Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
Alina M. Perez , Kathy L. Cerminara |
La Caja De Pandora: Improving Access to Hospice Care among Hispanic and African-american Patients |
10 Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy 255 (Spring 2010) |
It has been said that end-of-life medical treatment options represent the ultimate Pandora's Box. This metaphor depicts the process most patients face upon learning they are facing terminal illnesses. Many patients, when first learning about their diagnoses and prognoses, will seek more information about the illness and try every available... |
2010 |
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Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law and History Department |
Lauren Benton, a Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 356. $25.99 Paper (Isbn 978-0-521-70743-5); $85.00 Cloth (Isbn 978-0-521-88105-0). Doi: 10.1017/s0738248010001008 |
28 Law and History Review 1113 (November, 2010) |
Lauren Benton's deeply imaginative monograph rethinks the relationship between law, geography, and jurisdictional politics in European overseas empires. A Search for Sovereignty takes a global approach, ranging widely over the French, Portuguese, and especially the Spanish and British empires between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. She... |
2010 |
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Matthew McKinney, Ph.D. , Lorie Baker, April M. Buvel, Andy Fischer, Dana Foster, Christine Paulu |
Managing Transboundary Natural Resources: an Assessment of the Need to Revise and Update the Columbia River Treaty |
16 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law, Policy 307 (Summer 2010) |
I. Introduction. 308 A. Historical Perspective. 308 B. Purpose and Methods. 311 II. Performance to Date. 312 A. What is Working?. 312 B. Drivers of Change. 313 1. Ecosystem Health. 313 2. Expectations for Public Participation. 314 3. Tribal Rights. 315 4. Population Growth. 317 5. Climate Change. 318 6. Recreation. 318 III. Prospects for the... |
2010 |
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Captain Robert D. Hodges |
Medical Treatment for Foreign Nationals: Another Coin of the Realm |
2010-MAY Army Lawyer 52 (May, 2010) |
While judge advocates practicing administrative law in a deployed environment share many of the processes and problems familiar to their CONUS colleagues, several topics do not have corollaries in garrison. While advising investigating officers and providing miscellaneous legal advice are the bread and butter of a deployed administrative law shop,... |
2010 |
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Eugenia Pyntikova |
Mental Illness in Immigration Detention Facilities: Searching for the Rights to Receive & Refuse Treatment |
25 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 151 (Fall, 2010) |
This note argues that the rights for mentally disabled migrants in the US to a) receive essential treatment and b) refuse treatment deemed necessary by immigration authorities in immigration detention are insufficiently robust, especially given that such detention is administrative and not criminal. Although these rights are explicitly stated in... |
2010 |
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John Witte, Jr. |
Natural Rights, Popular Sovereignty, and Covenant Politics: Johannes Althusius and the Dutch Revolt and Republic |
87 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 565 (Summer 2010) |
I. The Dutch Revolt. 566 II. The Work of Johannes Althusius. 573 III. Natural Law, Common Law, and Positive Law. 578 IV. Religious and Social Rights and Liberties. 591 A. Religious Rights and Liberties. 592 B. Social Rights and Liberties. 597 V. Society and Politics. 602 A. Private Associations. 605 B. Political Associations. 608 C. Church and... |
2010 |
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Sofia Moratti, J.D., D.Phil. |
Non-treatment Decisions on Grounds of "Medical Futility" and "Quality of Life": Interviews with Fourteen Dutch Neonatologists |
26 Issues in Law and Medicine Med. 3 (2010) |
ABSTRACT: This essay opens with background information about the concept of medical futility and the regulation of non-treatment decisions in Dutch neonatology. The regulations include a list of criteria for predicting the baby's future quality of life. The second part presents the findings from interviews with fourteen Dutch neonatologists on... |
2010 |
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Barry A. Fisher |
Notes from the World War Ii Redress Trenches: the Disparate Treatment of Victims East and West |
32 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 95 (Winter 2010) |
As the twentieth century ended, Japan's former wartime allies, Germany and Austria, along with the principal Swiss banks, made efforts to close the historical book on their stained pasts. They settled the remaining claims of Holocaust victims for some $7 billion, with acknowledgments and apologies for their past misdeeds. These settlements were the... |
2010 |
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Bonnie A. Malloy |
