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From Paradox to Subsidiarity : The United States and Human Rights Treaty Bodies

Melish, Tara J. - 2015

international human rights law's subsidiarity principle allow the U.S. to pursue a framework policy toward treaty body engagement … importance of giving the principle of subsidiarity its full and intended meaning in international human rights law. The piece … domestic decision-making processes. The challenge for domestic advocates is to ensure that this subsidiarity principle is …

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The 99% Solution : Human Rights and Economic Justice in the United States

Thomas, Dorothy - 2013

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...

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An Empirical Study of the Implementation in the United States of the Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency

Westbrook, Jay Lawrence - 2018

International insolvency proceedings uniquely require coordination among a number of national courts to preserve the value of multinational corporations that have become financially distressed. The Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency provides a structure for recognition of foreign insolvency...

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Judicial Cooperation between the United States and Europe in Civil and Commercial Matters : An Overview of Issues

Hatzimihail, Nikitas - 2013

Written in 2003-2004 as an early contribution to an EU-funded interuniversity project on the judicial cooperation in civil matters between the European Union's Member States and third countries, this article constitutes a concept paper providing a general overview of issues that are of interest,...

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The Role of the U.S. Courts in the Transnational Flow of Funds

Hoffman, John - 2014

This Article discusses the so-called "debt crisis" from the perspective of two litigators. They normally advise participants in these matters to stay away from the courts if at all possible. The authors' experience in large-scale international financial tangles reveals that litigation can be...

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Resolving UN Torts in US Courts : Georges v United Nations

Anthony, Dr Dorothea - 2023

This article concerns the recent case of Georges v United Nations, which constitutes, to date, the most elaborate public law challenge to the principle of UN immunity from suit and private law attempt at procuring compensation from the UN for alleged malfeasance. Despite the fact that it relates...

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Private International Law Bibliography 2013 : U.S. And Foreign Sources in English

Symeonides, Symeon - 2014

This bibliography covers private international law, or conflict of laws, in a broad sense. In particular, it covers judicial or adjudicatory jurisdiction, prescriptive jurisdiction, choice of forum, choice of law, federal-state conflicts, recognition and enforcement of sister-state and...

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Transnational Liability in U.S. Courts for Environmental Harms Abroad

Hester, Tracy - 2021

Modern energy and natural resource development has always been, at heart, a global enterprise. Energy companies and developers, by necessity, frequently work in far-flung locations scattered among nations with vastly different legal systems and environmental regulatory systems. If one of their...

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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 7 July 2016

We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...

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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - First draft: 7 July 2016

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