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The Powers Of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights Towards The Implementation Of Gender Justice Laws At The National Level In South America, Kiana Therrien-Tomas Miss

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

Although South America is earning international attention as an innovative global leader in various fields, it currently remains a nation steeped in traditional beliefs and practices. Despite prevailing laws against domestic violence, countless Latin American women proceed to be failed by the legal system. As South American society produces its own theory of gender justice, apprised by local realities and universally accepted norms, women's rights advocates and the Supreme Court can represent a decisive role in forming the discourse. Throughout this work, I aim to contemplate the powers of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) towards the implementation of …

Addressing Climate Change: Comparing The Paris Agreement To The Addition Of Ecocide To The Rome Statute, Regan K. Robinson

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

This paper argues that ecocide is the most effective way to address climate change. Through comparing ecocide to the Paris Agreement, this paper concludes ecocide has the potential to better ensure that States commit to reducing environmental harm. It is concluded that ecocide is the most effective way to address climate change as ecocide holds more polluters accountable, utilizes a more effective pre-emptive approach, contains stronger legal consequences and employs a narrative that emphasizes the protection of human rights. As climate change continues to exacerbate, this paper provides valuable insight on how we can better address climate change at an …

Statements To The Wipo Standing Committee On Committee On Copyright And Related Rights, Electronic Information For Libraries

Testimony and Submissions

As an NGO accredited with permanent observer status at WIPO, EIFL has the opportunity to make interventions at sessions of WIPO committees and meetings

EIFL advocates at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for an international copyright framework that benefits libraries in developing and transition economy countries. We participate in sessions of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) that usually meets in Geneva twice a year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, just one SCCR took place in 2021, in hybrid mode (online for observers and limited physical participation for member state delegates).

We work with Member States …

Masthead

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The Editor-In-Chief, Liliana A. León Rivera

UC Law SF International Law Review

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A Relational Governance Perspective On The Politics Of China’S Social Credit System For Corporations, Alice De Jonge

UC Law SF International Law Review

This paper uses a comparative method to analyze China’s evolving Social Credit System (SCS) for corporations, and the political discourse used to portray SCS as a governance tool facilitating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Chinese characteristics. A modified relational governance framework is used. The importance of relationships (guanxi) in the Chinese business context is that it makes a modified form of the relational governance perspective uniquely appropriate. This study also draws upon evolving literature examining the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in international business contexts.

China’s corporate SCS is explicitly designed to evaluate corporate behavior through a “scoring” system of …

Buyer Beware: An Exploratory Assessment Of The Static And Dynamic Effects Of The New Chilean Food Labeling Model, Omar Vasquez Duque

UC Law SF International Law Review

Chile recently introduced an innovative food warning label system that intends to reduce current overweight and obesity levels among the Chilean population. This initiative has been generally commended worldwide. Chile’s new food labeling system mandates food producers to include a warning label that resembles a stop sign when the product exceeds a certain level of calories, fat, sodium, and sugar per 100 mg. The idea behind this regulation is that by making health risks more salient to eaters with simplified disclosures, people will change their eating behavior.

As a consequence of this new law, many product markets show a clear …

Unilateral Economic Sanctions And Protecting U.S. National Security, Fatemeh Bagherzadeh

UC Law SF International Law Review

Terrorism remains the most important national security concern. Multi-national economic organizations around the world have increasingly established counter-terrorism commissions to assess the magnitude of the threat posed by terrorism. Economic sanctions have been a counter-terrorism measure for many decades and remain an essential tool of U.S. foreign policy and a mechanism to protect the U.S. national security interests. In recent years, the internationalization of terrorism and emergence of non-state terrorist actors has led the U.S. to use smart targeted sanctions to dismantle financial support of terrorism. Yet, conventional country-specific nation-wide sanctions that penalize a single target nation, continue to be …

Rethinking Copyright Harmonization, Clark Asay

Indiana Law Journal

For nearly half a century, the United States has been one of the main proponents of harmonizing the world’s copyright laws. To that end, the U.S. government has worked diligently to persuade (and, in some cases, bully) most of the world’s countries to adopt copyright standards that resemble those found in the United States. The primary reason for this push to harmonize the world’s copyright laws is simple: the United States has long been a net exporter of copyrighted works, and so the U.S. government has sought to ensure that other countries provide U.S. authors with the same economic rights …

Responsible Coffee Sourcing: Towards A Living Income For Producers, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Margaret Sagan, Solina Kennedy

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

Coffee, one of the world’s most popular beverages, provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people across dozens of countries. Promoting the long-term health, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability of the much beloved coffee sector should be a clear priority.