On Thin Ice: How a Binding Treaty Regime Can Save the Arctic |
16 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law, Policy 471 (Summer 2010) |
I. Introduction. 472 II. The Weather Stations of the World. 475 A. The Arctic Environment. 475 B. Antarctica's Environment. 478 III. Existing Legal Framework. 481 A. The Legal Regime in the Arctic. 481 1. Jurisdiction and Sovereignty. 482 2. Fisheries Management, Pollution, and Environmental Protection. 484 B. The Legal Regime in the Antarctic. 488... |
2010 |
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Katy Lum |
One Fish, Two Fish: Suggestions for the Treatment of Hatchery Fish under the Endangered Species Act |
37 Ecology Law Quarterly 561 (2010) |
Although conservation groups and fishing industries alike have relied on salmon hatcheries to slow the dramatic decline in salmon and steelhead species since the nineteenth century, the proper place of hatchery-raised salmon under the Endangered Species Act remains uncertain. When the hatchery and wild fish intermix, genetic and behavioral... |
2010 |
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Sarah E. Heck , Mary J. Hoeller , Attorney at Law, Brownsburg, Ind., sarah@sarahhecklaw.com, Attorney at Law, Indianapolis, Ind., mary@attorneyhoeller.com |
Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment -- the New Living Will? |
53-APR Res Gestae 40 (April, 2010) |
For years attorneys have included health care advanced directives (commonly called living wills) in their standard package of estate planning documents offered to clients. The effectiveness of living wills is now being questioned by some attorneys, who argue that they are rarely enforced, do little to affect patient care, and can even be... |
2010 |
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Carrie R. Woolley |
Piracy and Sovereign Rights: Addressing Piracy in the Straits of Malacca Without Degrading the Sovereign Rights of Indonesia and Malaysia. |
8 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 447 (2010) |
In 1958, the international community convened to address legal issues concerning the high seas, including piracy, at the Geneva Convention on the High Seas. The Geneva Convention provided the foundation for the definition of piracy found in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). UNCLOS codified customary international... |
2010 |
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Ryan T. Mrazik, Andrew I. Schoenholtz , Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University |
Protecting and Promoting the Human Right to Respect for Family Life: Treaty-based Reform and Domestic Advocacy |
24 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 651 (Summer, 2010) |
This article examines the right to respect for family life in international law, focusing on its underlying principles and explicit protections. The article identifies these legal norms so that drafters of international treaties, specifically the International Migrants Bill of Rights, and United States legal practitioners representing immigrant... |
2010 |
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Lee C. Buchheit , G. Mitu Gulati |
Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing |
73-FALL Law and Contemporary Problems 63 (Fall 2010) |
I. Introduction. 64 A. Sovereign Debt and the Law. 65 B. The Current Debate. 66 1. Emotive Issues. 66 2. Prosaic Issues. 68 II. Unique Features of Sovereign Debt. 69 A. Intergenerational Tensions. 69 B. Government Officials as Agents. 70 C. Mixed Motivations of Certain Lenders. 71 D. The Absence of a Formal Bankruptcy Mechanism. 72 E. The Sovereign... |
2010 |
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Erika M. Lopes |
Seeking Accountability and Justice for Torture Victims: the Hurdle of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in Suing Foreign Officials under the Torture Victims Protection Act |
6 Seton Hall Circuit Review 389 (Spring, 2010) |
I. L2-3,T3Introduction 390. II. L2-3,T3The Development of the Sovereign Immunity Doctrine and its Codification by the FSIA 395. A. Nineteenth Century Origins of the Concept of Sovereign Immunity in The Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon. 396 B. The Supreme Court's Move From Absolute Immunity to Restrictive Immunity in the Twentieth Century. 398 C. The... |
2010 |
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Hanna Chung |
Smaller Exchanges, Larger Regimes: How Trading in Small, Interdependent Units Affects Treaty Stability |
10 Chicago Journal of International Law 825 (Winter 2010) |
Suppose two parties desire to divide a $300 prize equally, but only have $100 bills at their disposal. As long as the unit of exchange remains too large for equal division, the two parties seem destined for an uneven and uneasy agreement. The solution seems simple: exchange the $100 bills for $50 bills, so that the unit of exchange is small enough... |
2010 |
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Christina A. Hoefsmit |
Southern Ocean Shakeup: Establishing Sovereignty in Antarctica and the Consequences for Fishery Management |
