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A Safety Net In The E-Marketplace: The Safe Harbor Principles Offer Comprehensive Privacy Protection Without Stopping Data Flow, William J. Kambas Jan 2002

A Safety Net In The E-Marketplace: The Safe Harbor Principles Offer Comprehensive Privacy Protection Without Stopping Data Flow, William J. Kambas

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

In May of 2000, the FTC, under Chairman Robert Pitofsky, concluded that industry self-regulation was not effective in protecting consumer privacy and in a report to Congress the FTC expressed the view "that legislation [was] necessary to ensure further implementation of consumer data protection devices."


Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan Jan 2002

Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

International legal research regarding international economic dispute settlement tends to be a-theoretical. A theoretically-grounded analytic framework is employed in this article which draws from scholarship from political science, sociology, and economics regarding institutions and international governmental organizations. The knowledge-legitimacy-efficiency analytic framework is applied in this article to studies of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GA TT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement in order to relate this relevant scholarship to the economic field under primary study, Internet domain names. GA TT/WTO knowledge regarding international trade law has thickened through multi-lateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement decisions. The WTO's legitimacy is …