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Rachael Paschal Osborn |
Climate Change and the Columbia River Treaty |
2 Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 75 (June, 2012) |
Justice O.W. Holmes, New Jersey v. New York, 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931) Abstract: The year 2014 is a key date for the potential re-negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada. The Treaty coordinates hydropower operations at 14 mainstem and multiple tributary dams, with the dual goals of maximizing flood control and... |
2012 |
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Gil Gott , Sumi Cho |
Cluster Introduction: Culture, Knowledge, Law, and Community Countering "New Sovereignty" with Knowledge |
22 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 67 (2012) |
Sovereignty, as used in this introduction to the cluster of articles on Culture, Knowledge, Law and Community, refers to a form of both social identity and political organization. We use the concept of sovereignty and new sovereignty to provide a broader lens through which to analyze the set of articles in this cluster addressing topical issues... |
2012 |
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Erica Burleigh |
Coercion, Conviction, Conversion: Sovereign Selves and Interior States in Colonial Piracy Trials and Narratives |
24 Law and Literature 151 (Summer, 2012) |
Abstract: This essay argues that the legal and religious rhetoric surrounding Anglo-American piracy trials in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries staged an emerging understanding of individual will and sovereignty as both an extension of and in conflict with political sovereignty. Published reports of piracy trials and execution... |
2012 |
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Brannon Parker |
Constitutional Law-sovereign Immunity- Congress's Authorization of "Appropriate Relief" in Federal Statute Does Not Waive States' Immunity to Private Suits Seeking Money Damages. Sossamon v. Texas, 131 S. Ct. 1651 (2011). |
42 Cumberland Law Review 599 (2011-2012) |
The Supreme Court addressed state sovereign immunity to suits for money damages under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) in Sossamon v. Texas. In Sossamon, petitioner Harvey Leroy Sossamon III (Sossamon), a Texas prison inmate, brought suit seeking injunctive and monetary relief against the State of Texas and... |
2012 |
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Omar M. Dajani |
Contractualism in the Law of Treaties |
34 Michigan Journal of International Law L. 1 (Fall 2012) |
Introduction. 2 I. Contractualism in Private Law. 9 A. When Agreement Conquers Law: Some Intellectual History. 11 B. The Functions of Mandatory Rules. 17 1. Protecting Parties Outside a Transaction. 18 2. Protecting Parties to a Transaction. 22 II. Mandatory Rules of International Law?. 26 A. Early Recognition of Mandatory Rules in International... |
2012 |
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Karen Halverson Cross |
Converging Trends in Investment Treaty Practice |
38 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 151 (Fall 2012) |
I. Introduction. 152 II. Evolution of U.S. BIT Practice. 156 A. BIT Program Origins. 156 B. NAFTA Chapter 11 and its Effects on U.S. BIT Practice. 163 1. NAFTA Chapter 11 Claims. 167 2. Effects on U.S. BIT Practice: MAI and TPA. 177 C. New Generation of U.S. BITs and FTAs. 188 1. Preamble.. 190 2. Limits on Indirect Expropriation.. 191 3. Fair and... |
2012 |
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Robert Bejesky |
Currency Cooperation and Sovereign Financial Obligations |
24 Florida Journal of International Law 91 (April, 2012) |
I. Introduction. 92 II. Framing Appropriate Odd Circumstances. 94 A. Corporate Form and Sovereign Borrowing. 94 B. Isolating Propaganda. 97 C. An Unassuming ODD Application. 99 III. Identifying Odious Debt. 104 A. ODD Circumstances Coagulated Forty Years Ago. 104 B. From Fixed to Floating Exchange Rates and Loan Pushing. 106 C. 1980s Loan Pushing... |
2012 |
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Randi Mandelbaum, Elissa Steglich |
Disparate Outcomes: the Quest for Uniform Treatment of Immigrant Children |
50 Family Court Review 606 (October, 2012) |
Increasingly, immigrants and immigration issues are present in family court practice. One underutilized protection available to provide relief to abused, abandoned, and neglected immigrant youth is Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS). After providing an overview of the law and regulations concerning SIJS, this article presents the challenges... |
2012 |
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Major Andrew R. Atkins |
Doctrinally Accounting for Host Nation Sovereignty During U.s. Counterinsurgency Security Operations |
212 Military Law Review 70 (Summer, 2012) |
