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Keynote Address, Welcome Dinner and Reception
No full textThe Fedder Lecture will be delivered by Distinguished Speaker, Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law and Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Government, Georgetown University Law School
Resolving International Environmental Disputes in the 1990s and Beyond
No full textThe Implementation of International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific Region lecture given by Ben Boer, Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Sydney, Australia and Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law.
Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA\u27s Environmental Side Agreement lecture given by Beatriz Bugeda, Professor of Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Ensuring Compliance with International Environmental Agreements lecture given by Edith Brown Weiss, Professor of Law at Georgetown University.
Resolution of International Environmental Disputes: Litigation and its Alternatives lecture given by Philippe Sands, Reader in International Law at the University of London
Direito Internacional em um Mundo Caleidoscópico
No full textDIREITO INTERNACIONAL EM UM MUNDO CALEIDOSCÓPICO* INTERNATIONAL LAW IN A KALEIDOSCOPIC WORLD Edith Brown Weiss** RESUMO: O direito internacional é desenvolvido e implementado hoje em um contexto complicado, diverso e dinâmico. Globalização e integração, fragmentação e descentralização, e empoderamento progressivo estão surgindo simultaneamente entre povos e civilizações altamente diversas. Mais importante, este período é caracterizado por mudanças rápidas e frequentemente imprevistas, com efeitos generalizados. Os avanços na tecnologia da informação tornam possíveis coalizões ad hoc e grupos informais em constante mudança, além de uma série de iniciativas individuais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direito Internacional. Globalização. Fragmentação. Legitimidade. ABSTRACT: International law is developed and implemented today in a complicated, diverse, and changing context. Globalization and integration, fragmentation and decentralization, and bottom-up empowerment are arising simultaneously among highly diverse peoples and civilizations. Most importantly, this period is characterized by rapid and often unforeseen changes with widespread effects. Advances in information technology make possible ever shifting ad hoc coalitions and informal groups and a myriad of individual initiatives. KEYWORDS: International Law. Globalization. Fragmentation. Legitimacy. SUMÁRIO: Introdução. 1 Correntes Globais Cruzadas. 1.1 Globalização e Integração. 1.2 Fragmentação e Descentralização. 1.3 Empoderamento Progressivo. 2. Implicações para o Direito Internacional. 2.1 Legitimidade. 2.2 Normas Emergentes como Colaboradoras para Legitimidade. 2.2.1Responsabilidade. 2.2.2 Acesso à Informação e Participação. 3 O Direito Internacional como Força Estabilizadora para Abordar Problemas Comuns. Referências.* Artigo baseado em pesquisa apresentada na Segunda Conferência Bienal Geral da Sociedade Asiática de Direito Internacional, Tóquio, Japão, 1 agosto de 2009. Originalmente pulicado em língua inglesa, sob o título International Law in a Kaleidoskopic World, no Asian Journal of International Law, v. 1, 2011, p. 21–32. Agradecemos a editora da Universidade de Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pela autorização e suporte na publicação desta edição em português. Tradução de Tatiana de A. F. Cardoso Squeff, doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Lúcia Souza d’Aquino, doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; e Elisa Soledade Iacconi. ** Professora de Direito Internacional da Georgetown University, Estados Unidos. Ex-presidente da Sociedade Americana de Direito Internacional. </jats:p
Strotocera roberti Gerstmeier & Weiss, n. sp.
