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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Federal Parole and Sentencing: A Report on the Present and Some Thoughts for the Future
(Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1982)In the past fifteen years an almost unanimous consensus has developed over the need for sentencing reform. Critics have maintained that the unregulated discretion currently granted judges fosters extensive and unwarranted ... -
Law Free Zones: A Panel Discussion
(The University of Kansas School of Law, 2005)Professor Gottlieb prepared this essay for a panel discussion held at the University of Kansas School of Law on September 9, 2005. -
Katrina Consequences: What Has the Government Learned?
(Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2006)Eleven months ago, the nation witnessed Hurricane Katrina, perhaps the worst "natural" disaster to have occurred on American soil. The failures at all levels of government to cope, in a minimally competent way, with the ... -
Wilson v. Seiter: Less than Meets the Eye
(Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1999)In 1991 the United States Supreme Court revisited the question of the general standards that are required in eighth amendment conditions-of-confinement litigation. In Wilson v. Seiter, the Court declared that, in an eighth ... -
Chapter 10: The Constitutionality of the Sentencing Guidelines
(Aspen Publishers, 2010)A survey of case law and decisions related to then-recent implementation of the Sentencing Guidelines to criminal cases in Federal Court. -
An Analysis of Recent Changes in Kansas Drunk Driving Laws
(1986)For the past several years the problem of drunk driving has become of increasingly intense public concern. In response to this concern, the Kansas Legislature has passed major amendments to the drunk driving laws. The most ... -
Voice-Onset-Time in the Perception of Foreign Accent by Native Listeners of Spanish
(Walter de Gruyter, 1997)Determines the extent to which the variation of temporal characteristics of stops in a particular Spanish utterance spoken by an English speaker had a noticeable effect on the perception of foreignness of speech. Range in ... -
Virtues, the Chinese Yuan, and the American Trade Empire
(University of Hong Kong, 2008)The relative foreign exchange valuation of the yuan, or renminbi, against the dollar is one of the longest-running and highest profile battles between the United States and China. What does the dispute, and America’s ... -
Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice
(National Law University, Jodhpur (India), 2009)Book review, Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2009). -
Description of the female of Rhadinopsylla media Smit (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsyllidae)
(Journal of Medical Entomology, 1977-01-31)Rhadinsopsylla media Smit, 1957, previously was known from only 7 specimens, all males. Eighteen additional specimens of this species, including 12 females, were examined from northern Minnesota and Isle Royale, Michigan. ... -
Equilibrium Theory, the FICAS Model, and International Banking Law
(Harvard Law School, 1997)[...] Conventional wisdom finds that international banking law is an applied field. In contrast to a traditional field like constitutional law, in which well-developed bodies of literature exist that draw upon feminist ... -
Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Three of a Trilogy – Trade Remedies and Facilitation
(University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2012-04-02)This article is the third and final part of a trilogy, the argument of which is that the Doha Round is a failed instrument of counterterrorism. The Round, launched in November, 2001, was supposed to make the world safe for ... -
Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Two of a Trilogy – Non-Agricultural Market Access and Services Trade
(Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2012-02-23)The title of the Trilogy on the Doha Round, of which this article is Part Two, connotes the general argument: the Round is a failed instrument of counter-terrorism. The Round, launched in November 2001, was supposed to ... -
Philosophical, Religious, and Legalistic Perspectives on Equal Human Dignity and U.S. Free Trade Agreements
(St. Louis University School of Law, 2008)What would international trade law, and particularly free trade agreements (FTAs) of the United States, look like if the dominant paradigm for their negotiation, drafting, implementation and enforcement shifted from economics ... -
Resurrecting the Doha Round: Devilish Details, Grand Themes, and China Too
(University of Texas, 2011-04-07)The multilateral trading system embodied in the World Trade Organization has contributed significantly to economic growth, development and employment throughout the past fifty years. We are determined, particularly in the ... -
Doha Round Schisms: Numerous, Technical, and Deep
(Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2008)[...] This article chronicles the schisms in the Doha Round, which was launched in November 2001 in the Qatari capital, with resoluteness to fight back in the international economic arena against terrorism. Yet, many of ... -
WTO Case Review 2003
(University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 2004)This WTO Case Review is the fourth in an annual series on the substantive international trade adjudications rendered by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body. Each Review explains and comments on the Appellate ... -
WTO Case Review 2001
(University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 2002)This is the second in an annual series of articles reviewing the "reports" (decisions) of the Appellate Body, the highest judicial entity of the World Trade Organization, in this instance covering the reports adopted by ... -
WTO Case Review 2004
(University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 2011-04-19)This WTO Case Review is the fifth in an annual series on the substantive international trade adjudications rendered by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body. Each Review explains and comments on the Appellate ... -
WTO Case Review 2002
(The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 2003)This is a third in an annual series of articles reviewing the "reports" (decisions) of the Appellate Body, the highest judicial entity of the World Trade Organization. Since its inception in 1995, the Appellate Body has ...