In the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will emphasize non-military means and military-to-military cooperation to address instability and reduce the demand for significant U.S. force commitments to stability operations. U.S. forces will nevertheless be ready to conduct limited counterinsurgency and other stability... |
2012 |
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Andrew L. Askew |
Environmental Law - Endangered Species: Interpreting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and its Prohibition Against the "Taking" of Protected Birds |
88 North Dakota Law Review 843 (2012) |
In United States v. Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P., the United States District Court of North Dakota refused to adopt an expansive interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and held that oil and gas companies' use of reserve pits, which resulted in the deaths of numerous protected birds, did not fall under the prohibitions of the MBTA. The... |
2012 |
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Edward T. Swaine |
Ersatz Treaties |
44 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 833 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 833 II. The Relative Virtues of Other Mechanisms. 836 A. Agenda-Setting. 837 B. Courts and Litigators. 841 C. Domestic Mobilization. 842 III. Competition, Complement, and Sequencing. 844 IV. Conclusion: Perspectives on Human Rights Treaties. 849 |
2012 |
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Tess deLiefde |
Filling in the Gaps: a New Approach to Treaty Implementation Reconciling the Supremacy Clause and Federalism Concerns |
66 University of Miami Law Review 567 (Winter 2012) |
I. Introduction. 567 II. Background of Bond v. United States. 570 A. The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. 572 B. Bond's Appeals. 574 III. Judicial Control of Treaties. 575 A. Judicial Analysis of the Treaty Power. 575 B. Nationalists, New Federalists, and the Changing Nature of Treaties. 577 IV. Executive Control of the Treaty Power. 582 A. The... |
2012 |
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Allison Condra |
Food Sovereignty in the United States: Supporting Local and Regional Food Systems |
8 Journal of Food Law & Policy 281 (Fall 2012) |
I. Introduction. 282 II. Food and Agriculture System Jurisdiction. 283 A. Congress' Ability to Regulate Local Issues: Wickard v. Filburn. 284 1. Homegrown Wheat. 285 2. The Effects Test . 286 3. Wickard v. Filburn Today. 286 B. Federal Level. 288 1. United States Department of Agriculture. 288 2. Food and Drug Administration. 290 3. Concurrent... |
2012 |
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Ida Danielle Mashburn-Myrick |
Giving "The Help" the Silent Treatment: How Alabama's New Immigration Law Punishes Domestic Workers, Ignores Certain Employers, and Shortchanges Us All |
64 Alabama Law Review 443 (2012) |
Introduction. 444 I. Background. 446 A. H.B. 56's Findings and Purposes. 446 B. Immigration in Alabama. 447 C. The Domestic-Employer Exemption. 449 1. What Is Casual Domestic Labor Within the Household?. 450 2. Women, Increasingly Foreign-Born, Tend to Hold These Jobs. 451 II. Alabama's Exemption for Domestic Labor Is Not Unique. 452 A. Labor... |
2012 |
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Oona A. Hathaway , Sabria McElroy , Sara Aronchick Solow |
International Law at Home: Enforcing Treaties in U.s. Courts |
37 Yale Journal of International Law 51 (Winter 2012) |
I. Introduction. 51 II. The History of International Law at Home. 56 A. Founding to World War II. 57 1. Contract. 60 2. Property and Inheritance. 60 3. Detention and Habeas Corpus. 61 4. Right to Carry on Trade . 62 B. World War II to Medellín. 63 1. The Presumption in Favor of Enforcement Weakens. 63 2. The Bricker Backlash. 68 C. After... |
2012 |
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John T. Parry |
International Law in State Courts: Sovereignty, Resistance, Contagion, and Inevitability |
20 Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution 57 (2012) |
I. Introduction. 57 II. International Law in the Founding Era. 61 III. From Swift to Erie. 61 IV. States and International Law: Insulation and Contagion. 61 V. International Law in State Courts, Redux. 61 VI. Conclusion. 61 |
2012 |
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James A. Green, University of Reading |
Interpreting the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. By Daniel H. Joyner. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. Xiv, 184. Index. $100 |
106 American Journal of International Law 426 (April, 2012) |
To set Daniel Joyner's new book on the 1968 Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in context, it is worth recalling the basic nature of that treaty. The NPT is commonly said to represent the cornerstone of international nuclear law. It sets out a system of differentiated obligations between two groups of states: nuclear-weapon... |
2012 |
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David A. Schnitzer |
