The George Washington International Law Review back issues from January 2007:
THE MYOPIA OF U.S. v. MARTINELLI: EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Beginning in January 1999 and continuing through January 2000, a U.S. soldier began frequenting an off-post Internet cafe in Darmstadt, Germany, called the Netzwork Café.1 There he would download images of child pornography and search Internet websites, logging onto ...
PARALLEL PROCEEDINGS AT THE WTO AND UNDER NAFTA CHAPTER 19: WHITHER THE DOCTRINE OF EXHAUSTION OF LOCAL REMEDIES IN DSU REFORM?
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Initially hailed as the "crown jewel" of the Uruguay Round and the "linchpin" of the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trading system,1 it is now widely acknowledged that the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU)2 needs revision. At the Doha Ministerial ...
PINOCHET AND THE UNCERTAIN GLOBALIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION No case study reveals the growth in importance of international criminal law more dramatically than the prosecutions centered on the crimes of the Chilean dictatorship led by Auguste Pinochet Ugarte.1 Numerous books address the history and political implications of the ...
JUSTICIABILITY OF THE ISRAELI FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM
Jan 01, 2007; ... This essay deals with the degree to which law and courts of law are capable of regulating the fight against terrorism, and the degree to which this is actually being done in Israel. Part I deals with the general concept of justiciability. Part II presents some special problems regarding the ...
THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Corruption, an ineradicable element of politics across time and place, is universal.1 Every state grapples with corruption and its negative effects.2 It is a natural consequence of the often-symbiotic relationship between business and government,3 and its total ...
THE PRICE OF FAME: CITES REGULATION AND EFFORTS TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE GREAT WHITE SHARK
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION After several failed attempts, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) passed a proposal in October of 2004 to increase trade restrictions on the Great White Shark (white shark), also known as carcharodon carcharias, by ...
BABES WITH ARMS: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CHILD SOLDIERS
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION Among many recent developments in international criminal law, the prohibition on child soldiers stands out for its universality and speed of implementation. Barely a crime thirty years ago, the ban on recruiting children took root in the 1990s and has since blossomed into ...
CORPORATE COMPLICITY IN INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN CHINA: WHO CARES FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT OR THE GLOBAL ONLINE FREEDOM ACT?
Jan 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION The involvement of corporations in human rights abuses is arguably as old as incorporation. Corporate involvement in abuses can be traced to as early as the activities of the British East India Company,1 a time when even the notion of human rights in its present form was ...
EXPORTING WESTERN LAW TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD: THE TROUBLING CASE OF NIGER
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION In recent decades the West1 has imposed on the Developing World the so-called Washington Consensus (Consensus), a package of policy reforms that, if implemented properly, is supposed to propel poor countries toward First World prosperity.2 In the United States, popular ...
JUST SAY YES: DRUG TRAFFICKING TREATIES AS A MODEL FOR AN ANTI-SPAM CONVENTION
Jan 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION On July 24, 2005, Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam1 to most of Russia's 17.6 million Internet users, was bludgeoned to death in his Moscow home.2 The reaction of the Russian media to Kushnir's murder was nothing short of jubilation,3 and while Kushnir's murder ...
WHY EUROPE IS SAFE FROM CHOICEPOINT: PREVENTING COMMERCIALIZED IDENTITY THEFT THROUGH STRONG DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY LAWS
Jan 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION Prior to February 2005, most Americans were unfamiliar with ChoicePoint, a data broker that aggregates and sells personal information. In 2005, however, ChoicePoint revealed that identity thieves had purchased personal data on approximately 145,000 Americans.1 For the first ...
HERE COMES THE MAIL-ORDER BRIDE: THREE METHODS OF REGULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, THE PHILIPPINES, AND RUSSIA
Jan 01, 2007; ... "The transformation of people into commodities for the purpose of catering to a consumer society has proved profitable for mail-order bride brokers."1 "At present, affected nations unilaterally craft, propose, and implement solutions to the problem according to their diverse perceptions ...
THE ROLE OF COURTS IN ENFORCING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS
Jan 01, 2007; ... THE ROLE OF COURTS IN ENFORCING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies: An Institutional Voice for the Poor? Roberto Gargarella, Pilar Domingo & Theunis Roux eds. Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 1, 328, $124.95 (hardcover). Courts and Social Transformation ...