Articles in Channel: International Law

The Impeachment: Should Chief Justice Renato Corona Testify in his Defense?

March 22, 2012 15:49

Today, 22 March 2012, the defense presented its last witness (former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) before the Senate, acting as an impeachment court, takes a break. Even before the trial...

Part XV—Zhiwei Tong (???) Series: The Petitioning System and the Constitution of China

Larry Catá Backer
March 22, 2012 14:41

 (Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (???),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China.  Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010.  See,...

Part XXV—Zhiwei Tong (???) Series: Petitioning System and the Constitution of China (Part III)

Larry Catá Backer
March 22, 2012 14:27

 (Zhiwei Tong, PIX (c) Larry Catá Backer)For 2012, this site introduces the thought of Zhiwei Tong (???),one of the most innovative scholars of constitutional law in China.  Professor Tong has been developing his thought in part in a essay site that wasstarted in 2010.  See,...

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

Jacob Katz Cogan
March 22, 2012 13:43

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 15, no. 1, March 2012) is out. Contents include:Norbert Seiler & Jelena Madir, Fight Against Corruption: Sanctions Regimes of Multilateral Development BanksChi Manjiao, China’s Participation in WTO Dispute Settlement Over the Past...

The End Of Cheap China. What Does It Mean, Anyway?

Dan Harris
March 22, 2012 13:23

Since we started this blog back in 2006, we wrote of how you should expect and prepare for China wages and other prices to rise. In our very first month, way back in January, 2006, in a post entitled, “China is Booming, Go There for Growth,” we warned of rising China prices: This...

Women @ ASIL (6th ed.)

March 22, 2012 13:21

IntLawGrrls is proud today to highlight women who will speak at next week's annual meeting of the American Society of International Law – as we have each year since our founding (here, here, here, here, here, and here).This 106th gathering of the Society, entitled Confronting Complexity (prior...

Need to Find a Schedule B Number?

Daniel H. Erskine
March 22, 2012 13:07

Are you in need of discovering your product's Schedule B number (a 10-digit number used for exports)? Export.gov has a good brief explanation of the Harmonization Tariff Schedule and the need for Schedule B numbers. More importantly, the site has a link to the U.S. Census Bureau's Schedule B...

Fauchald & Nollkaemper: The Practice of International and National Courts and the (De-)Fragmentation of International Law

Jacob Katz Cogan
March 22, 2012 10:39

Ole Kristian Fauchald (Univ. of Oslo - Law) & André Nollkaemper (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) have published The Practice of International and National Courts and the (De-)Fragmentation of International Law (Hart Publishing 2012). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:In recent decades...

Steingruber: Consent in International Arbitration

Jacob Katz Cogan
March 22, 2012 09:16

Andrea M. Steingruber has published Consent in International Arbitration (Oxford Univ. Press 2012). Here's the abstract:Examining the notion, nature, and extent of consent in both commercial arbitration and investment arbitration, this book provides practitioners and academics with a thorough,...

China and Inter-American Development Bank Announce US$1 Billion Fund

March 22, 2012 08:24

By Gregor Hastings Mar. 22 – China and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) have recently announced plans for a US$1 billion investment fund to help develop Latin American and Caribbean markets. The IADB and China’s state-owned Export-Import Bank of China will each make investments of...