Into Justice Jackson's Twilight: a Constitutional and Historical Analysis of Treaty Termination |
101 Georgetown Law Journal 243 (November, 2012) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 244 I. Overview of Argument. 246 a. scope and definitional issues. 247 b. history of scholarly attention. 248 c. the problem of authoritative sources and institutional bias. 251 II. The Historical Understanding of Treaty Termination. 251 a. original intent and the framers' early official acts. 251 1. 1798: The... |
2012 |
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Ernest A. Young |
Its Hour Come Round at Last? State Sovereign Immunity and the Great State Debt Crisis of the Early Twenty-first Century |
35 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 593 (Spring, 2012) |
This is a story of austerity's influence on constitutional doctrine. Outside the narrow community of federal jurisdiction aficionados, people seem to pay attention to state sovereign immunity about every hundred years. In 1793, the Supreme Court decided Chisholm v. Georgia, holding that a state could be sued by an individual in federal court for... |
2012 |
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Arthur Rizer |
Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan: Is it Time for the United States to Sign the Ottawa Treaty and End the Use of Landmines? |
49 Willamette Law Review 35 (Fall 2012) |
I. Introduction. 36 II. History. 37 A. History of Landmines Warfare. 37 1. The First Silent Killers. 37 2. The Revolution of Landmines. 40 3. With Sticks and Duct Tape: IEDs. 42 B. History of the Law. 43 1. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. 43 2. Ottawa Treaty. 46 3. The United States' Role in Landmine Law. 49 C. Reconciling the Law and... |
2012 |
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Kimberly Kiplin , David Schenck , Michael Wang |
Litigation with the Sovereign in Texas |
61 The Advocate (Texas) 31 (Winter, 2012) |
AS A GENERAL RULE, FEDERAL AND STATE CLAIMS AGAINST the sovereign run like parallel lines with little common ground. This article will attempt to provide a general overview of the unique issues surrounding litigation with the government, particularly jurisdictional and sovereign immunity. Whether in state or federal venues, bringing suit against... |
2012 |
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A. Paul Firuz |
Looking Forward: the Columbia River Treaty |
2 Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 170 (June, 2012) |
Abstract: Since 1964, the Columbia River Treaty has shaped the joint use of the Columbia River by the United States and Canada. The Treaty will be impervious to change until 2024, but either party may give notice of an intent to alter it as soon as 2014. Since the Treaty's ratification, changes in United States domestic law have reflected a shift... |
2012 |
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by Eric T. Berkman, Framingham, MA |
Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band |
39 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 264 (4/16/2012) |
The Secretary of the Interior acquired Indian land in trust for a tribe to operate a gaming facility. Respondent David Patchak, a neighboring resident, alleged that the secretary lacked authority under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) to take the land because the tribe was not under federal jurisdiction at the time the law was passed. The... |
2012 |
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Mitsuhiko A. Takahashi |
Migratory Bird Treaties' Issues and Potentials: Are They Valuable Tools or Just Curios in the Box? |
42 Environmental Law 609 (Spring 2012) |
This Essay explores the achievements, issues, and potentials of bilateral migratory bird treaties (MBTs). MBTs have been successful in strengthening domestic laws and facilitating international cooperation for avian conservation. However, the merits of MBTs are mostly limited to migratory bird species in a limited number of countries. Multinational... |
2012 |
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Samantha D. E. Tucker |
No Way to Treat Man's Best Friends: the Uncounted Injuries of Animal Cruelty Victims |
19 Animal Law 151 (2012) |
As society has come to recognize the sentience and intelligence of nonhuman animals, jurisdictions across the United States (U.S.) have promulgated animal protection laws. Despite the development of anti-cruelty statutes, though, states with sentence enhancement mechanisms continue to elevate criminal offenders' sentences only if they injure human... |
2012 |
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Michael C. Seto, J. Michael Wood, Kelly M. Babchishin, Sheri Flynn, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Brockville, Ontario, Canada, Arkansas Department of Correction, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Carleton University, Arkansas Department of Correction, Pine Bluff, A |
