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2023 APEC Finance Ministers\u27 Meeting Digital Assets
No full textUnder the APEC 2023 theme of “Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All,” we reiterate our strong commitment to achieve the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040, including through implementation of the Aotearoa Plan of Action, to realize an open, dynamic, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040, for the prosperity of all our people and future generations
Fleeing the Land of the Free
Get PDFThis Essay is the first scholarly intervention, from any discipline, to examine the number and nature of asylum claims made by U.S. citizens, and to explore the broader implications of this phenomenon. While the United States continues to be a preeminent destination for persons seeking humanitarian protection, U.S. citizens have fled the country in significant numbers, filing approximately 14,000 asylum claims since 2000. By formally seeking refuge elsewhere, these applicants have calculated that the risks of remaining in the United States outweigh the bundle of rights that accompany U.S. citizenship. Given the United States’ recent flirtation with authoritarianism, and the widening fissures in the nation’s social fabric, a closer study of asylum seeking is warranted—and indeed, prudent—should future political conditions generate a larger exodus of U.S. citizens.
This Essay opens with a quantitative overview of claims, drawing on data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and from countries that are the U.S. citizen asylum seekers’ destinations. Following that statistical summary, this Essay presents a typology of claims that U.S. citizens have lodged, extracting from public sources the applicants’ motivations for seeking asylum and how foreign government authorities have received those claims. Among the classes of U.S. citizens who have sought protection overseas are war resisters, political dissidents, whistleblowers, fugitives, members of minority groups, domestic violence survivors, and the U.S. citizen children of noncitizen parents. This Essay concludes by exploring the relevance of this trend to scholarly debates about asylum adjudication, international relations, forced migration, and citizenship
The Slippery Concept of Object and Purpose in International Criminal Law
Get PDFIn little more than twenty-five years, the field of international criminal law has grown from a small slice of public international law into a functioning system of international justice, complete with multiple juridical bodies and substantial scholarly attention. Building on the legacy of the Nuremberg Tribunals and drawing from international humanitarian law, human rights law, and domestic criminal law principles, international criminal law has become its own discipline. Creating any new field of law is a complicated endeavor; this is especially true when the field affects and is affected by so many politically sensitive issues. Throughout this doctrinal experiment, one concept has been an essential ingredient to its development
Comments on Federal Trade Commission Non-compete Ban Proposed Rule, Matter No. P201200
Get PDFWithin signed law professors and law students submitted this letter to the Federal Trade Commission, writing in their individual capacities, not as agents of their affiliated institutions, in support of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule to ban most non-compete clauses (the “Proposal”) as an unfair method of competition.
This letter offers comments in response to areas where the FTC has requested public comment. To make our views clear, this letter contains the following sections: I. Summary of the Proposal; II. The Commission Should Consider Expanding Its Definition of Non-Compete Clauses to Prevent Employers from Requiring Workers to Quit Before Seeking Alternative Employment; III. Non-Compete Clauses Are Unfair Methods of Competition; IV. Non-Compete Clauses Negatively Impact Workers and Their Families; V. The Proposed Rule Protects Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs; and VI. The Commission Should Consider a Factor Test for Its Unfairness Analysis for Senior Executives
Our comments were publicly submitted electronically with the FTC on April 18, 2023
Glass Half-Full or Glass Half-Empty? Thirty Years of Accountability at the Inspection Panel--The Impact of its Work and What the Data Tells Us
Get PDF“A stroke of a genius”, “a bold experiment in transparency and accountability that has worked to the benefit of all concerned”, “a precedent under international law”, and a “citizen-based accountability mechanism” are some of the ways in which close observers have described the World Bank Inspection Panel, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2023
Trademark Extraterritoriality: Abitron v. Hetronic Doesn\u27t Go the Distance
No full textIn one of the last opinions announced this term, Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International Inc., the Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act does not reach trademark infringement that occurs outside of the United States (US). Involving a dispute between two former business partners, both doing business in more than one country with the same trademarks, the Court reversed the Tenth Circuit and remanded the case for a determination of whether the accused acts satisfied the “use in commerce” requirement
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Assessing Their Impacts on Belize
Get PDFFirst of all, as we all know, there are three aspects of climate change that we know occur. The first is the increase of global temperatures because of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. As a result of the warming of the oceans, sea levels rise; but even more importantly, additional fresh water is entering the oceans, which is now the predominant factor leading to increased sea-level rates. Finally, a change of the hydrological cycle—because of warmer temperatures, we are seeing more extreme weather events and shifts in precipitation patterns.
The impacts, however, are more important—for example, the impacts of climate change on health. In Belize, we are seeing much more dengue because more mosquitoes are being spawned. There are also impacts on agricultural productivity, forestry, water resources, the coastal zone, and ecosystems in general.
In the case of Belize, our best data from the international airport shows that in the past fifty years, temperatures have increased by one degree Celsius already, and we know the global average for the past one hundred and fifty years is about the same: 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius. So in fact, in Belize, it is even rising at a greater rate than we see globally
Reflections on the Role of the Panel
Get PDFOver the past thirty years, the World Bank and the Inspection Panel have had a supportive relationship regarding the principle of accountability, particularly as applied to the field of development finance operations and the role and responsibility of the Bank as a multilateral public sector financial institution. This relationship has been apparent in at least three key aspects: i) following the Bank’s lead, many development institutions around the globe have taken steps to improve their own accountability and developed independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) modeled on the Inspection Panel; ii) the Bank and other development institutions have been supporting the development of stronger and more comprehensive environmental and social policies for which they hold themselves to account; and iii) there has been steady growth in the availability and breadth of grievance services and mechanisms, at the management and project level, to help implement policy requirements and resolve issues for affected peopl
Class of 2000
No full textClass of 2000, first floor, far back wallhttps://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/photo_2000/1000/thumbnail.jp