CCSI has continued its work on coffee sustainability with a 2021 report: “Responsible Coffee Sourcing: Towards a Living Income for Producers.” The report focuses on a critical but under-examined topic: the impact of coffee company sourcing practices on coffee producer and farmworker well-being. The report, commissioned by a long-term investment manager, analyzes the sourcing practices of ten large coffee roasters and …

Intolerable Histories And Imperfect Narratives: Nationhood, Identity, And The Integrity Of Law In Post-Vichy France And Beyond, Kaela S. Holmen

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The principal aim of this thesis project is to examine the socio-legal context of the Vichy regime in World War II France, and to provide an understanding of how that context informed, and continues to inform, the integrity of French nationhood. With Ernest Renan’s oubli serving as a framework for the solidification of nationhood, I will demonstrate that the betrayals to French law and custom that were committed in an attempt to right the wrongs of the Vichy resulted in an imperfect forgetting, and ultimately, a more fragmented national sense of self. I contend that this imperfect oubli resulting from …

Intellectual Property Rights And Public Policy On The Role Of Plain Packaging And Health Care In India, Anil Kumar Vishwakarma, Maria Devi Angerhofer

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Although tobacco is a multi-billion-dollar industry globally, its consumers are prone to various non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, heart attack, etc. Therefore, to prevent this, many states have taken initiatives to discourage the consumption of this harmful product. Many international organizations like World Health Organization (WHO) have supported these preventive measures through The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The main objective of this convention is to encourage the concept of packaging all brands of tobacco products in a uniform standard, which is known as the Plain packaging process. This was the first initiative adopted by Australia. This …

Law Enforcement Perspectives On Public Access To Misconduct Records, Rachel Moran, Jessica Hodge

Cardozo Law Review

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Social Science Research And Reforms Of International Institutions, Weijia Rao

Faculty Scholarship

Building on Daniel Abebe, Adam Chilton and Tom Ginsburg’s call for more social science research in international law, this Essay discusses ways in which social science research can be applied to inform reforms of international institutions. In the face of significant challenges to the current international legal order, active reform discussions have been ongoing concerning a number of international institutions. This Essay posits that in developing proposals to reform these international institutions, more attention should be paid to identify the causes of existing problems, which is important in an international setting where decision-making requires the consensus of multiple stakeholders. The …

Eifl And Library Group Comments On Updated Draft Wipo Cmo Toolkit (2021), Electronic Information For Libraries

Testimony and Submissions

EIFL and partner organizations in the library, archives and museum communities responded to a public consultation to provide additional comments on the updated draft WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations (CMOs), released on 27 May 2021. Publication of the updated draft Toolkit follows an earlier consultation that took place in April 2021.

The updated version of the Toolkit contains an expanded section on supervision and monitoring of CMOs (Section 13). We noted three concerns in the updated Section 13, in particular. In our comments, we propose a number of amendments to address the concerns in Section 13, along …

Gender-Based Violence In International Human Rights Law: Evolution Towards A Binding Post-Binary Framework, Tatsiana Ziniakova

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The present Article seeks to analyze the notion of gender-based violence, in light of the evolving gender discourse, and identify the problems associated with effectively addressing it in international human rights law. It analyzes the definitions of gender, enshrined in various human rights documents, and suggests using performative theory of gender to form a comprehensive view on gender-based violence. It also critically addresses three aspects of regulating gender-based violence: inclusivity, patriarchy, and normativity. It concludes that, in the long term, the commitment to eradicate gender-based violence should be strengthened by framing it as a binding treaty obligation on the universal …

Shelter From The Storm: Human Rights Protections For Single-Mother Families In The Time Of Covid-19, Theresa Glennon, Alexis Fennell, Kaylin Hawkins, Madison Mcnulty

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

COVID-19’s arrival, and the changes it has unleashed, reveal how longstanding legal and policy decisions produced structural inequalities that have left so many families, and especially single-parent families with children, all too insecure. The fragility of single-mother families is amplified by the multifaceted discrimination they face. While all single parents, including single fathers and other single relatives who are raising children, share many of these burdens, this Article focuses on the challenges confronting single mothers.

Federal policy choices stand in sharp contrast to the political rhetoric of government support for families. Social and economic policy in the twentieth century developed …

Odious Debts: Issues In Law And Politics, Yvonne Wong

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Odious sovereign contracts inhibit developing country growth. They cause money and resources to be improperly transferred from one country to an undeserving one. Think tanks and civil society actors have long suggested that Indonesia is plagued by a sizeable odious sovereign contract account. Policy makers and scholars continue to grapple with how the odious debts doctrine may operate in law to curb this important problem. Taking into account the lack of transparency in an odious contract setting, this paper proposes a new approach premised on principles of transparency, accountability and citizen participation in public contracts. In design, it proposes the …

