instruments for criminal prosecution. In such cases, color-blind courts neglect that rap …


International Arbitration Of Sep Frand Royalties, Steven Pepe, Samuel Brenner, Michael Morales Jan 2024

International Arbitration Of Sep Frand Royalties, Steven Pepe, Samuel Brenner, Michael Morales

Touro Law Review

Standard-essential patent royalty disputes have typically been litigated in U.S. federal district courts, but patent owners have recently started to file suit in courts across the globe, leading to issues of comity, anti-suit injunctions, and increased litigation costs. International arbitration provides a unique forum for parties to litigate these royalty disputes and avoid, or at least lessen the burden, of these issues. This Article explores the advantages and disadvantages of using international arbitration to resolve standard-essential patent royalty disputes.


Australia As A Model For Batson Reform, Evan M. Luellen Jan 2024

Australia As A Model For Batson Reform, Evan M. Luellen

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Editor, Barrett Cole Jan 2024

Letter From The Editor, Barrett Cole

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Global Civil Justice, Cesare Cavallini Jan 2024

Global Civil Justice, Cesare Cavallini

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Constraining Constitution-Making, Adam Chilton, Cristián Eyzaguirre, David Landau, Mila Versteeg Jan 2024

Constraining Constitution-Making, Adam Chilton, Cristián Eyzaguirre, David Landau, Mila Versteeg

Scholarly Publications

Whether constitution-making should be constrained has long been debated, but little is known about whether it is possible. We make several contributions to this question. We start by providing a typology of three types of constraints on constitution-making: Substantive, Procedural, and Institutional. We next develop a positive theory of when these constraints are likely to influence drafters' behavior. We then use a mixed-methods approach to explore these ideas in the context of Chile's constitutional reform process. In a survey experiment conducted in Chile before citizens voted on the draft constitution, we find that most respondents supported constraints in the abstract, …


An International Law Framework For Climate-Aligned Investment Governance, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Elena Klonsky, Fanny Marie Everard, Qiaozi Guanglin, Tyler Alviano, Justin Cuddihey, Mary Wang Jan 2024

An International Law Framework For Climate-Aligned Investment Governance, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Elena Klonsky, Fanny Marie Everard, Qiaozi Guanglin, Tyler Alviano, Justin Cuddihey, Mary Wang

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

The January 2024 CCSI Working Paper, An International Law Framework for Climate-Aligned Investment Governance, outlines a framework — and invites and hopes to inspire further thinking, research, and discussion — on how to bridge gaps and build cohesion among various areas of international law relevant to investment in climate mitigation and adaptation. The working paper identifies areas of international law that are or could be relevant to investment governance, highlights points of inconsistency, and proposes a framework to reform and integrate international law with the objective of promoting and facilitating climate investment flows and achieving climate-aligned regulation of investment.


Climatizing National Security, Mark P. Nevitt Jan 2024

Climatizing National Security, Mark P. Nevitt

Faculty Articles

Is climate change a national security issue? Human security? Ecological security? This Article addresses the growing nexus between climate change and various conceptions of security with a particular emphasis on climate change's national security impacts. This Article argues that there is a growing connection between national security and climate change and a corresponding need to address the normative implications of "climatizing national security." This connection can be observed through three lenses: mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions from military and national security sources); adaptation (investing in climate resilient infrastructure in an effort to prepare for climate impacts), and response (addressing climate-exacerbated …


Environmental War, Climate Security, And The Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Mark P. Nevitt Jan 2024

Environmental War, Climate Security, And The Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Mark P. Nevitt

Faculty Articles

This Article addresses the Russia-Ukraine conflict’s broad implications for energy security, climate security, and environment protections during wartime. I assert that in the short-term the Russian-Ukraine war is poised to hinder much-needed international climate progress. It will stymie international decarbonization efforts and cause greater uncertainty in other climate-destabilized parts of the world, such as the Arctic. While Russia has become a pariah in the eyes of the United States and other Western nations, it has forged new partnerships and capitalized on new, lucrative energy markets outside the West and Global South. But in the long term, the global renewable energy …


