Bananas of wrath: how Nicaragua may have dealt forum non
conveniens a fatal blow removing the doctrine as an obstacle to
achievi
I. INTRODUCTION: CONCERNING BANANA WORKERS
II. FORUM NON CONVENIENS: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS
A. The Alternative Forum
B. Private and Public Interest Factors
III. FORUM NON CONVENIENS: . . .
International trafficking in children: will new U.S. legislation
provide an ending to the story?
I. THE TRAGEDY OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX
TRAFFICKING: NO COUNTRY IS IMMUNE FROM THE
DRAMA
II. THE FIVE "WS" OF SEX TRAFFICKING: UNDERSTANDING
THE STORY
A. What is the plot in . . .
"Female troubles": the plight of foreign household
workers pursuing lawful permanent residency through employment-based
immigrat
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE PROCEDURE
A. Temporary Residency: The Nonimmigrant Visa
1. "Too Hot, Too Cold, Too Big, Too Small" or
"The Goldilocks Problem": Why Most
. . .
Have we closed the barn door yet? A look at the current loopholes
in the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE HISTORY OF RECEDING MILITARY JURISDICTION
OVER U.S. CIVILIANS
A. How Was the Barn Door Opened in the First
Place?
B. What Is the Significance of the . . .
Regulating international lawyers: the legal consultant
rules.
I. THE THEME AND ITS VARIATIONS
II. THE TABLES: COMPARING THE RULES
III. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE ROLE FOR LEGAL
CONSULTANTS
TABLE 1
TABLE 2
END NOTES: TABLES 1 & 2
Economic . . .
Sending the right signals: using rent-seeking theory to analyze
the Cuban Central Bank.
I. METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO LEGAL
SCHOLARSHIP
A. A Deflationary View of Central Bank Independence
B. Using Rent-Seeking Analysis to Track Creditor
Influence on . . .
Property, people, and prosperity: address to the Houston World
Affairs Council.
I. BUILDING NATIONS
II. PROPERTY, ACQUAINTANCE, AND DESCRIPTION
III. VALUE THROUGH LAW
IV. DEMOCRACY
V. REMEMBER NOT TO FORGET
A. What Makes a Successful Nation?
B. Do Not Get . . .
Going too far is worse than not going far enough: principle-based
accounting standards, international harmonization, and the Eur
I. HOW DID WE GET HERE?--ACCOUNTING, FRAUD AND
NATIONAL DEBTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES
II. THE PURPOSE OF ACCOUNTING STANDARDS IS TO
PRODUCE RELEVANT, RELIABLE AND CONSISTENTLY
. . .
Defining international satellite communications as weapons of
mass destruction: the first step in a compromise between national
I. INTRODUCTION
II. INTERNATIONAL LAW GOVERNS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SATELLITES BUT FALLS SHORT OF PROVIDING A
COMPREHENSIVE REGULATORY SCHEME
A. Corpus Juris Spatialis Provides . . .
Finding the right tool for the job: adequate protection for
research tool patents in a global market?
I. PATENT LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES
II. PROCESS PATENTS AMENDMENT ACT--HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
III. BIOPHARMACEUTICALS: THE SCIENCE AND THE
INDUSTRY
A. Biotech 101-A Basic Primer on . . .
Justice under transitional administration: contours and critique
of a paradigm.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. JUSTICE UNDER TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION: THE
CONTOURS OF A PARADIGM
A. A Unique Rationale
B. Unique Features
1. The Multplicity of Actors
2. . . .
"Umbrellas" or "building blocks"? Defining
international terrorism and transnational organized crime in
international law [phi].
I. INTRODUCTION
II. DEFINITIONS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
A. The Draft Comprehensive Convention on
International Terrorism (the Draft . . .
Discrimination on the basis of resident status and denial of
equal treatment: a reply to Professor Weintraub's
response.(respons
I am grateful for Professor Russell J. Weintraub's response
(1) to my essay on "Equal Treaty Rights." (2) His claims and
commentary offer an opportunity for clarification and sharpened . . .
"Equal treaty rights": a response to Professor
Paust.(response to Jordan J. Paust, Houston Journal of International
Law, vol. 26
I. THERE IS NO AUTHORITY THAT BASING FORUM NON CONVENIENS DECISIONS
ON PLAINTIFF'S RESIDENCE VIOLATES U.S. TREATIES
Professor Jordan J. Paust published an article in this Journal
contending that . . .
To protect the defenseless: the need for child-specific
substantive standards for unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE CHILDREN
A. Definition
B. Reasons Why Children Leave Their Countries of
Origin
III. OVERVIEW OF ASYLUM LAW
A. 1951 United . . .
A constitutional dilemma: the conflict of the Title VII alien
exemption clause with the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. BACKGROUND OF CURRENT LAW
A. The Aramco Decision
1. The Presumption against Extraterritoriality
2. Congress Responds to ARAMCO
B. The Courts' . . .
The wide world of sports is getting wider: a look at drafting
foreign players into U.S. professional sports.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE RULES OF THE GAME
A. Immigration Laws Affecting Foreign Athletes
1. The Current 0 Visa
2. The Current P Visa
3. Effect of the . . .
TRIPS compliance: dealing with the consequences of drug patents
in India.(Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Pro
I. INTRODUCTION
II. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF INCREASED DRUG
PRICES
A. Will Drug Prices Actually Rise?
B. Drug Price Controls
C. Governmental Purchasing Power
D. Compulsory . . .
Charterer's liabilities under the ship time charter.
I. BACKGROUND
II. SCOPE
III. THE TIME CHARTER
A. Nature Of the Time Charter
1. Contract
2. Allocation of Duties
B. Limited Duties of a Time Charterer
. . .
Post-WTO China and independent judicial review.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. CONFUCIANISM, ASIAN VALUES, AND
PARTICULARISM
A. The Method and Need to Study Chinese
Jurisprudence
B. Ethos of Confucianism and Legalism
C. Asian . . .
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