The United States dropped the atomic bomb of Article 16 of the ICC Statute: Security Council power of deferrals and Resolution 1422.
ABSTRACT This Article discusses the recent adoption of the Security Council Resolution 1422 and its impact on international law. The Author asserts that the United States--a major proponent of Resolution 1422--desires to immunize its leaders and soldiers from the International Criminal Court's jurisdictional powers. The Author begins...

What to do with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists? A qualified defense of military commissions and United States policy on detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
I. INTRODUCTION The United States has successfully brought down the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Together with increasing law-enforcement arrests and detentions of individuals alleged to be connected with the planning or execution of the attacks of September 11, the American military accomplishment has now pressed into the...

Treatises of development: the context of developmentalism in Bangladesh.
This article analyzes the structure of the development discourse that has become prominent since the end of World War II. An understanding of this structure is vital to developing an appreciation of the making of Third World nations as objects of development. The Truman inaugural address provided a basis...

The Caspian Sea legal regime, pipeline diplomacy, and the prospects for Iran's isolation from the oil and gas frenzy: reconciling Tehran's legal options with its geopolitical realities.
ABSTRACT The signing of the "deal of the century" in Baku creating one of the first major Caspian energy consortiums between Azerbaijan and western oil companies signaled the beginning of a new era in world energy politics. The discovery of potentially huge oil and gas reserves in...

Local research, global governance: a challenge for institutional design.
This article explores a generic issue in the context of a specific case, that of the Global Development Network (GDN). The issue is this: How can a global, centralized organization help build the capacity of local, independent institutions and individuals throughout the developing world without imposing an externally driven...

Beyond the international harmonization of trademark law: the community trade mark as a model of unitary transnational trademark protection.
The rapid globalization of the economic marketplace has spurred a proliferation of international lawmaking with respect to intellectual property rights. Harmonization of laws has been called the "dominant impulse" for such international lawmaking initiatives.(1) This trend is clearly visible in the world of trademark law. Trademarks perform...

East Timor, the U.N. system, and enforcing non-recognition in international law.
ABSTRACT This Article seeks to assess how the U.N. system has enforced regimes of non-recognition under international law. Claims by certain communities to constitute states and claims by some states to hold title to certain pieces of territory have met with opposition from various quarters. At times,...

Equivalence: not quite close enough for the international harmonization of environmental standards.
I. INTRODUCTION As noted by economist Herman Daly, the world used to be "relatively empty of human beings and their belongings ... and relatively full of other species and their habitats."(1) But many people, particularly urban residents, might say that quite the opposite is now true.(2) At...

International law and the protection of human rights in the inter-American system.
I. Introduction The effectiveness of an intergovernmental human rights mechanism can be analyzed from a number of different angles. First, using a practical approach, one could ask how many lives have been saved, how many prisoners and detainees have been released from detention, and how many individuals...

The corporate co-optation of the UN.
The Netherlands Via EcoNet -- The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) represents the largest transnational corporations on Earth, including General Motors, Novartis, Bayer and Nestle. The ICC, which for many years has pushed for global economic deregulation within the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G-7 (now the G-8, with...