Law School Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 8 Growth, Development, and Poverty (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Does participation in cross-border importation, exportation, and direct and portfolio investment enhance human well-being? In particular, does international trade stimulate economic growth and development, and does it ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 7 Free Trade Agreements, Labor, and Environment (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)If the question is, “what areas of International Trade Law are blazing?,” then Volume Seven encompasses the answer: free trade agreements (FTAs), labor, and environment. With no end in sight to decades of paralysis at the ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 6 Special Sectors (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Every trading nation has “sensitive sectors.” They are the areas of economic endeavor a country desires to insulate from the competition of freely-traded exports. The sensitivities may be based on cultural legacies (think ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 5 Remedies (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Every trading nation has “sensitive sectors.” They are the areas of economic endeavor a country desires to insulate from the competition of freely-traded exports. The sensitivities may be based on cultural legacies (think ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 4 National Security (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)The significance of the link between trade and national security cannot be overstated. While it is a link dating to ancient times (as Volume One observes), in the post-Cold War era, it is fair to say trade policy is national ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 3 Customs Law (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Volume Three, Customs Law, is about a (maybe the) “bread-and-butter” specialty within International Trade Law, namely, the clearance of merchandise exported from one country into the customs territory of another country. ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 2 Fundamental Multilateral Obligations (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Volume Two, Fundamental Multilateral Obligations, provides in-depth coverage of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO). International Trade Law springs from, and operates at, ... -
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 1 Interdisciplinary Foundations (6th edition)
(Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas, 2024-05-24)Volume One, Interdisciplinary Foundations, carefully explains the rich, diverse intellectual heritage of international trade. Part One sets the tone for this and the remaining Volumes, laying out 10 themes – including the ... -
Ethical, legal, and social issues in the Earth BioGenome Project
(Frontiers Media, 2022-01-18)The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is an audacious endeavor to obtain whole-genome sequences of representatives from all eukaryotic species on Earth. In addition to the project’s technical and organizational challenges, it ... -
Labor Unions, Cartelization, and Arbitration: Replacing At-Will Employment With Arbitration of Employee Grievances
(Penn State Arbitration Law Review, 2020-12)This Article shows that while a significant amount of commercial arbitration occurred at each stage of U.S. history, labor arbitration was extremely rare until the 20th century, and remained uncommon until the New Deal of ... -
Paternalism or Gender-Neutrality?
(Connecticut Law Review, 2020-08)The strong and widely-accepted reasons for using gender-neutral language presumptively apply to the gendered word paternalism and its gender-neutral counterpart, parentalism. So this article’s thesis is that legal scholars ... -
Groundwater Management: The Movement Toward Local, Communityh-Based, Voluntary Programs
(Kansas Jounral of Law and Public Policy, 2019)Worldwide, groundwater aquifers are under stress. Conflicts abound.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports this to be true in the United States as well. For decades, American state governments facing the problem have ... -
Water Allocation Law and the Oil and Gas Industry in Kansas: An Update to the 1981 Neufeld Article
(Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, 2012)The Spring 1981 issue of the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association contained Eva Neufeld's article "The Kansas Water Appropriation Statutes and Their Effect Upon the Oil and Gas Industry in Kansas" (the 1981 Article).' We ... -
Interpreting Interpretation: Textual, Contextual, and Pragmatic Interpretative Methods fo International Trade Law
(Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2020, 2020-03)The conventional wisdom as to how the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body must interpret disputed terms in a treaty is incomplete, and even potentially misleading. The conventional wisdom says the Appellate ... -
The WTO's Under-Capacity to Deal with Global Over-Capacity
(Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, 2019-04)As evidenced by World Trade Organization (hereinafter “WTO”) reform proposals, efforts are underway to revise critical features of International Trade Law at the multilateral level. Such efforts are not in a vacuum. Rather, ... -
Two Dimensional Hard-Soft Law Theory and the Advancement of Women's and LGBTQ+ Rights Through Free Trade Agreements
(Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2019)What should free trade agreements (FTAs) say about gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity? No longer is “nothing” the only answer. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for a Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) ... -
Whose Burden Is It Anyway? Protecting ERISA from an Unnecessary Burden-Shifting Framework
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The WTO’s Under-Capacity To Deal With Global Over-Capacity
(AJWH, 2019-03)As evidenced by World Trade Organization (hereinafter “WTO”) reform proposals, efforts are underway to revise critical features of International Trade Law at the multilateral level. Such efforts are not in a vacuum. Rather, ... -
Lessons About NAFTA Renegotiations from Shakespeare's Othello: From the Three Amigos to America as Iago?
(Maryland Journal of International Law, 2018)The “Three Amigos” is a common characterization of relations among the North American countries, particularly since 1 January 1994 when the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) entered into force, superseding a ... -
Private Ordering and Commercial Arbitration: Lasting Lessons from Mentschikoff
(Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2019)“Private ordering” is an important concept and commonly-used phrase in legal scholarship. At least three “ordering” activities often performed by governments can be privatized: lawmaking, adjudication, and enforcement of ...