15 Roger Williams University Law Review 547 (Summer 2010) |
Celebrating its 50 anniversary in 2009, the Antarctic Treaty has been hailed as a successful model of international cooperation. Such praise primarily stems from the continued cooperative governance of Antarctica for peaceful and scientific purposes, largely preventing Antarctica's disputed territorial claims from escalating into an international... |
2010 |
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Larry Catá Backer |
Sovereign Investing in Times of Crisis: Global Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds, State-owned Enterprises, and the Chinese Experience |
19 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems Probs. 3 (Winter 2010) |
I. Introduction. 5 II. Projections of Public Economic Power in Private Form: Contextualizing SWFs in Form, Function, and Policy. 24 A. The Formalist Definition of the Operations of SWFs. 27 B. Function in Sovereign Investing. 34 1. Libya. 35 2. Singapore. 37 3. Norway. 39 4. United Arab Emirates. 43 5. Russia. 45 6. Brazil. 46 7. Form and Function... |
2010 |
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Rumu Sarkar |
Sovereign Wealth Funds as a Development Tool for Asean Nations: from Social Wealth to Social Responsibility |
41 Georgetown Journal of International Law 621 (Spring, 2010) |
While sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have existed since the 1950s, their significance and importance in economic, political, and policy terms have increased exponentially in the past decade or so. Ironically, though, it may be argued that the development aspects of SWFs have been a missing dimension from the latest rounds of analysis and scrutiny.... |
2010 |
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Larry Catá Backer |
Sovereign Wealth Funds as Regulatory Chameleons: the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Global Governance Through Private Global Investment |
41 Georgetown Journal of International Law 425 (Winter, 2010) |
I. Introduction. 425 II. Conceptual and Regulatory Framework: Public Actors and Private Action. 436 III. The Norway Sovereign Wealth Funds. 450 A. History. 450 B. Legal Structure. 453 C. Investment Principles. 456 IV. The Norway Funds in Action: Private and Participatory or Public and Regulatory?. 463 A. Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics.... |
2010 |
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Donald L. Doernberg |
Sovereignty in the Age of Twitter |
55 Villanova Law Review 833 (2010) |
Secrecy begets tyranny. [N]am et ipsa scientia potestas est. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. THE assignment given to symposium participants was simply to examine some aspect of sovereignty. My colleagues focused their presentations on various aspects of Native American tribal sovereignty interacting with that asserted... |
2010 |
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Isaac Wayne Burkhart |
Sovereignty Showdown in Big Sky Country (And Beyond): the Montana Firearms Freedom Act |
37 Northern Kentucky Law Review 163 (2010) |
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. On April 15, 2009, Montana's staunchly pro-gun governor, Brian Schweitzer (D), signed into law House Bill 246, the Montana Firearms Freedom Act (hereinafter the Act or FFA). The Act... |
2010 |
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Allison M. Dussias |
Spirit Food and Sovereignty: Pathways for Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Subsistence Rights |
58 Cleveland State Law Review 273 (2010) |
The right of taking fish at usual and accustomed grounds and stations is further secured to said Indians . . . together with the privilege of hunting and gathering roots and berries . . . . -Treaty of Point No Point, 1855 Water is the life-supporting blood of Mother Earth that human beings share in common with all living things. -Sokaogon Chippewa... |
2010 |
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Collette L. Adkins Giese |
Spreading its Wings: Using the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to Protect Habitat |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 1157 (2010) |
I. The MBTA's Enactment, Major Provisions, and Modest Evolution. 1160 A. Congress Passed the MBTA in Response to a Decline in Migratory Birds. 1160 B. The MBTA's Simple Mandate Has Remained Almost Unchanged Since Enactment. 1161 II. Courts Disagree About Whether the MBTA Applies to Habitat Destruction. 1164 A. Several Courts Hold That the MBTA... |
2010 |
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Stephen I. Vladeck |
State Sovereign Immunity and the Roberts Court |
5 Charleston Law Review 99 (Fall 2010) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 99 II. THE SUPREME COURT AND STATE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY TO 2006. 107 A. Chisholm, the Eleventh Amendment, Jumel, and Hans. 107 B. Officer Suits and Ex parte Young. 110 C. The Rehnquist Court and Ex parte Young. 113 D. The Rehnquist Court and Congress's Abrogation Power. 116 E. Verizon and Katz: Two Chinks in the Federalism Armor?.... |
