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This paper provides a recent look at global smoking trends across population subgroups for a large sample of countries …. Attention to international aspects has been scarce in the literature. The prevalence of various smoking control policies across … population appear to be crucial determinants of smoking prevalence. Among four categories of smoking control policies …
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While only several decades ago, the idea of corporate social responsibility was not trivial, it seems that most scholars today understand that corporations owe special commitments to their stakeholders which go beyond common regulatory and conventional requirements in promoting the community in...
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Discussion of the territorial scope of the New Zealand Wages Protection Act in Mehta v Elliot (Labour Inspector). The authors argue that the territorial scope of all New Zealand statutes should be addressed by Parliament as a matter of course. As Judge Colgan pointed out in Mehta, this issue...
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Globalization has led to union decline almost universally across the world's capitalist democracies. But despite globalization, global labor unions have been able to sign International Framework Agreements (“IFAs”) with more than 110 multinational corporations that cover about 9 million...
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During the explosive growth of the Internet in the 1990s, encryption was quite likely the single most passionate area of legal and policy debate. Law enforcement and national security agencies supported limits on the export of strong encryption, fearing that encryption would block their ability...
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The election of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency coincided with the US adoption of an “America First” policy in trade. This policy reflects an underlying theory of economic nationalism that is fundamentally at odds with the current approach of the multilateral trading system established...
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The past few decades have witnessed the growth of an exciting debate in the legal academy about the tensions between economic pressures to commodify and philosophical commitments to the market inalienability of certain items. Sex, organs, babies and college athletics are among the many topics...
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This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...
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