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Leveraging Paraguay’S Hydropower For Sustainable Economic Development, Perrine Toledano, Nicolas Maennling

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

While internationally Paraguay is known for being the largest hydropower exporter in the world, the domestic economy suffers from regular outages and high system losses. The country is largely dependent on agricultural production, which has led to volatile economic performances in the past resulting from climatic circumstances and commodity price fluctuations. To address these two key policy challenges, the Government of Paraguay has approached The Earth Institute to: 1) explore the potential of a climate risk management system and sustainable agriculture activities to mitigate environmental vulnerability and 2) develop a high-level strategic plan to use Paraguay’s vast hydropower resources for …

Is New Governance The Ideal Architecture For Global Financial Regulation?, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A central challenge for international financial regulatory systems today is how to manage the impact of global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) on the global economy, given the interconnected and pluralistic nature of regulatory regimes. This paper focuses on the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and proposes a new research agenda for the FSB’s emerging regulatory forms. In particular, it examines the regulatory architecture of the New Governance (NG), a variety of approaches that are supposed to be more reflexive, collaborative, and experimental than traditional forms of governance. A preliminary conclusion is that NG tools may be effective in resolving some …

Lawyers And Precedent, Harlan G. Cohen

Scholarly Works

Despite common references to the “invisible college of international lawyers,” and the doctrinal role granted to “the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations,” the role of lawyers, as lawyers, in the creation, development, and maintenance of the international legal order remains oddly underexplored. This short essay, prepared as part of a symposium on “The Role of Non-State Actors in International Law,” explores the role of lawyers as independent actors within international law. It argues that focusing on lawyers can help provide insights into how international law develops — specifically here, how and why a practice of precedent seems …

Fall Roundtable: Africa And Human Rights, Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“Kenya’s Somali Contradiction” Ben Rawlence. Project Syndicate. September 30, 2013.

Analysis Towards The Urgency Of Establishing Indonesian Marine Law To Anticipate Transnational Organized Crime, Isplancius Ismail

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Indonesia is an island State that geographically consists of 70 percent of marine areas and 30 percent of the land. But there is no Indonesian marine policy, nor has any law governing marine comprehensively since ratified UNCLOS in 1982 by Law No. 17 of 1985. While the mindset of people still tend to the land. The enforcement of sovereignty and rule of law in Indonesian waters under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982) and the regulations of Indonesia against the violations of law known as Transnational Organized Crimes has not yet been done optimally. …

The Uncharted Waters Of Cyberspace: Applying The Principles Of International Maritime Law To The Problem Of Cybersecurity, William M. Stahl

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Conundrum Of Corporate Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute, Joel Slawotsky

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Remedial Secession: What The Law Should Have Done, From Katanga To Kosovo, Thomas W. Simon

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Unlocking The Mysteriousness Of Complementarity: In Search Of A Forum Conveniens For Trial Of The Leaders Of The Lord's Resistance Army, Alhagi Marong

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Symposium: Fallout: The Future Of Nuclear Security And Non-Proliferation. Significant Ambiguity In The Npt: A Continuing Issue, David S. Jonas

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Symposium: Fallout: The Future Of Nuclear Security And Non-Proliferation. Countering Proliferation: Wmd On The Move, Charles Allen

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Symposium: Fallout: The Future Of Nuclear Security And Non-Proliferation. Keynote Address, Larry D. Johnson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

This is the Table of Contents for volume 40, issue 1.

Orbital Debris: Out Of Space, Meghan R. Plantz

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Speaking Of Secession: A Theory Of Linguistic Secession, Sami M. Dudar

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Re-Examining The Falkland Islands War: The Necessity For Multi-Level Deterrence In Preventing Wars Of Aggression, Steven G. Stransky

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Recognition Of Palestinian Statehood: A Clarification Of The Interests Of The Concerned Parties, Winston P. Nagan, Aitza M. Haddad

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

This is the Table of Contents for volume 40, issue 2.

