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Gulati, G. Mitu - 2017

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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Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Friedman, Eric; Buse, Kent; Waris, … - 2013

A global health treaty, a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) – grounded in the right to health, with the central goal of reducing immense domestic and global health inequities – could serve as a robust global governance instrument to underpin the United Nations post-2015 Millennium...

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Global Health and the Law

Gostin, Lawrence O. - 2014

influenzas, and maternal mortality. Given the rapid globalization that is a defining feature of today's world, the need for a …, and institutions designed primarily to attain the highest possible standard of physical and mental health for the world …'s population. Global health law is not an organized legal system, with a unified treaty monitoring body, such as the World Trade …

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'Why Do They Hate Us?...They Hate Our Freedoms' : The Globalisation of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

Saul, Ben - 2009

enabled by certain material characteristics of globalization (the movement of goods and people, transport, communications … of national norms to the international plane). The promise of globalization for countering terrorism is that it enables a …

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VAT/GST in a Global Digital Economy : Looking Ahead - Potential Solutions and the Framework to Make Them Work

Millar, Rebecca - 2016

This working paper gives a broad-sweep consideration to the future of VAT in a digital economy, focussing on four broad, interrelated questions: does anything need to be done, and if yes, who should do it, what should be done, and how should it be done? Noting the historical development of the...

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Conceptualizing Global Substantive Justice in the Age of Obama

Wing, Adrien K. - 2011

What would the United States look like if it stood on the side of peace and justice? In this keynote address, Adrien Wing advocates that it would have to support substantive justice. It must commit itself to respecting and using international law to further this type of justice. The United...

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Global Health Justice : A Perspective from the Global South on a Framework Convention on Global Health

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Dhai, Amaboo A. - 2012

A global coalition of civil society and academics recently launched the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (JALI), which is developing a post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework for global health. JALI’s mission is the achievement of...

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Business and Human Rights : From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back Again

Methven O'Brien, Claire; Ford, Jolyon - 2020

The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...

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Using Central Counterparties to Limit Global Financial Crises

Henkel, Christoph - 2020

Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...

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An Examination of Convergence and Resistance in Global Tax Reform Trends

James, Kathryn - 2011

The worldwide rise of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) over the last half-century is emblematic of the paradox in modern tax systems: their remarkable similarity in the face of divergent political, cultural and social systems. However efforts to introduce VAT-style taxes have frequently been...

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