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作者:Galbraith, Jean; Almarri, Latifa; Bhati, Lisha; Brooks, Rheem; Green, Zachary; Hu, Margo; Irshaidat, Noor
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:Fines and other financial sanctions are frequently imposed by criminal justice systems around the world. Yet they also raise grave concerns about economic discrimination. Unless they are perfectly scaled to defendants' financial circumstances, they will penalize poor persons far more than rich ones-and poor defendants' inability to pay can lead to further penalties like imprisonment or additional financial sanctions. These poverty penalties have received attention in domestic jurisdictions but...
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作者:[Anonymous]
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作者:Majekolagbe, Faith O.
作者单位:University of Alberta
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作者:Sirleaf, Matiangai
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore
摘要:Dear Editors in Chief:The recent uprising for racial justice marked a pivotal shift in national and global debates on race. One enduring legacy is that the language we use to speak, think, and label people is consequential. Most style guides that previously called for lowercasing Black altered their positions. This letter to the editors urges the American Journal of International Law (AJIL) to join those organizations that have also changed their policies to capitalize White.
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作者:Cogan, Jacob Katz
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作者:Akinkugbe, Olabisi D.
摘要:The international investment regime is in flux. The mainstream practice of investment law and arbitration works on the basis of the regime's foundations in contract and property law. However, critical scholarship in the field has unearthed the coloniality of power that permeates both the practice of international investment law and the current reform exercise led by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III. These critical scholars warn of the immine...
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作者:Chaisse, Julien; Olaoye, Kehinde Folake
作者单位:City University of Hong Kong
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作者:[Anonymous]
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作者:Denza, Eileen; Poulsen, Lauge
作者单位:University of London; University College London
摘要:The 1918 Soviet default is the longest and most complex sovereign debt dispute in history. The first settlement with a major Western power came with the United Kingdom in 1986. It followed a settlement almost twenty years earlier for claims arising from the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states. We show how the two negotiations became intertwined and prompted both states to take pragmatic positions on international law. Whereas the Soviet Union showed little interest in legally justifying its...
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作者:[Anonymous]