The Kosovo Case: An Argument For A Remedial Declaration Of Independence, Samuel Ethan Meller

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Kidnappers Without Borders: An Epidemic In Need Of Global Solutions, Caroline Gray Mcglamry

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

You're A Crook, Captain Hook! Navigating A Way Out Of The Somali Piracy Problem With The Rule Of Law, Andrew Michael Bagley

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

This is the Table of Contents for Volume 40, Issue 3.

Transfer Pricing: Un Guidelines — Brazil, Richard Thompson Ainsworth

Faculty Scholarship

The UN Practical Manual on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries endeavors to provide “clearer guidance on the policy and administrative aspects of applying transfer pricing analysis.” Chapter 10 is particularly noteworthy. It sets out specific country practices. The rules in Brazil, China, India and South Africa are offered as templates for developing countries to follow.

This article considers the Brazilian contribution to Chapter 10. Although some writers believe that developing countries should adopt the Brazilian model this article suggests otherwise. Even though it is a theoretically simple system, some aspects of the Brazilian model consistently work to the fiscal disadvantage …

Al-Libi And Detention At Sea, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Continued Oversight Of The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act : Hearing Before The S. Committee On The Judiciary, 113th Cong., October 2, 2013 (Statement By Professor Carrie F. Cordero, Geo. U. L. Center), Carrie F. Cordero

Testimony Before Congress

From my perspective, the challenge for members of this Committee is to identify whether there are actual problems with either the law or process, and then craft remedies that address those specific issues. I am here to urge caution in implementing “quick fixes” that may sound appealing based on public or media-driven pressure, but that could have lasting consequences at a practical level that could negatively impact Intelligence Community operations and the nation’s security for years to come.

Continued Oversight Of The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act : Hearing Before The S. Committee On The Judiciary, 113th Cong., October 2, 2013 (Remarks By Professor Laura K. Donohue, Geo. U. L. Center), Laura K. Donohue

Testimony Before Congress

Congress introduced the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to make use of new technologies and to enable the intelligence community to obtain information vital to U.S. national security, while preventing the National Security Agency (NSA) and other federal intelligence-gathering entities from engaging in broad domestic surveillance. The legislature sought to prevent a recurrence of the abuses of the 1960s and 1970s that accompanied the Cold War and the rapid expansion in communications technologies.

Congress purposefully circumscribed the NSA’s authorities by limiting them to foreign intelligence gathering. It required that the target be a foreign power or an agent thereof, …

The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on "The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era." The article argues that the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae, is not a mere metaphor, pace the views of some other contributions to the conference and symposium and of the mentality mostly prevailing over the last five hundred years. The argument is that the Church and her directly God-given rights are ontologically irreducible in a way that the rights of, say, the state of California or even of the United States are not. Based on a …

Constitutional Borrowing As Jurisprudential And Political Doctrine In Shri D.K. Basu V. State Of West Bengal, Sam F. Halabi

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

The discipline of comparative constitutional law today is focused in significant part on the study of how and why judges use foreign precedent. Scholars debate the propriety of using foreign precedent as “authority,” circumstances under which such use is consistent with democracy (or a product of democratization), and which constitutional traditions may derive the greatest benefit from comparison. While comparative law theorists have long reflected on, and struggled with, a standard disciplinary vocabulary to describe what judges do when they engage in “comparative constitutional law,” the existing scholarship generally distributes judges’ use of foreign precedent into one of three modes …

Ungoverned Spaces, Transnational Crime, And The Prohibition On Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction In International Law, Dan E. Stigall

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

This Article explicates the international legal framework governing State action against transnational crime; it also explores the disparity in what international law permits military actors to do in situations of armed conflict versus what actions civilians may undertake in the course of extraterritorial law enforcement operations. This Article argues that the trend of militarization in the U.S. approach to transnational crime law is, in part, a function of this legal disparity and that this trend could be reversed a degree if international law recognized a greater degree of flexibility for certain limited categories of extraterritorial law enforcement actions by civilian …

Volume 45:1 Expanding Online Universe, Shrinking Globe, Jamie Lynn Vanaria

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.