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Human Rights and Multilateral Trade : A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding the Linkages
Kanade, Mihir - 2013
The linkages between human rights and multilateral trade have been a subject of considerable debate in the last decade or so. The emergence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 as the nodal agency for multilateral trade in goods and services led to its intrusion into many issues that...
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Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration : Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights
McSherry, Bernadette M. - 2010
The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative', patriarchal society. This paper explores the tensions...
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Arbitrability of Intellectual Property Rights Validity Disputes
Dhingra, Jayems - 2021
Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”) can be regarded as an incentive for an inventor or an author, granted or recognized by a state. IPR are enforceable erga omnes within the boundaries of the state. Member States of the Paris Convention Union and other relevant conventions are expected to...
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Transnational Human Rights Litigation and Territorialized Knowledge : Kiobel and the ‘Politics of Space’
Liste, Philip - 2014
In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Dutch and British private corporations were accused of having aided and abetted in the violation of the human rights of individuals in Nigeria. A lawsuit, however, was brought in the United States, relying on the Alien Tort Statute – part of a Judiciary Act...
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MFN Status, Trade Embargoes, Sanctions and Blockades : An Examination of Some Overlooked Property, Contract and Other Human Rights Issues
McGee, Robert W. - 1998
Most Favored Nation (MFN) status, trade embargoes and blockades have traditionally been used to entice nations to alter their behavior or to punish them for certain behavior. The intentions behind these policies are generally noble, at least on the surface. However, instituting these policies...
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Alternative Dispute Revolution : Technology and ADR in the Middle East Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Calo, Zachary R.; Solaiman, Barry - 2022
This article seeks to close a gap in the literature on the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the Middle East. In particular, it examines unprecedented developments in countries situated in the Persian Gulf where a range of innovative institutions outside the domestic court system...
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Applying Foreign Law Under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency
Ho, Look Chan - 2010
The UK Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (CBIR) permits discretionary relief in the form of applying foreign insolvency law. There is no convincing common-law objection to the application of foreign law.The ability to apply foreign law pursuant to the CBIR is consistent with Chapter 15 of...
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The political economy of terrorism, counterterrorism, and the war on terror
Rathbone, Anne; Coyne, Christopher J.; Hall, Abigail R. - 2023
This text provides an assessment of the U.S. government's war on terror. It discusses the origins of the war, discuss whether it can be judged a success or failure, and consider some of the main effects both abroad and within the United States. It concludes with a discussion of several areas for...
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Terrorism: rationality, externalities, and policy
Sandler, Todd; Gaibulloev, Khusrav - In: Journal of public finance and public choice : JPFPC 30 (2012) 1/3, pp. 17-38
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Chapter 26 Terrorism: An Empirical Analysis
Enders, Walter - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 815-866). 2007
The chapter surveys the empirical literature concerning the measurement of terrorism, effectiveness of counterterrorism … policies, the economic consequences of terrorism, and the economic causes of terrorism. In Section 2, terrorist incidents are … grouped according to incident type, victim, and location. It is shown that terrorism began a steady decline in all regions …
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