2010 |
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Nandang Sutrisno |
Substantive Justice Formulated, Implemented, and Enforced as Formal and Procedural Justice: a Lesson from Wto Special and Differential Treatment Provisions for Developing Countries |
13 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 671 (Spring 2010) |
In accommodating the interests of developing country Members, the World Trade Organization (WTO) provided for approximately 145 Special and Differential Treatment (S&D) provisions, scattered throughout the WTO Agreements. These provisions give special rights and privileges to WTO developing country Members and not to developed country Members.... |
2010 |
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Andrew P. Tuck |
The "Fair and Equitable Treatment" Standard Pursuant to the Investment Provisions of the U.s. Free Trade Agreements with Peru, Colombia and Panama |
16 Law & Business Review of the Americas 385 (Summer 2010) |
RECENTLY, foreign investors have brought actions against the United States pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11 investor-state dispute mechanism, causing the United States to become the first capital-exporting state to break with investors' interests. The United States is evaluating foreign investment law both... |
2010 |
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David B. Kopel , Paul Gallant , Joanne D. Eisen |
The Arms Trade Treaty: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Prospects for Arms Embargoes on Human Rights Violators |
114 Penn State Law Review 891 (Winter, 2010) |
Abstract: Advocates of the proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) promise that it will prevent the flow of arms to human rights violators. This Article first examines the ATT and observes that the ATT, if implemented as promised, would require dozens of additional arms embargoes, including embargoes on much of Africa. The Article then... |
2010 |
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William Ewald |
The Complexity of Sources of Trans-national Law: United States Report |
58 American Journal of Comparative Law 59 (2010) |
This Article sketches the ways in which the U.S. legal system addresses the multiplicity of sources of law, both domestic and international. How should a legal system deal with the problem of the proliferation of trans-national sources of law? This issue has recently provoked a great deal of discussion in Europe, and for good reason. The recent... |
2010 |
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Athanasios Yupsanis |
The Concept and Categories of Cultural Rights in International Law -- Their Broad Sense and the Relevant Clauses of the International Human Rights Treaties |
37 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 207 (Spring 2010) |
Each culture has a dignity and value which must be respected and preserved. All individuals and groups have the right to be different, to consider themselves as different and to be regarded as such. 1. Introduction. According to the International Bill of Human Rights, which consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (hereinafter... |
2010 |
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Hiroshi Fukurai, Ph.D. , Richard Krooth, Ph.D., J.D. |
The Establishment of All-citizen Juries as a Key Component of Mexico's Judicial Reform: Cross-national Analyses of Lay Judge Participation and the Search for Mexico's Judicial Sovereignty |
16 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 37 (Spring 2010) |
I. Introduction. 39 II. Part I. The Democratic Foundation of Lay Participation in Law. 41 III. Part II. Jury Trials in Mexico: Historical Background and Reinstatement. 44 A. Jury Trials in the 19 Century Mexico. 45 B. Jury Trials in the Federal District. 48 IV. Part III. The System of Lay Participation in Legal Institutions in the U.S., Japan,... |
2010 |
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Gregory C. Sisk |
The Inevitability of Federal Sovereign Immunity |
55 Villanova Law Review 899 (2010) |
OUR nation was founded more than two hundred years ago through a popular revolution against a sovereign monarch. Having forsaken reverence for the British Crown, [u]nder our system the people, who are there called subjects, are sovereign. In the past half-century, avenues for litigation have expanded, along with more frequent invocation of rights... |
2010 |
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Pouya Bavafa |
The Intentional Targeting Test: a Necessary Alternative to the Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact Analyses in Property Rentals Discrimination |
43 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 491 (Summer, 2010) |
This Note addresses when a landlord exclusively rents to particular minority groups intending to profit from substandard apartment conditions and services. Because there is no similarly situated group of non-minority tenants with whom they can compare their treatment by the landlord, targeted tenants cannot successfully make a claim of... |
