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作者:Blum, Gabriella
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:This paper studies the different roles, impact, and operation of bilateral treaties and multilateral treaties as structures within the architecture of international law. I observe that the preference for bilateralism or multilateralism in international lawmaking is often determined not by an informed choice but by an instinctive association of political schools or bureaucratic affiliations with different forms of international regulation. This association, however, is not always founded on a j...
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作者:Gadinis, Stavros
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:Polity coordination between diverse regulatory regimes in financial services ranks highly on the international political agenda because regulatory differences create impediments to growing financial activity. Efficiency-oriented theories fail to explain why coordination was achieved in some domains but not in others, while arguments linking coordination to similarities or differences in states' substantive policy goals cannot account for coordination progress in spite of vast differences in pr...
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作者:Brilmayer, Lea; Chepiga, Geoffrey
作者单位:Yale University
摘要:This article argues that if and when recovery is possible for civilian property illegally destroyed during war-and there are reasons to believe that it is becoming an ever more realistic possibility-then damages should reflect not just the replacement value or market value of the items destroyed, but rather the humanitarian value, or what we refer to as the civilian use value. Food, medicine, and clothing should he compensated at higher levels, and according to a different calculus, than jewel...
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作者:Danchin, Peter G.
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore
摘要:The case of proselytism presents a tangle of competing claims: on the one hand, the rights of Proselytizers to free exercise of religion and freedom of speech; on the other hand, the rights of targets of Proselytism to change their religion, peacefully to have or to maintain a particular religious tradition, and to be free from injury to religious feelings. Clashes between these claims of right are today generating acute tensions in relations between states and peoples, a state of affairs star...
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作者:Connor, Colette
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United States is required to submit periodic reports to the treaty's supervisory body, the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The United States recently submitted its joint Second and Third Periodic Report. The Report-the United States' first in eleven years-came in the midst of intense scrutiny over the government's human rights record. Even in the absence of these controversies, the U.S. Report would have marked ...