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Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Private Equity and Venture Capital in Germany: How Europe’s Heartland is Poised to Become the Next Bay Area

investment that existed in the San Francisco Bay Area prior to and following its tech explosion in the late twentieth century. Numerous factors such as political and ethnic diversity, a comparatively lower ... region. With a tumultuous history stretching back at least a century to the early 1900s involving numerous wars and political, physical, and national divisions, Berlin has lacked resources and lagged

The Disaster Chain: Counter-Mapping Global Value Chains

natural lives. Dominant depictions of global value chain governance treat labor, environment and local communities only peripherally, thus leaving the political economy of vulnerability, exploitation and ... identifying spaces of critical intervention and political-legal activism and reform. * Professor of Business Law, McGill University. State Law Exam, Frankfurt; Licence en droit, Université de Paris X; LL.M

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

The Effect of the PRO Act on Secondary Activity and International Trade

Christopher R. Rodenbaugh* * B.B.A. Finance, B.A. Philosophy 2020, Loyola University C hicago; M.B.A. 2021 , Loyola Quinlan School of Business; J.D. 2024, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Thank you to ... industries to achieve broader economic or political goals),54 was passed in direct response to the 1926 United Kingdom General Strike.55 The General Strike saw up to 1.75 million workers go on strike over wage

Disciplining CBDCs: Achieving the Balance between Privacy Protection and Central Bank Independence

data privacy, suppress speech, and push out political opponents.30 In theory, issuing central Banks may address CBDCs’ privacy concerns by keeping anonymity with their CBDC design. Nevertheless, many ... policy purposes, such as crime prevention and detection, or political purposes, such as elections. Introducing a credible disciplinary mechanism against central banks creates a space for other governmental

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Trends in China-Africa Economic Relations and Dispute Settlement

. Equality and Mutual Benefit: It promotes both political dialogue and economic cooperation and trade, with a view to seeking mutual reinforcement and common development. trading regime that is transparent ... implement the outcomes of previous ministerial meetings.10 On the other hand, the political facet of FOCAC is the subject of more sustained discussion, as evidenced by numerous references to the work of the

"Trade and": Recent Developments in Trade Policy and Scholarship - And Their Surprising Political Implications

of governments to interfere with global trade. But, in the "trade and" universe, things are not always as they appear. By focusing on the institutional competence of trade bodies-and the political ... argue that this expansion may threaten the continued political viability of the trade regime. Second, the term "trade and" might refer not directly to the new "trade and" issues themselves but rather to

Clarity About Comity: How Courts Have Attempted Greater Guidance for Chapter 15 Litigants

Second Circuit likely adopted this philosophy because it aligns with fundamental principles underlying U.S. bankruptcy law. U.S. bankruptcy law principally aims to balance the interests of creditors with ... discussed, the guiding philosophy in U.S. bankruptcy law balances interests between creditors and debtors. Transnational bankruptcy adds a diplomatic layer that requires balancing national and foreign

Between Backlash and the Re-Emerging “Calvo Doctrine”: Investor-State Dispute Settlement in an Era of Socialism, Protectionism, and Nationalism

, the ISDS-reform discussions should be conducted in a manner that underscores broader historical, economic, political, philosophical, and sociological lessons of the project called “transnationalism ... success and individualism. In fact, some states have been more successful than others in political theory; in fact, some ideas have political concerns of a free and open market system. Thus, the roots of

United States Trade Protectionism: Institutions, Norms, and Practices Symposium: The Political Economy of International Trade Law and Policy

States security strategy. Economic gains throughout the alliance were expected from open trade. Post-war domestic political stability in Europe and Japan was predicated on a consensus favoring economic

Political Economy of Competition Law: The Case of Thailand, The Symposium on Competition Law and Policy in Developing Countries

This paper will address the political economy of competition law in Thailand. Section II will provide a historical perspective of Thai Competition Law. Section III will show what went wrong with the ... environment. Thailand's experience illustrates that having a competition law may prove futile if enforcement cannot withstand political hurdles. Discriminatory and arbitrary implementation of the law may also

The Political Economy of International Standard Setting in Financial Reporting: How the United States Led the Adoption of IFRS Across the World

accepted for inclusion in Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons 1 Zehra G. Kavame Eroglu, Th e Political

Compulsory Patent Licensing in the United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

practical economic effect and general economic philosophy, the Comment will then question whether the current United States policy against general compulsory licenses remains viable in today's economic ... recent crisis-level political rhetoric about international "competitiveness" is to be believed, perhaps compulsory licensing is an idea whose time has come. C. A United States Compulsory Licensing Scheme

Changing Patterns of Protectionism: The Fall in Tariffs and the Rise in Non-Tariff Barriers Symposium: The Political Economy of International Trade Law and Policy

The model constructed in this Article explains how the efforts of special interest groups within a nation interact with its domestic political and foreign policy objectives to influence the nation's ... emerged in the United States and other industrialized nations since World War II through use of a simple analytical framework. With generous reference to the abundant literature on the political economy of

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

Introduction Symposium: The Political Economy of International Trade Law and Policy

the political and economic forces, ideas, and institutions that shape trade law and policy. The Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business has designed this symposium on the political economy ... political scientist, and Michael Borrus, a lawyer engaged in the study of trade policy. The Journal sought articles that would perform three functions: 1) introduce international lawyers to some of the major

A Political Economy Approach to Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Prohibitions against transnational bribery suffer from a paradoxical problem of simultaneous over- and under-enforcement. On the “supply-side,” U.S. enforcement against bribery through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is increasingly over-aggressive, while enforcement by other developed economies is nearly non-existent. On the “demand-side,” governments of developing...

Through a Glass Darkly: The Case against Pilkington plc. under the New U.S. Department of Justice International Enforcement Policy

that in an interdependent global economy, an aggressive jurisdictional philosophy risks embroiling U.S. courts in disputes involving the competitive structure of transnational and foreign markets. While ... presidency, with the trade deficit exceeding the boundaries of political acceptability, the Department abandoned its tolerant attitude towards extraterritorial conduct that violated U.S. antitrust laws. In