Online Solicitation Offenders Are Different from Child Pornography Offenders and Lower Risk Contact Sexual Offenders |
36 Law and Human Behavior 320 (2012) |
The current study compared 38 lower risk (based on actuarial risk assessments) men convicted of contact sexual offenses against children, 38 child pornography offenders, and 70 solicitation offenders (also known as luring or traveler offenders). Solicitation and child pornography offenders were better educated than contact offenders but did not... |
2012 |
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Asli Bâli , Aziz Rana |
Pax Arabica?: Provisional Sovereignty and Intervention in the Arab Uprisings |
42 California Western International Law Journal 321 (Spring 2012) |
Two moments of apparent symbolic victory punctuated 2011--a year of uprisings and incipient revolution in the Arab world. The first occurred when the deposed former-president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was wheeled on a hospital bed into a makeshift courtroom for a trial in which he would be held accountable from behind the bars of a cage. The second... |
2012 |
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Carol A. Heimer , J. Lynn Gazley |
Performing Regulation: Transcending Regulatory Ritualism in Hiv Clinics |
46 Law and Society Review 853 (December, 2012) |
Sociolegal scholars suggest that regulatory encounters often are occasions for displaying a surface compliance decoupled from day-to-day practice. Yet ethnographic data from five highly regulated HIV clinics show that regulatory encounters open opportunities both for ritualism and--surprisingly--for transcending ritualism. Using a theatrical... |
2012 |
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Nicole Brown |
Rat Fishing and the Disparate Treatment of Pest Animals |
1 Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy 10 (Fall, 2012) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 10 II. RATS AS PESTS. 11 III. RATS AS SPORT. 14 IV. RAT FISHING IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. 16 A. Sport Context: Maryland Hunting Law. 16 1. Maryland Cruelty Law. 17 2. Baltimore's Response to Recent Animal Abuse. 19 3. Recommendations. 20 B. Pest Context: Maryland Pest Control Law. 20 1. Response to Deer. 21 2. Response to Feral Cats.... |
2012 |
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George K. Foster |
Recovering "Protection and Security": the Treaty Standard's Obscure Origins, Forgotten Meaning, and Key Current Significance |
45 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1095 (October, 2012) |
Among the most persistent controversies in international investment law is the nature of the protection and security standard found in most investment treaties. Some tribunals contend that the standard requires nothing more than physical protection of covered investments, while others maintain that it requires legal security as well. Some insist... |
2012 |
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Elizabeth Baldwin , Kenneth R. Richards |
Redd, Pinc, and Other Shades of Green: Institutional Requirements for an International Forest Carbon Sequestration Treaty in a Post-kyoto World |
52 Natural Resources Journal J. 1 (Spring 2012) |
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change moves closer to an agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, more attention must be paid to the institutions that would support an international forest carbon sequestration (IFCS) program. This article identifies key support services that are needed for any IFCS... |
2012 |
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Franita Tolson |
Reinventing Sovereignty?: Federalism as a Constraint on the Voting Rights Act |
65 Vanderbilt Law Review 1195 (May, 2012) |
The framers of the U.S. Constitution wrote the Elections Clause to address concerns that the states would fail to call congressional elections and weaken the already fragile new government. The Clause is a delegation of sovereignty from the states to the federal government because, although states select the time, place, and manner of elections,... |
2012 |
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Shirley Darby Howell |
Religious Treatment Exemption Statutes: Betrayest Thou Me with a Statute? |
14 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 945 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 946 II. Religious Exemption Defined. 948 III. An Overview of Faith Healing Traditions in America and the Perspective of Faith Healing Parents. 950 A. Faith Healing Traditions in America. 950 B. The Prototypical Faith Healing Parent. 954 IV. Public Policy Protectionism for Children. 956 A. Common Law Doctrinal Protections for... |
2012 |
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Stacey Marlise Gahagan |
Returning to Vattel: a "Gentlemen's Agreement" for the Twenty-first Century |
