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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges on the road toward a multilateral investment court

, 2017
Growing criticism over investor-state arbitration has led to demands for reform from various countries, international organizations and civil society groups. This Perspective addresses one option, the creation of a multilateral investment court, and reviews the main challenges that the establishment of such a court would have to master to succeed.
Kaufmann-Kohler, Gabrielle, Potestà, Michele   +1 more
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Whose knowledge, whose cure? traditional medicine and the boundaries of WIPO's 2024 genetic resources treaty

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional medicine—including complementary, integrative, Indigenous, and ancestral practices—remains a vital source of healthcare for billions worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Despite its widespread use and biomedical relevance, traditional medicinal knowledge has long been excluded from dominant intellectual property systems ...
Tolulope Anthony Adekola
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
wiley   +1 more source

Advocating a Hybrid Framework for the Multilateral Investment Court: Operationalising the Rule of Law

SSRN Electronic Journal
In recent history, investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) has faced extensive criticism that largely stems from its alleged failure to promote key aspects of the rule of law. In response to the serious backlash against ISDS, various suggestions for reform have been put forward. One of the leading proposals tabled is the potential establishment of a
Butler, Nicolette, Tarawneh, Jasem
openaire   +3 more sources

Opening the doors: Legal consequences of breaching international climate obligations in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract In its landmark advisory opinion on States' obligations regarding climate change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tackled the highly contentious issue of the legal consequences of unlawful acts and State responsibility. While the Court adopted a more cautious approach on this matter than it did when interpreting States' primary ...
Yann Kerbrat, Sandrine Maljean‐Dubois
wiley   +1 more source

Situating the ICJ's advisory opinion in the wider ecosystem of international climate litigation

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract Although international climate cases are a relatively recent phenomenon, the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) climate advisory opinion enters an increasingly well‐populated ecosystem of international climate jurisprudence. The ICJ's ruling, along with those of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the Inter ...
Jacqueline Peel
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil fuel feuds and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) breaks new ground by clearly identifying fossil fuel production, licensing and subsidisation among the activities to which international climate change obligations apply, going as far as suggesting that such activities may ...
Harro van Asselt, Tejas Rao
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates.
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
wiley   +1 more source