Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies articles from January 2006

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies archives from January 2006

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: a great mistake?
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article discusses the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and questions its" role and value. The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea seems to contemplate fairly extensive jurisdiction for the Tribunal, but since...

The use and misuse of comparative constitutional law.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article examines the extent and nature of the use of foreign law in constitutional adjudication in common law systems outside the United States, with special reference to Australia. Demonstrating that the courts of other...

Workers' rights provisions in fast track authority, 1974-2007: an historical perspective and current analysis.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article examines the trajectory of workers" rights provisions in "fast track" authority legislation allowing the U.S. president to negotiate free trade agreements that Congress can only approve or reject, not amend. I begin...

Making visible the invisible: strategies for responding to globalization's impact on immigrant workers in the United States.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article explores the impact of globalization on immigrant workers in the United States. Although Congress created programs to provide vocational training services and cash allowances to workers who qualified by virtue of...

Beyond a snapshot: preventing human trafficking in the global economy.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Current legal responses to the problem of human trafficking often reflect a deep reluctance to address the socioeconomic root causes of the problem. Because they approach trafficking as an act (or series of acts) of violence, most...

Protecting families in a global economy.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours...

The organization of care work in Italy: gender and migrant labor in the new economy.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article discusses social, political, and economic aspects--particularly, gender and race-based implications--of the organization of elder care work in Italy and globally. Care work for the elderly is a particularly acute...

The new politics of linkage: India's opposition to the workers' rights clause.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article examines why India has opposed a World Trade Organization (WTO) workers' rights clause, and calls for a new way of thinking about international institutions and the link between trade and labor rights. Many labor...

The parallel worlds of corporate governance and labor law.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper engages the concept of transnational law (TL) in a way that goes beyond the by now accustomed usages with regard to the development of legal norms and the observation of legal action across nation-state boundaries,...