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  • Florida Legislative Journals

    Florida Legislative Journals Uses of Journals Both the House and the Senate publish an official journal for each day that each house is in formal session. The legislature begins a new set of page numbers each time a new session convenes. There is a separate index for each session, but no master index for the…

  • WTO/GATT Research

    WTO/GATT Research See also More about WTO/GATT Research I. Secondary Sources Start here for research guides, quick facts, news, statistics, background, scholarly analysis, and citations to official documents and dispute settlement reports. A. Other Research Guides • Introduction to International Law Research. Jean Davis and Victoria Szymczak. • ASIL American Society of International Law Guides…

  • GATT Digital Archive: 1947 – 1994

    GATT Digital Archive: 1947 – 1994 Project Overview The Stanford University Libraries embarked on a multi-year project to capture digitally a significant collection of archival material , internal documents and selected publications produced by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor organization, the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The…

  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade resources

    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) / World Trade Organization (WTO) resources Legal texts index A-Z Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization Agreement Establishing the WTO: acceptance of and accession to the agreement Agriculture > summary > interpretation Agriculture: measures concerning the possible negative effects of the reform programme on least-developed and net food-importing…

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The May 2011 update adds 46 new articles to the Encyclopedia. Highlights include topics such as Compliance, Amnesties, International Administration of Territory, and Gay Rights.…

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law update

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law update The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The March 2012 update adds over 200 new articles. Highlights include highly-anticipated contributions on such central topics as Foreign Relations, International Co-operation, International humanitarian law…

  • Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness

    Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness Mark Freeman (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, 316 pp) The emphasis on the ‘right to know’1 as a crucial aspect of ending impunity has lead to a greater focus on the necessity of holding truth commissions. As many authors in the fields of transitional justice and International Criminal Law…

  • A Common Law of International Adjudication

    A Common law of International Adjudication Chester Brown (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, liii + 303 pp) The rise of international courts and tribunals in the past few decades has led to a wealth of scholarly studies, the establishment of academic institutions, seminars and publication series. Debates continue over the possibilities, threats and implications thrown…

  • Targeted Killing in International Law

    Targeted Killing in International Law Nils Melzer (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 468 pp) Targeted killing is not an easy topic to write, or read, about. The more examination given to the issue of whether a state has the legal, or even moral, right to kill, the more complex the arguments on both sides become.…

  • Law, War and Crime

    Law, War and Crime Gerry Simpson (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, ix + 225 pp) Law, War and Crime is a history of International Criminal Law . The field is a young one and its tensions, ironies and incoherencies, illuminated in the first five chapters of Gerry Simpson’s book, are many; can, and how does, International…

  • Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women in the E.U.

    Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union Heli Askola (Hart Publishing, Oxford, Portland Oregon, Modern Studies in European Law, Volume 14, 2007 pp xix +218) Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a hot political topic and it has become an even hotter legal issue since the adoption in 2000…

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession Aleksander Pavkovi? and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main relevant on-going debates on the definition of secession, on its causes, on the normative debate…

  • List of U.S. Constitution key topics starting with A

    List of United States Constitution key topics starting with A Abington Township v. Schempp Adarand Constructors, Inc v. Pena Adderley v. Florida af?rmative action Agostini v. Felton Allen v. State Board of Elections Allied Structural Steel v. Spannus [ Atty Gen of Minn ] Ambach v. Norwick Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. See speci?c amendments…

  • List of U.S. Constitution key topics starting with S

    List of U.S. Constitution key topics starting with S S Ct of Virginia v. Friedman Saenz v. Roe San Antonio Indep School District v. Rodriguez Santa Fe Indep School Dist v. Doe Scales v. US Schneider v. Irvington Seamons v. Snow Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida Shapiro v. Thompson Shelley v. Kraemer Sherbert v.…

  • List of U.S. Constitution key topics starting with U

    List of United States Constitution key topics starting with U U.S. Constitution judicial review U.S. Constitution: campaign ?nance U.S. Constitution: school prayer U.S. commander in chief U.S. Constitution judicial review U.S. Constitution law: commerce clause U.S. Constitution law: equal protection U.S. Constitution law: incorporation U.S. Constitution law: just compensation U.S. Constitution law: parades U.S. Constitution…