Recently added articles from Denver Journal of International Law and Policy:
Cautiously optimistic: economic liberalization and reconciliation in Rwanda's coffee sector.
Mar 22, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION In some countries, particular industries play especially important roles. In the United States, for example, the automotive industry has provided hundreds of thousands of jobs and helped shape the image of America as the land of the automobile. (1) More recently, ...
Foreign direct investment, trade, and China's competition laws.
Mar 22, 2009; ... "Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference. As long as it catches mice, it is a good cat." Deng Xiaoping I. INTRODUCTION The People's Republic of China, or the PRC, known more widely simply as China, holds nearly one-sixth of the world's population. It ...
Counter-terrorism and human rights: the emergence of a rule of customary int'l law from U.N. resolutions.
Mar 22, 2009; ... In response to the global threat of international terrorism and the counterterrorism efforts by national governments, the United Nations General Assembly (G.A.) and the United Nations Security Council (S.C.) have adopted various resolutions and conventions. (1) The effectiveness of the ...
Invisible borders: mapping out virtual law?
Mar 22, 2009; ... I. OVERVIEW In his preface to a 1945 treatise on international borders, S. Whittemore Boggs opened with this historical overview: <Pre>Boundaries and boundary problems have undergone great changes. WhenMarco Polo crossed frontiers from one jurisdiction to ...
Rights of action for private non-state actors in the WTO dispute settlement system.
Mar 22, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION The WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), (1) and the multi-tiered dispute settlement system it governs have been heralded as lasting triumphs of the Uruguay Round. (2) Indeed, the WTO's dispute settlement system avoids many of the political pitfalls that ...
Multilateral environmental agreements: from Montreal to Kyoto - a theoretical approach to an improved climate change regime.
Mar 22, 2009; ... "[T]here is no durable treaty which is not founded on reciprocal advantage, and indeed a treaty which does not satisfy this condition is no treaty at all, and is apt to contain the seeds of its own dissolution. Thus the great secret of negotiation is to bring out prominently the common ...
Born free yet everywhere in chains: global slavery in the twenty-first century.
Dec 22, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION The chasm between illusion and reality confronts us in many realms of our world today but nowhere more starkly than in the terrible realization that our global family, striding boldly into a new millennium carrying banners proclaiming the universality of human ...
Shared but differentiated responsibility: integration of international obligations in fight against trafficking in human beings.
Dec 22, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Trafficking in persons is a serious violation of fundamental, predominant and non-derogable human rights and freedoms. It is deeply rooted within the very heart of international world order and invokes not only moral, but also legal, economic, social and ...
State responsibility: a concerto for court, council and committee.
Dec 22, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION The judgment in the Case Concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention case), released by the International Court of Justice (the Court) on 26th February 2007, has thrown up a number of ...
Soldiers of fortune - holding private security contractors accountable: the Alien Tort Claims Act and its potential application to Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc., et al.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Private security contractors play a prominent role in modern military operations. Of course the use of paid forces is not a new concept. Militaries utilized paid forces for hundreds of years, but technological advances have increased the mobility and firepower of private security ...
Places of Refuge for Ships: Emerging Environmental Concerns of a Maritime Custom.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... PLACES OF REFUGE FOR SHIPS: EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS OF A MARITIME CUSTOM (Aldo Chircop & Olof Linden eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006). I. INTRODUCTION The damaged tankers Erika and Prestige, denied access to ports or other places of refuge, sank in ...