37 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 847 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 847 II. Evolution of the Intellectual and Moral Conception of CIL. 853 A. Conceptions of Customary International Law: Pre-Vattel. 853 B. Vattel's Necessary Law of Nations. 855 C. Vattel's Positive Law of Nations. 858 D. Bradley and Gulati on Vattel. 860 III. History's Effect on the Legacy of Vattel. 864 A. Customary Law and... |
2012 |
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Ilana Arnowitz Drescher |
Seeking Justice for America's Forgotten Victims: Reforming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Terrorism Exception |
15 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 791 (2012) |
Introduction. 792 I. Legislative History of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Terrorism Exception. 797 A. Backdrop to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. 798 B. Establishment of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. 799 C. The 1996 Amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. 801 D. The 2002 Amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities... |
2012 |
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Donna M. Hansen , Jessica C. Miles , Joseph R. Flood, Jr. |
Sovereign Immunity from Negligent Supervision and Training Claims: What's the King to Do? |
31 Trial Advocate Quarterly 36 (Winter, 2012) |
Section 768.28, Florida Statutes, waives sovereign immunity for tort damages caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of [an] agency or subdivision while acting within the scope of the employee's office or employment. The following article summarizes issues that have arisen when applying this language to claims of... |
2012 |
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Oscar Teunissen, Puneet Arora, and Ronald Kalungi |
Sovereign Investment Funds: Tax Considerations for Global Investors (Part 2) |
23 Journal of International Taxation 22 (December, 2012) |
Countries that exempt SIF income from taxation generally do so under domestic law, administrative practice, or a double tax treaty. Countries that tax SIF income generally tax SIFs the same as other nonresident companies. As noted in Part 1 of this article, there are several different types of sovereign investment funds (SIFs), each with unique... |
2012 |
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Winston P. Nagan , Aitza M. Haddad |
Sovereignty in Theory and Practice |
13 San Diego International Law Journal 429 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 430 II. The Historical Context. 435 A. Jean Bodin and Sovereignty Theories in Context. 438 B. The Work and Contributions of Thomas Hobbes. 442 C. The Work and Contributions of Hugo Grotius. 444 D. The Treaty of Westphalia. 446 E. The Work and Contributions of Pufendorf and Vattel. 447 F. The Work and Contributions of Moser and... |
2012 |
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Alexander G. Davis |
Space Commercialization: the Need to Immediately Renegotiate Treaties Implicating International Environmental Law |
3 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law 363 (2011-2012) |
I. Introduction. 364 A. The Current Space Commercialization Landscape. 366 B. Space Launches Have and Will Continue to Cause Significant International Environmental Harm. 368 C. International Environmental Law Will Be Invoked from Space Commercialization. 370 D. We May Use the Doctrine of Clausula Rebus Sic Stantibus to Amend the Treaties Now. 373... |
2012 |
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Michael Landau |
State Sovereign Immunity and Intellectual Property Revisited |
22 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 513 (Spring 2012) |
Introduction. 514 I. The Eleventh Amendment: History and Background. 517 A. Ratification of the Amendment: A Reaction to Chisholm v. Georgia. 518 B. The Eleventh Amendment Re-emerges: Post Reconstruction and Hans v. Louisiana. 522 II. Competing Theories of Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence. 524 A. The Eleventh Amendment Broadly Restricts Article III... |
2012 |
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Phil Haas |
Status and Sovereignty of the Liancourt Rocks: the Dispute Between Japan and Korea |
15 Gonzaga Journal of International Law L. 2 (2011-2012) |
I. Introduction. 101 II. UNCLOS and the Establishment of an EEZ. 103 III. Sovereignty/Ownership of the Liancourt Rocks. 109 A. Territorial Acquisition under International Law. 109 1. Case Law. 110 a. Island of Palmas. 110 b. Clipperton Island. 112 c. Minquiers. 114 ... |
2012 |
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Ashby Carlton Davis |
Taking from the State and Giving to the Union: Dissolving Member State Sovereignty Through the Noble Goal of Establishing a Common Market |
