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作者:Boehm, Joshua L.
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作者:Heller, Kevin Jon
摘要:Article 17 of the Rome Statute prohibits the International Criminal Court (ICC) from pre-empting a national prosecution of an act that qualifies as a war crime, crime against humanity, or act of genocide unless the State is unwilling or unable genuinely to carry out that prosecution itself. Scholars have long debated to what extent Article 17 permits states to prosecute international crimes as ordinary crimes. Proponents of the hard mirror thesis argue that such prosecutions never satisfy the ...
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作者:Sloss, David L.
作者单位:Santa Clara University
摘要:The Supreme Court's 2008 decision in Medellin v. Texas unleashed a flood of new scholarship on the doctrine of self-executing treaties. Unfortunately, the entire debate has been founded on two erroneous assumptions. First, courts and commentators have assumed that self-execution is a treaty interpretation question. Second, they have assumed that the modern doctrine of self-execution is essentially the same as the doctrine articulated by Chief Justice Marshall in his seminal opinion in Foster v...
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作者:Landau, David
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Despite the lack of socio-economic rights in the U.S. Constitution and the absence of political will to enforce them, the vast majority of constitutions around the world now include these rights, and courts are enforcing them in increasingly aggressive and creative ways. Scholars have produced a large and theoretically rich literature on the topic. Virtually all of this literature assumes that social rights enforcement is about the advancement of impoverished, marginalized groups. Moreover, th...
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作者:Wu, Mark
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:Over the past decade, China and India have rapidly increased their use of antidumping laws, the world's most dominant form of trade protectionism, against their trading partners. Yet, this behavior has triggered little concern in the United States and Europe. Why? Two leading theories suggest that the recent spike in Indian and Chinese antidumping measures is temporary. Moreover, the balance of benefits under existing international legal rules continues to favor American and European producers...