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The United States Stands Alone: A Divergence in the Treatment of Genus Claims in Pharmaceutical Patents, 22 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 97 (2022)
Black and Barred: The Bar Examination\u27s History of Exclusivity and the Threat of Further Exclusion Posed by ABA Standard 316, 74 S.C. L. Rev. 179 (2022)
Can a State Criminal Subpoena to a Sitting President Be Trumped?: Exploring Trump v. Vance, 55 UIC L. Rev. 727 (2022)
Body Revolution in Comparative Perspective: Promoting Equality Through Adoption of New Theory of Bodiliness, 55 UIC L. Rev. 615 (2022)
If the Metaverse is Built, Will Copyright Challenges Come?, 21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 215 (2022)
Caught by the Act: Does the Copyright Act of 1909 Pose Legal Disasters for Modern Music?, 21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 292 (2022)
The Escazú Agreement: The Last Piece of a Tripart Normative Framework in the Right to a Healthy Environment
The right to a healthy environment in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights is not a new right. Human rights and the environment have long been fought for in the Americas and the Caribbean. What is new and exciting in the protection of the environment and human rights is the recent ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (“Escazú Agreement”), a binding treaty in the region that represents a real commitment from States to protect environmental human rights. The Escazú Agreement brings with it special protections for vulnerable persons (persons in vulnerable situations) and communities in the context of environmental harm and climate change. This article argues that the Escazú Agreement provides for a robust set of protections that complement the already existing and foundational decisions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights (OC-23/17) and the Comunidades indígenas miembros de la Asociación Lhaka Honha (Nuestra Tierra) v. Argentina. The Escazú Agreement provides another vehicle to hold States responsible to protect the environment and human rights as the last piece of this tripart framework of protection