21 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 207 (2011-2012) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3207 I. Origins. 209 II. Federalism, Supremacy, and Economic Regulatory Power. 210 A. Federalism. 210 B. The United States. 210 C. The European Union. 212 D. The Establishment of a European Common Market. 214 E. The Role of the Courts. 217 III. Preventing States from Obstructing Commerce or the... |
2012 |
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The Honorable Robert M. McDowell |
Technology and the Sovereignty of the Individual |
10 Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law 351 (2012) |
Introduction. 351 I. Communications Technologies Proliferate Faster After Liberalization. 352 II. Communications Technologies Produced by Liberal Democracies Are Helping to Create Liberal Democracies. 355 III. To Promote Freedom and Prosperity, Governments Should Preserve Liberalized Telecoms Policies. 359 |
2012 |
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Dimitry Kochenov |
The Application of Eu Law in the Eu's Overseas Regions, Countries, and Territories after the Entry into Force of the Treaty of Lisbon |
20 Michigan State International Law Review 669 (2012) |
Introduction and Structure. 669 I. Territorial Scope of the Treaties: Legal-Historical Analysis. 684 II. Outermost Regions in the EU Law of the Overseas. 693 A. Main principles of Article 349 TFEU. 696 B. Article 349 TFEU from a legal-historical perspective. 700 C. Article 349 TFEU as a source of derogations. 709 D. Examples of Derogations Enjoyed... |
2012 |
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Nicholas A. Fromherz |
The Case for a Global Treaty on Soil Conservation, Sustainable Farming, and the Preservation of Agrarian Culture |
39 Ecology Law Quarterly 57 (2012) |
Soil is the foundation of life, yet the international community has all but ignored it in conservation efforts and legal reforms. Right under our feet we are losing topsoil at rates that far outpace nature's ability to keep up. Erosion, salinization, desertification, nutrient depletion, contamination-- these and other threats have conspired to take... |
2012 |
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Kaila C. Randolph |
The Conflict Surrounding Universal Access to Hiv/aids Medical Treatment in South Africa |
19 Human Rights Brief 24 (Winter, 2012) |
Every individual has the human right to life, a principle found in every international human rights treaty, convention, and national constitution. Nonetheless, what can persons with HIV/AIDS do when their government denies them access to medical treatment? What can refugees do when they are denied health care, simply based on their identity as... |
2012 |
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Frank Pommersheim |
The Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Case: from Tradition to Modernity and Halfway Back |
57 South Dakota Law Review 42 (2012) |
Tasunke Witko, or Crazy Horse as he is known in English, is a revered nineteenth century warrior and spiritual leader of the Oglala Band of the Lakota (or Sioux) Nation. He is renowned for both his skills as a warrior and his high spiritual concern for the welfare of his people. He also often seems to stand apart as a mysterious, even mystical,... |
2012 |
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Brian S. Tomasovic |
The Fate of Treated Wood Infrastructure |
30 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 28 (2012) |
For more than a century, much of the physical infrastructure used for railway transport, energy, and telecommunications has benefited from the protection of a small group of industrial wood preservatives. In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), acting under statutory authority of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act... |
2012 |
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Christopher M. Humes |
The Long and Winding Road: State Sovereign Immunity's Effect on Gaming License Revocation for the Casino Debtor |
3 UNLV Gaming Law Journal 111 (Spring 2012) |
Once thought to be financial thoroughbreds, casinos are feeling the financial squeeze of the economic recession. Nevada gaming revenues declined 10.4 percent in 2009, setting the state record for the largest single-year decrease. Over $10 billion in development projects are on indefinite hiatus in Atlantic City, and more are postponed in Las Vegas.... |
2012 |
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Thomas E. Boudreau Ph.D. |
The Modern Law of Nations: Jus Gentium and the Role of Roman Jurisprudence in Shaping the Post World War Ii International Legal Order |
20 Digest, National Italian American Bar Association Law Journal L.J. 1 (2012) |
The operating axiom of this paper is that a new Law of Nations was created in international law due to the solemn promises made in good faith by the Allied powers during World War II to their own, neutral, conquered and colonial peoples of the world. By doing so, these solemn promises created fiduciary interests, duties and norms that were to be... |
2012 |
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