[Excerpt] Dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is carried out under the WTO Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU).
In effect since January 1995, the DSU provides for consultations between disputing parties, panels and appeals, and possible retaliation if a defending party fails [...]
Trade unionists and human rights advocates started analysing antiunion tactics as violations of international human rights standards. They decided to reargue American labour
law on a human rights foundation ; Compa181_Coming_together.pdf: 35 downloads, before Oct. [...]
341 pages ; Increased reference to general principles of law (GPL) in international dispute settlement is hardly questioned in scholarship. Adjudicators, counsels, and diplomats
use them in different ways, including overruling explicit treaty provisions and making new law. [...]
While states admit a moral responsibility to take action against states that violate human rights and international criminal law, international law does not create any legally
binding obligations on states to prevent or punish violators of human rights. Yet, enshrining the “responsibility to protect” in international law will [...]
[Excerpt] Congress has comprehensively dealt with the legal effect of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and dispute settlement results in the United States in the Uruguay
Round Agreements Act (URAA), P.L. 103-465. The act provides that domestic law prevails over conflicting provisions of WTO agreements and prohibits private remedies [...]
[Excerpt] Dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is carried out under the WTO Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU).
In effect since January 1995, the DSU provides for consultations between disputing parties, panels and appeals, and possible retaliation if a defending party fails [...]
In the U.S., claims for asylum and other forms of human rights protection (Special Immigrant Juvenile status, withholding of removal, and relief under the Torture Convention)
are often won or lost on the facts, not the law. When I taught refugee law in the classroom, my students and I focused on developing cutting-edge legal arguments. [...]
The US government’s separation of children and parents at the Mexican border has sparked disbelief around the world. But as Alexandra Dufresne explains, the separation of
parents and children has been a part of US immigration law for a long time. [...]
In this paper, I examine how the legal contestations among the descendants of the prominent nineteenth century Straits Chinese merchant Tan Kim Seng show that a family’s
unity is hard to maintain and even harder to perpetrate across generations. By drafting out a legal will that incorporated clear instructions on how his personal [...]
This essay uses the United States Supreme Court second decision in Sackett v. EPA, or Sackett (II), to stress the obvious: judges are tasked with decoding the nation’s laws
for everyone’s understanding. This judiciary duty is heightened when judges encounter ordinary sounding words, such as “water” or “wetlands,” especially [...]