No full textStrotocera roberti Gerstmeier & Weiss, n. sp. (Figs. 30, 84– 85) Specimens examined: Holotype: 3. S-Ethiopia, Gamo Gofa X.07, ArbaMinch 1300m, R. Beck, G. Riedel (CRG). Paratypes: Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Côte d’ivoire: Bingerville, X. 1962, J. Decelle (1 ex., MRAC); Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Côte d’ivoire: Bingerville, VI. 1962, J. Decelle, Strotocera, Ginter Ekis det. (1 ex., MRAC); Zimbabwe 2.xii.1993, 20° 13 ’S / 31 °00’E, Kyle, Recr. Park at Lake Mutirikwi, leg. F. Koch (1 ex., ZMB); UNREADBLE, 24.11-26, UNREADABLE (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ndumu, 26.55 S- 32.18 E, 20.11.2002; E-Y: 3550, light trap, leg. J. Harrison, R. Müller (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa, Transvaal, Soutpansberg, Ingwe Motel 22.58 S 29.57 E, 1200m, 23,24. xi. 1992, H. Hölzel, P. Ohm, M.W. Mansell, Collected at light (1 ex., CRG); South Africa MPU, Kampersrus, near Hoedspruit. 24 ° 30 ’S 30 ° 53 ’E, 10.xi. 2005 547m, W. Breytenbach, Collected using a light trap (1 ex., SANC); South Africa Kwa Zulu, Mseleni, Miss. 27.23 S 32.32 E, XI. 1982 P. Reavell (1 ex., SANC); Helio, 19 °03’S., 16 ° 29 ’E., Etosha Nat. Park, 14 Feb.– 23 Mar. 1987, Pres. pitfall traps, E. Griffin, Gyponix sp., det., R. Oberprieler 198 (1 ex., SANC); Tang. Terr., Ukerewe I., Father Conrad (1 ex., BMNH); 4.XI. UNREADABLE, 1585, Tanganyka (Conrads), infranigra n sp, (1 ex., MNHN). Length: 8.6mm – 13.5mm (12 specimens). Head: Black-brown to black; diffusely and densely punctate. Antennae: Reddish brown to black; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A 4 –A 10 serrate. Pronotum: Dark reddish brown; dilated anteriorly, constricted towards base, with more or less six conspicuously elevations on disc and two elevations at base (in middle), finely and diffusely punctate; length:width ratio 1.59: 1. Scutellum: Red-brown to brown. Elytra: Basal third to half reddish brown, each elytron with a whitish lateral spot in the basal third, remainder black with white transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral margins towards suture (but not reaching suture); diameter of punctures within basal half larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, punctures elongate behind fasciae; length:width ratio 2.23: 1. Legs: Brown to black. Lower surface: Head and prothorax dark brown, meso- and metathorax brown, abdomen dark brown to black. Vestiture: With white to yellowish hairs. Distribution: Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Etymology: Named after Robert Beck (Munich); co-collector of the holotype and friend of the senior author. One paratype bares a hand-written label by Pic “infranigra n. sp.”, but was never made available through publication.Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Weiss, Ingmar, 2009, Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae), pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2242 on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19060
Opening Reception
No full textImage includes (from left to right): Keynote Speaker Edith Brown Weiss & Peter Danchinhttps://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/gelc_2012_photos/1013/thumbnail.jp
Opening Reception
No full textImage includes (from left to right): Keynote Speaker Edith Brown Weiss \u26 Peter Danchinhttps://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/gelc_2012_photos/1013/thumbnail.jp
On Being Accountable in a Kaleidoscopic World
No full textIn this lecture, the author explores the concept of accountability in the changing world in which international law operates, and to draw upon my own recent experience chairing the Inspection Panel at the World Bank. In doing so, I want especially to recognize the concerns of poor people and bring their plight into the discussion of accountability.
The world today differs sharply from that when the United Nations was formed, some 65 years ago. In that world, there were only 51 states, few international organizations, a nascent global civil society, only 2 billion people, many of whom lived under colonialism and in poverty, an emerging recognition of human rights, and the glimmerings of globalization. International environmental law, for the most part, did not exist
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Improvement of International Environmental Law and Institutions
No full textReview of Environmental Change and International Law: New Challenges and Dimensions (Edith Brown Weiss ed.), Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection (Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane, & Marc A. Levy eds.), and The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal. by Jamie Cassel
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