2010 |
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Meredith Flowe |
The International Market for Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation: Analyzing Current Treatment of Supply and Demand |
35 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 669 (Spring, 2010) |
I. An Introduction to Human Trafficking for Forced Prostitution. 671 A. What is Human Trafficking?. 671 B. The Scope of the Problem. 673 C. Profile: Victims. 675 D. Victim's Burden: Physical and Psychological Harm. 676 E. Profile: Traffickers. 678 F. Supply and Demand: The Push and Pull Factors of Human Trafficking. 679 II. Current Anti-Trafficking... |
2010 |
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Michael J. Kelly |
The Kurdish Regional Constitution Within the Framework of the Iraqi Federal Constitution: a Struggle for Sovereignty, Oil, Ethnic Identity, and the Prospects for a Reverse Supremacy Clause |
114 Penn State Law Review 707 (Winter, 2010) |
-- Ancient Kurdish proverb Introduction. 708 I. The Kurds: A Stateless People. 710 A. Iraqi Kurdistan. 719 B. Stability from Political Equilibrium. 720 II. Kurdish Autonomy Under the Iraqi Federal Constitution. 726 III. The Kurdish Regional Constitution. |
2010 |
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Natasha Affolder |
The Market for Treaties |
11 Chicago Journal of International Law 159 (Summer 2010) |
Corporations are consumers of treaty law. In this Article, I empirically examine three biodiversity treaty regimes--the Convention on Biological Diversity, Ramsar Convention, and World Heritage Convention--to demonstrate that corporations implement or internalize treaty norms in a variety of ways that are not captured by the dominant model of... |
2010 |
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David S. Jonas , Thomas N. Saunders |
The Object and Purpose of a Treaty: Three Interpretive Methods |
43 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 565 (May, 2010) |
This Article examines the three most prominent uses of the term object and purpose within the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and, in each instance, offers a new method for applying the term. First, the rule that a treaty be interpreted in light of its object and purpose requires a process of interpretation that oscillates between a... |
2010 |
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William Magnuson |
The Responsibility to Protect and the Decline of Sovereignty: Free Speech Protection under International Law |
43 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 255 (March, 2010) |
State sovereignty has long held a revered post in international law, but it received a blow in the aftermath of World War II, when the world realized the full extent of atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis on their own citizens. In the postwar period, the idea that individuals possessed rights independent of their own states gained a foothold in... |
2010 |
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Isabel C. Jaramillo |
The Social Approach to Family Law: Conclusions from the Canonical Family Law Treatises of Latin America |
58 American Journal of Comparative Law 843 (Fall 2010) |
This Essay identifies a set of epistemological and normative assumptions underlying the presentation of doctrines on marriage and parent/child relationship law in the canonical family law treatises of Latin America. I refer to this set of premises as the social approach to family law and argue that this approach has a distinctive impact on the... |
2010 |
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Suzanne Siu |
The Sovereign-commercial Hybrid: Chinese Minerals for Infrastructure Financing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
48 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 599 (2010) |
This Note examines the legal aspects of an important but inadequately scrutinized development: the Sino-Congolese minerals-for-infrastructure investment deal. While the Sino-Congolese deal is somewhat sui generis, it bears the hallmarks of a breed of investment agreements used increasingly by China and other sovereign states for the Angola mode... |
2010 |
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Stephen R. McAllister |
The Supreme Court's Treatment of Sovereigns as Amici Curiae |
13 Green Bag 289 (Spring, 2010) |
THE SUPREME COURT'S RULE on briefs of amici curiae does not treat all sovereigns the same. In particular, Indian Tribes and foreign nations are treated less generously than the United States, any State or territory, and even local governments. This article explores the origin of this disparate treatment and comments on its propriety. Current... |
2010 |
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Stephen R. McAllister |
The Supreme Court's Treatment of Sovereigns as Amici Curiae |
13 Green Bag 289 (Spring, 2010) |
THE SUPREME COURT'S RULE on briefs of amici curiae does not treat all sovereigns the same. In particular, Indian Tribes and foreign nations are treated less generously than the United States, any State or territory, and even local governments. This article explores the origin of this disparate treatment and comments on its propriety. Current... |
