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A Perplexing Paradox: De-Statification of Investor-State Dispute Settlement?
No full textExpanding on panel discussions at the Atlanta Arbitration Society\u27s Third Annual Conference, Enhancing Business Opportunities in Africa, Professor Becky L. Jacobs critically examines demands that states be removed from investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Professor Jacobs considers various critiques of, and reforms or adjustments to, existing ISDS systems that relate to states\u27 rights to pursue legitimate public policy objectives. In reviewing data and details of African state involvement in ISDS, Professor Jacobs highlights an apparent \u27diversity deficit\u27 in the participation of African nationals as arbitrators and counsel in investment arbitrations, as well as proposals to include African nationals in ISDS systems
A Perplexing Paradox: De-Statification of Investor-State Dispute Settlement?
No full textExpanding on panel discussions at the Atlanta Arbitration Society\u27s Third Annual Conference, Enhancing Business Opportunities in Africa, Professor Becky L. Jacobs critically examines demands that states be removed from investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Professor Jacobs considers various critiques of, and reforms or adjustments to, existing ISDS systems that relate to states\u27 rights to pursue legitimate public policy objectives. In reviewing data and details of African state involvement in ISDS, Professor Jacobs highlights an apparent \u27diversity deficit\u27 in the participation of African nationals as arbitrators and counsel in investment arbitrations, as well as proposals to include African nationals in ISDS systems
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Professor Becky Jacobs\u27 Comments on Dean Anderson\u27s Presentation
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A Series of Unfortunate Events in Rio, or, What I did on my Summer Vacation
No full textThis essay describes a particular “day in the life” of the author in Rio de Janeiro and explores how it could be perceived as a series of experiential metonyms for a number of concepts related to the authority and influence of law in Brazilian society
Suffering in Search of a Methodological Frame: Interdisciplinarity in the Context of the Gendered Impact of Climate Migration
No full textIn this essay, the author places the gendered impact of climate migration within the methodological frame of scholars such as geographers Sylvia Winters and Doreen Massey, historian Achille Mbembe, philosopher Gilles Deleuze, philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, and anthropologist Tim Ingold. The author discusses the importance of interdisciplinarity and describes the gender-specific risks related to climate displacement before delving into theory
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Suffering in Search of a Methodological Frame: Interdisciplinarity in the Context of the Gendered Impact of Climate Migration
No full textIn this essay, the author places the gendered impact of climate migration within the methodological frame of scholars such as geographers Sylvia Winters and Doreen Massey, historian Achille Mbembe, philosopher Gilles Deleuze, philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, and anthropologist Tim Ingold. The author discusses the importance of interdisciplinarity and describes the gender-specific risks related to climate displacement before delving into theory
At limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica
No full textData source: Supporting information, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044578#s5Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth. In this study, we describe and interpret the linkage between the diversity of different trophic level communities to the geological morphology and soil geochemistry in the remote Transantarctic Mountains (Darwin Mountains, 80uS). We examined the distribution and diversity of biota (bacteria, cyanobacteria, lichens, algae, invertebrates) with respect to elevation, age of glacial drift sheets, and soil physicochemistry. Results showed an abiotic spatial gradient with respect to the diversity of the organisms across different trophic levels. More complex communities, in terms of trophic level diversity, were related to the weakly developed younger drifts (Hatherton and Britannia) with higher soil C/N ratio and lower total soluble salts content (thus lower conductivity). Our results indicate that an increase of ion concentration from younger to older drift regions drives a succession of complex to more simple communities, in terms of number of trophic levels and diversity within each group of organisms analysed. This study revealed that integrating diversity across multi-trophic levels of biotic communities with abiotic spatial heterogeneity and geological history is fundamental to understand environmental constraints influencing biological distribution in Antarctic soil ecosystems.Catarina Magalhães, Mark I. Stevens, S. Craig Cary, Becky A. Ball, Bryan C. Storey, Diana H. Wall, Roman Tűrk and Ulrike Ruprech
Brazil\u27s Agricultural Trade War: Success and Failure on the Southern Route to Antarctica
No full textThis short article tracks Brazil\u27s emergence as a central force in the mobilization of the G20 Plus, a block of developing nations committed to global agricultural trade reform. The article also considers Brazil\u27s performance on the battlefield[s] of commerce and concludes with some thoughts regarding the constituencies for whom Brazil ostensibly is waging this war on the southern route to Antarctica
Pesification and Economic Crisis in Argentina: The Moral Hazard Posed by a Politicized Supreme Court
No full textIn March 2003, the Supreme Court of Argentina declared unconstitutional the controversial Presidential Pesification Decree, which forcibly converted billions in U.S. dollar-denominated bank deposits into pesos. This issue has subjected an already controversial Court to heightened scrutiny and criticism. The pesification appeal presented a true Morton\u27s Fork (or Catch 22) for the Court. This article offers one view on the causes and consequences of the Court\u27s dilemma. It first will explore the roots of Argentina\u27s latest economic crisis and will review recent news and events. Next, it will provide a brief history of the legal framework in which these events transpired, including a discussion of Argentina\u27s Constitution, its Supreme Court, and the role of constitutional interpretation in a civil law setting. The article finally will consider the Supreme Court\u27s ruling on the pesification decree and possible alternate scenarios available in the Court. Additionally, it will ponder the risks and rewards associated therewith
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