Our story always seems to pit the good guys against the bad guys:the founding fathers versus the evil empire, man versus machine, Main Street versus Wall Street, the ninety-nine percent versus the one percent. Nobody, including those of us who struggle to realize human rights in the United...

The global movement towards the adoption of corporate human rights due diligence laws is gaining momentum. Starting in France, moving to the Netherlands, and now at the European Union level, lawmakers across Europe are accepting the need to legislate to require that companies conduct human...

It is frequently said that the United States has a paradoxical human rights policy. This Article takes a closer look at this vision from the perspective of U.S. engagement with international human rights treaty bodies, the quasi-adjudicatory expert committees or commissions that exercise...

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

My discussion of these issues begins with a brief survey of how the disasters unfolded in Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea and how the IMF and other international financial institutions responded. Then I evaluate (in part III) a central element of the IMF "conditionality" that attached to the...

This article briefly notes that President Obama announced on September 11, 2009 that the United States would impose extra taxes on certain rubber tires imported from the People's Republic of China because the high volume of imports would adversely affect domestic production. The President had...