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The Right to Development : A Binding Source of International Law or a Needless, Non-Enforceable, Right to Everything?

Leeuw, Emerald - 2013

A review of the scope, legality and enforceability This article aims to provide the reader with a critical analysis of the scope, legality and enforceability of The Right to Development the (RTD), more precisely of “the right to a process of development in which all rights and fundamental...

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Customary International Law and the Shifting Patterns of Refugee Migration

Worster, William Thomas - 2022

more than fifteen percent of all of the asylum-seekers in the world to one of the most largest source countries for people … now care for millions. These changes mean that large percentages of the world’s asylum-seekers are now being protected by …

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International Franchise Trademark Registration : Legal Regimes, Costs, and Consequences

Emerson, Robert W. - 2017

For many years, the rise in number of international units operated by U.S. franchisors has outpaced domestic growth. As the trend toward globalization accelerates, franchise owners must determine the most effective methods to protect their intellectual property rights wherever they do business....

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Funding Global Health

Smyth, Sophie E.; Triponel, Anna - 2013

Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations...

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Patent Law, HIPPO, and the Biodiversity Crisis

Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014

Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to the survival and prosperity of humanity, supplying such vital amenities as food, clothing, shelter, natural biochemicals useful in medicine, industry, and agriculture, and...

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International Tax Implications of Cloud Computing

Koukoulioti, Vasiliki; Reed, Chris - 2022

The current tax laws are based heavily on concepts of physical geography, such as controlling premises and physical equipment or employing staff in the jurisdiction. The geographical concepts do not accommodate the cloud business model in any sensible way. As a consequence, the taxation of cloud...

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Public and Private Regulations for the Governance of the Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrates

Partain, Roy Andrew - 2016

The commercial development of offshore methane hydrates will necessitate planning for accidental risk. Due to the unique risks and hazards associated with the development of offshore methane hydrates, it is unlikely that their development would be capable of beginning without some form of ex...

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The Application of Civil Liability for the Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrates

Partain, Roy Andrew - 2015

A potentially huge untapped resource of natural gas exists just offshore almost every coastal state in the world, the …

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …

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Assuming Away the Problem : The Vexing Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Protection

Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2012

What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...

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