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• The Economic Structure of International Investment Agreements with Implications for Treaty Interpretation and Design AI翻译
  作者：Sykes, Alan O.
  作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
  摘要：This Article argues that international investment agreements (IIAs) serve a dual economic function-to discipline host country policies that impose international externalities on foreign investors, and to curtail inefficient risks associated with agency costs, risk aversion, asymmetric information, and time inconsistency problems that uneconomically increase the cost of imported capital in host countries. It draws on the economic analysis to explain central features of IIAs and their evolution ...
• United States Initiates Withdrawal from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty AI翻译
  作者：[Anonymous]
  摘要：On February 2, 2019, the United States formally notified Russia that it would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in six months and that, effective immediately, it was suspending its performance under the treaty in light of Russia's material breach. This decision came more than three months after the Trump administration indicated that the United States was planning to withdraw from the treaty.
• Congress Signals Concern Over US Role in Aiding Saudi Arabia's Activities in Yemen AI翻译
  作者：Galbraith, Jean
• THE QUIMBAYA TREASURE, Judgment SU-649/17 AI翻译
  作者：Mejia-Lemos, Diego
  作者单位：National University of Singapore
• United States Resists Efforts to Have the Arctic Council Make Climate-Related Statement AI翻译
  作者：Galbraith, Jean
  摘要：The Arctic Council convened for the eleventh time in early May 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland, for a two-day conference. On May 7, the Arctic Council released a Joint Ministerial Statement that affirmed the desire of the eight member states to work together to face upcoming challenges but made no substantive commitments and no mention of climate change. In remarks to the Council, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed wariness about collective decision making and warned against potential effects...
• Secretary of State Establishes Commission on Unalienable Rights AI翻译
  作者：Galbraith, Jean
  摘要：On July 8, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo established a Commission on Unalienable Rights. The Commission will provide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations concerning international human rights matters horizontal ellipsis [and] provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation's founding principles of natural law and natural rights. The Commission has an initial two-year mandate. Democratic lawmakers have raised concerns tha...
• Mandatory Multilateralism AI翻译
  作者：Criddle, Evan J.; Fox-Decent, Evan
  作者单位：William & Mary; William & Mary; McGill University
  摘要：This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that states are always free to choose whether to participate in multilateral regimes. International law often mandates multilateralism to ensure that state laws and practices are compatible with sovereign equality and joint stewardship. The Article maps mandatory multilateralism's domain, defines its requirements, and examines its application to three controversies: the South China Sea dispute, the United States' withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Ag...
• Federal Appellate Court Allows Hungarian Holocaust Survivors to Pursue Claims AI翻译
  作者：[Anonymous]
• Palestine Brings a Case Against the United States in the International Court of Justice at a Fraught Time for US.-Palestinian Relations AI翻译
  作者：Galbraith, Jean
• The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change AI翻译
  作者：Stewart, David P.
  摘要：On the surface, the two books under review seem to have little in common. The Bonnitcha/Poulsen/Waibel (BPW) book, written by two legal academics and a political scientist, provides a balanced, fact-grounded account of international investment agreements (IIAs) and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This is the international treaty regime in that book's title which the authors argue needs to be distinguished from the broader international regime complex that their book explicitly does n...