Consignment In Land Acquisition, Are S. Hutagalung, Triska Sationo

Indonesian Journal of International Law

This paper provides an overview of land acquisition for public interest projects with a focus on a specific aspect of the process: the consignment of the compensation payment in court when an affected land owner rejects the compensation offered by the government institution that requires the land. Consignment has become a common practice in cases where the government and land owner can not reach a mutual agreement on land compensation during the negotiation time frame established by regulation. The first part of this paper presents some general facts about consignment and how it is regulated in Indonesia. The second part …

Paradigm Shift In The Implementation Of The Law Of The Sea In Indonesia, Tommy Hendra Purwaka

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Indonesia has experienced four times paradigm shift in the implementation of the law of the sea since it declared its archipelagic state principle in 1957 through the 1957 Djuanda declaration up to now. The shifting of paradigms can be viewed as a progressive development on the implementation of the law of the sea in Indonesia. The first paradigm was ocean space paradigm which was clearly shown in the 1957 Djuanda declaration and along the way of the diplomacy efforts of Indonesia in the first (1958), the second (1960) and the third (1982) UNCLOS. The first paradigm showed how Indonesian people …

The Obligation Not To Pollute: From Corollary Of State Sovereignty To The Right To A Decent Environment, Eliza Ruozzi

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The paper deals with the evolution of the principle of international environmental law prohibiting the use of the territory of a State for activities which may damage the territory of another State. This principle started to develop in relation to strictly trans-boundary situations as a sort of corollary of the well-established principle of sovereignty of States over their territory. In the last decades, international law has been increasingly faced to contexts in which pollution concerns resources over which States have no jurisdiction, such as the atmosphere. Therefore the question arises as to whether these elements - as evidence of practice …

International Law Reform Towards The Flood Of Future Climate Change Refugees, Mohamed Mowjoon Athambawa

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The popularity of the term “climate change refugees” has been dramatically increasing with the awareness and the disaster of the global warming. The prophecy for mass forced migrations as the consequence of climate change is deplorable. A scandalous statistics revealed that 200 million people would become climate change refugees by 2050. However there is a huge fortification gap in the international legal system which addresses the climate change refugees. Recently academics, lawyers and governments have identified the issues related to climate change refugees and realized the urgency of the formation of policies regarding the protection of the climate change refugees …

Growth And Development Of Air And Space Law, Priyatna Abdurrasyid

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The article provides a brief background on the development of air and space law from the historical perspective. It concludes that the scientific discipline of air law can be dissected from several elements, namely geographical elements, temporal elements, personal elements, material elements, and functional elements. With regard to space law, the article provides its scientific development and its ramification to other disciplines, most importantly telecommunication law.

Open Skies Policy: The Developing Countries Point Of View, E. Saefullah Wiradipradja

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The concept of open skies policy is an international policy concept which aims to liberalize of rules and regulations on international commercial aviation industry. For developed countries, by allowing air carriers unlimited market access to its partners’ markets and the right to fly to all intermediate and beyond points, open skies agreements provide maximum operational flexibility for airline alliances. They may have the best opportunities, as they will be able and in the best position to offer the best product to the better part of the air traffic market. On the contrary, for developing countries, open skies policy may cause …

Do The European And Dutch Rules On Variable Remuneration Of Financial Institutions Match And Can Remuneration Be Regulated On A European Level?, D. E. M. Kromwijk, W. J. Oostwouder

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The special committee of inquiry into the financial crisis (Tijdelijke commissie onderzoek financieel stelsel), better known as the De Wit Committee was in charge of investigating for the second chamber of the Dutch Parliament how the credit crisis had originated and how a future crisis could be prevented. In its report, the Committee paid special attention to the influence of remuneration on the crisis. In its final report, three of the twenty five recommendations concerned remuneration. Not only in the Netherlands was there attention for the incentives of remuneration and their role in the credit crisis, but also in the …

The Echoes Of International Human Rights Law: In Perspective Of Law Enforcement Dimension To Deal With Irregular Immigrants In Indonesia, Muhammad Indra

Indonesian Journal of International Law

International human rights laws in the forms of United Nations Statues, International Conventions, Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international law instruments have highlighted a guarantee of humanitarian protection which echoing human rights components without exception inborn to human being in particular refugees as the subject of international law. In managing minimum standard of rights and duties of a refugee and the judicial status of refugee under the protection of UNHCR and IOM humanitarian efforts within Indonesian territorial jurisdiction it is required the all of refugees and asylum seeker abide to national regulation and legislation formats while they are …

Why The 2020 U.S.-China Trade Agreement Needs Anticorruption Provisions For The Protection Of Intellectual Property, Daniel C.K. Chow

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Art Of Economic War: Cultural Property Import Tariffs As Foreign Policy, Catherine Braun

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Masthead, Jounral Of International & Comparative Law, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Editor, Fon Bisalbutr

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.