Legal Risk And Accountability In Development Finance: Lessons From Jam V. International Finance Corporation, Michelle Harrison, Shannon Marcoux Jan 2024

Legal Risk And Accountability In Development Finance: Lessons From Jam V. International Finance Corporation, Michelle Harrison, Shannon Marcoux

Perspectives

In a landmark decision in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jam v. International Finance Corporation that international organizations like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group, can be sued in U.S. courts, ending the “absolute immunity” from suit that they had long claimed. The Jam lawsuit arose out of IFC’s gross mishandling of the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant project in Gujarat, India, which has destroyed the livelihoods, environment, and way of life of local communities living in its shadow. The lawsuit, and especially the clash between IFC’s sweeping assertions of …


Section 94 Of The Land Code B.E. 2497: Legal Issues Concerning Illegal Acquisition, Disposal, And Retention Of Land By Foreigners, Methawee Suephithakmongkhon Jan 2024

Section 94 Of The Land Code B.E. 2497: Legal Issues Concerning Illegal Acquisition, Disposal, And Retention Of Land By Foreigners, Methawee Suephithakmongkhon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In practice, many foreigners have managed to acquire land in Thailand through nominee structures or proxy companies, despite legal prohibitions. Even when such unlawful acquisitions are discovered, Section 94 of Thailand’s Land Code B.E. 2497 does not penalize the conduct but instead allows foreigners to dispose of the land and retain both their initial investment and any resulting profit. This Independent Research Paper investigates Section 94 of Thailand’s Land Code B.E. 2497, a provision that permits foreigners who have unlawfully acquired land to dispose of it and retain the proceeds. Despite the formal prohibition on foreign land ownership, Section 94 …


Analysis On Investor Protection In Myanmar Under The Myanmar Investment Law 2016, Ei Ei Htwe Jan 2024

Analysis On Investor Protection In Myanmar Under The Myanmar Investment Law 2016, Ei Ei Htwe

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper explores the legal protections offered to foreign investors under the Myanmar Investment Law 2016 (MIL 2016), focusing on how these protections are structured, how they are applied in practice, and how they compare with international and regional standards. The law contains key provisions aimed at creating a stable and transparent investment environment. In particular, Section 47 ensures national treatment for foreign investors, meaning they should be treated no less favorably than local investors in similar situations. Section 48 commits to fair and equitable treatment (FET) and transparency, which are essential for ensuring that government decisions affecting investors are …


Whistleblower Protection In The Private Sector: A Comparative Study Of Laws In Thailand, The Us, And The Uk, Lena Sukprasongphol Jan 2024

Whistleblower Protection In The Private Sector: A Comparative Study Of Laws In Thailand, The Us, And The Uk, Lena Sukprasongphol

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Whistleblower protection plays a vital role in promoting transparency, deterring misconduct, and strengthening regulatory and corporate accountability. Despite its importance, Thailand’s current legal framework for protecting private-sector whistleblowers remains fragmented and underdeveloped. In the absence of a dedicated statute, legal protections are primarily dispersed across general labour and securities laws, leaving significant legal and practical gaps that undermine effective protection. This study adopts a doctrinal legal methodology to examine the scope and effectiveness of existing Thai legal provisions, identifying key areas of ambiguity and weakness in both legislation and enforcement. To inform and strengthen the analysis, a comparative legal approach …


Legal Loopholes And Uncertainties Of Nominee Structures Under Foreign Business Law Of Thailand: Comparative Analysis With Austrian Investment Law, Harald Hinterer Jan 2024

Legal Loopholes And Uncertainties Of Nominee Structures Under Foreign Business Law Of Thailand: Comparative Analysis With Austrian Investment Law, Harald Hinterer

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Laws and regulations concerning foreign direct investments in Thailand are at an all-time high. One of the most relevant legal bases for foreign direct investment is the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) (the “FBA”), which imposes restrictions on certain business activities. This research paper critically examines the effectiveness of the FBA in regulating foreign direct investment, with particular attention to nominee structures that may be used to circumvent statutory ownership restrictions. While the FBA aims to strike a balance between attracting foreign investment and protecting national interests, by focusing solely on capital shareholding, it contains loopholes which permit a …