作者：Burke-White, William W.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：For most of the past sixty years, the United States and Europe have led, independently and collectively, the international legal system. Yet, the rise of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs) over the past decade has caused a profound transformation of global politics. This paper examines the implications of this redistribution of power for international law. While international lawyers have long debated the ability of law to constrain state behavior, this paper shifts the debate from t...
作者：Sainati, Tatiana
摘要：For decades, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has served as a bright beacon of hope for advancing human rights. Yet in recent years, a flood of applications has threatened to drown the institution entirely. In an effort to stay afloat amid the growing tide of cases, the Court instituted the so-called pilot-judgment procedure. Through this procedure, the Court attempts to address systemic violations on the domestic level that give rise to large numbers of repetitive applications by ad...
作者：Liu, Jodie
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：During the last quarter of the twentieth century, India was known as the Pharmacy of the Developing World a critical source of inexpensive, life-saving drugs for the world's most impoverished populations. But when India joined the World Trade Organization in 1995, it became subject to the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), which required it, among other things, to restore product patents on drugs by a certain date. India's 2005 Amendments to the Patents Act di...
作者：Milanovic, Marko
作者单位：University of Nottingham
