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In Philippines - Distilled Spirits, the Appellate Body of the WTO reaffirmed that the determination of 'likeness' in the GATT should be about the competitive relationship between products. A coherent methodology for the determination of 'likeness' has finally begun to emerge, with the same...
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The proper constitution of an Arbitral Tribunal will determine the validity and enforceability of an award. This paper deals with the different problematics that multi arbitrator tribunals, in specific those panels formed under the scheme of party appointed arbitrators can face during the...
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organizational form of large-scale international investment projects all over the World. In view of significant amount of their …
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The positive theory of litigation predicts that under certain conditions plaintiffs and defendants achieve an unremarkable and roughly equivalent share of litigation success. This article, grounded in an empirical analysis of WTO adjudication from 1995 through 2007, reveals a high disparity...
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The principle of subsidiarity – whereby a power said to be shared between the European Union and its Member States is … widely discussed. The legal valence of the subsidiarity principle has been criticized for emphasizing its political valence …. However, this approach lacks the power to explain both the weight of the principle of subsidiarity in the EU Treaties and the …
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In Bush v. Gore (2000), the U.S. Supreme Court stopped Florida's recount process as a violation of the Equal Protection clause, resulting in a victory for Texas Governor George W. Bush. The Court's legal reasoning did not deter the public's sense that our right to vote - at least in the sense of...
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So far, EU treaty law does not encapsulate any individually justiciable rights to a clean environment or to health. Th e article explores whether individuals can rely on the environmental duties embodied in the European Union Charter of Human Rights (EUCHR), and the European Convention on Human...
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Zipf’s law for city populations is a well-known statement regarding the proportions between the most populous cities of a given area, first mentioned by German physicist Felix Auerbach (Auerbach 1913, Zipf 1949, Simon 1955). Many observers, including Paul Krugman, have held Zipf’s law to be...
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