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Foreign Investment
THE ROLE IN THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT OF: The World Bank Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); The Convention establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency; and Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements (IPPAs). (London, 1994) The […]
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Education
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]
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Climate Change
Climate Change in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): For discussion of issues relating to climate change generally, see information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal […]
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Climate Change
Climate Change in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): For discussion of issues relating to climate change generally, see information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal […]
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STATUS
STATUS Of considerable significance for social scientific investigations of the origins, development, and decline of a wide variety of religious ideologies, movements, and institutions. Like other concepts that seek to impose sociological rigor on familiar societal terminology, status is subject to a number of distinct (although overlapping) usages that sometimes generate confusion. The Legal Context…
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Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms
The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Details of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Author: Amy Hackney Blackwell Date of publishing: 2008 Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410, United States Contents of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Abandon Abatable Nuisance Abate Abatement of a Legacy Abatement of Taxes Abdicate…
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International Plant Protection Committee
International Plant Protection Committee Adopted at Rome on 6 December 1951 PREAMBLE The contracting Governments, recognizing the usefulness of international co-operation in controlling pests and diseases of plants and plant products and in preventing their introduction and spread across national boundaries, and desiring to ensure close co-ordination of measures directed to these ends, have agreed…
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Sovereign Debt Litigation
Sovereign Debt Litigation Further Reading Adams P (1991) Odious debts. Corruption and the third world environmental legacy. Earthscan, London/TorontoGoogle Scholar Ago R (1991) “Binding” advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice. AJIL 85:439–451Google Scholar Akehurst M (1972–1973) Jurisdiction in international law. BYIL 46:145–257Google Scholar Alagherii Dantis (MCMXX) De Monarchia (first published 1559). In aedibus…
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List of Environment Treaties with Restricted Field of Application
List of Environment Treaties with Regional or Restricted Field of Application Notes: for a list of Environment Treaties with a global Field of Application, see here. There is a second part of this list of Environment Treaties with Restricted Field of Application here. Agreement between Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan concerning the monitoring and exchange…
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List of Bilateral Environment Treaties by Place of Adoption
List of Bilateral Environment Treaties by Place of Adoption Abuja : Treaty between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe on the Joint Development of Petroleum and other Resources, in respect of Areas of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Two States Abuja : Treaty between the Federal…
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Muslim Marital Property
Muslim Marital Property Note: The information is mostly drawn from two publications which are based on research by local legal experts and activists in the Muslim community: Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world, and Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family. Giving Wives a Fair…
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Theories of Contractual Obligation
Theories of Contractual Obligation Theories of Contractual Obligations Consent Theory of Contract in General The mere fact that one man promises something to another creates no legal duty and makes no legal remedy available in case of non-performance. To be enforceable, the promise must be accompanied by some other factor…. The question now to be…
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Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities
Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities in us Courts in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): As discussed in in this legal Encyclopedia, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases in tandem in 2010 concerning […]
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Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities
Jurisdiction Over Foreign Entities in us Courts in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): As discussed in in this legal Encyclopedia, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases in tandem in 2010 concerning […]
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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement What is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, also known as ACTA? And why should you care? Counterfeiting, after all, is one of those obscure criminal enterprises, that yes, must be addressed by law enforcement, but why should lawyers, or […]