2010 |
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Tom C. Hodge |
The Treatment of Employees as Stakeholders in the European Union: Current and Future Trends |
38 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 91 (Fall 2010) |
I. Abstract. 92 II. Introduction. 92 III. What is corporate governance?. 94 IV. Corporate Governance Models: Shareholder v. Stakeholder. 95 A. Convergence or Path Dependence. 95 B. The Shareholder-Primacy Model and the Stakeholder-Pluralist Model. 102 C. The Third Way: Enlightened Shareholder Value. 111 V. Employees as Stakeholders. 114 A.... |
2010 |
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Vincent J. Samar |
The Treaty Power and the Supremacy Clause: Rethinking Reid v. Covert in a Global Context |
36 Ohio Northern University Law Review 287 (2010) |
In this article I want to consider whether the authority of the United States to enter into treaties in a global environment is limited by constitutional constraints. The issue arises because a reasonable interpretation of the language of Article VI would place the treaty power on the same status-footing as the Constitution of the United States.... |
2010 |
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Angela M. Banks |
The Trouble with Treaties: Immigration and Judicial Review |
84 Saint John's Law Review 1219 (Fall 2010) |
Human rights activists describe United States deportation law and policy as draconian and unjust. These activists are not alone; outrage by everyday people is expressed in response to stories like that of Mary Anne Gehris. Mary Anne Gehris immigrated to the United States at eighteen months old and has lived in the South ever since. She married, had... |
2010 |
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Seth Korman |
The Welfarist Approach to Human Rights Treaties: a Critique |
58 UCLA Law Review Discourse 95 (2010) |
This Essay provides analysis and some criticism of the argument that international human rights treaties should focus more on development and welfare and less on basic negative rights. It argues that welfarist treaties that completely ignore human rights concerns will in theory harm heterogeneous societies with significant minority populations.... |
2010 |
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David B. Thronson |
Thinking Small: the Need for Big Changes in Immigration Law's Treatment of Children |
14 U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy 239 (Summer 2010) |
Introduction. 240 I. Children Impacted by Migration. 241 A. Children as Migrants and Children of Migrants. 241 B. Mixed Status Families and the Challenge of Immigration Reform. 244 II. The Unacceptability of the Status Quo. 245 III. Immigration Law's Devaluation of Children. 250 IV. Emerging Exceptions to the Rule. 256 A. A New World - T and U... |
2010 |
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Barbara Cosens |
Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty: Resilience Theory and the Columbia River Treaty |
30 Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law 229 (2010) |
University of Idaho College of Law, Waters of the West To come to terms with the Columbia, we need to come to terms with it as a whole, as an organic machine, not only as a reflection of our own social divisions but as the site in which these divisions play out. If the conversation is not about fish and justice, about electricity and ways of life,... |
2010 |
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Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary, University of London |
Treaty Interpretation. By Richard Gardiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, Pp. Xxi, 407. Index. $180, £84.95, Cloth; £24,99, Paper. On the Interpretation of Treaties: the Modern International Law as Expressed in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the L |
104 American Journal of International Law 329 (April, 2010) |
Treaty interpretation may not appear to be a subject likely to ignite academic discussions, but these two books--Treaty Interpretation by Richard Gardiner of University College London and On the Interpretation of Treaties by Ulf Linderfalk of Lund University (Sweden)--demonstrate that nothing could be farther from the truth. The authors' approaches... |
2010 |
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Sara Fargnoli, Rebecca Feinberg, Adriane Turnipseed |
Trend Toward Equality? A Comparative Analysis of the Treatment of Noncitizen Veterans in the Administration of Post-service Benefits |
2 Veterans Law Review 261 (2010) |
Throughout history, and particularly during times of conflict, nations have enlisted foreigners in their military forces to fight alongside their own citizens. These noncitizen veterans fought and shed blood along with citizen veterans, sacrificing for a nation that was not their own. Historically, these veterans have been given little recognition... |
2010 |
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