Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies articles from June 2003

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies archives from June 2003

Examining the (non-)status of NGOs in international law.
June 22, 2003... Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly influential players on the international scene. Since the end of the Cold War, NGOs have enjoyed increasingly easy access to, and better possibilities to affect, political processes taking...

Normative creativity and global legal pluralism: reflections on the democratic critique of transnational law.
June 22, 2003... The globalization process has changed the nature of the "social." Social interactions have become much more varied and flexible--transgressing traditional political and cultural boundaries (and expectations). The emergence of new forms of...

Mitigating human rights risks under state-financed and privatized infrastructure projects.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Infrastructure projects undertaken in developing countries and transition societies are presently sites of intense human rights struggles. For instance, public outcry resulting from a well-orchestrated non-governmental...

A critical methodology of globalization: politics of the 21st century?
June 22, 2003... With international protests against globalization occurring almost as frequently as the term "globalization" is uttered, the fundamental question of what globalization is seems to have been eclipsed by promulgations of its arrival....

Lessons from Stockholm: evaluating the global convention on persistent organic pollutants.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION On May 22, 2001, representatives from over 120 countries signed a new treaty in Stockholm, Sweden, regulating the "dirty dozen" persistent organic pollutants (POPs)--some of the most dangerous chemicals in the world. (1) POPs...

Changing identities and changing law: possibilities for a global legal culture.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION The 2002 World Cup provided a symbolic moment in the evolving relationship of identity and the nation-state. The source was the Polish squad, one of the teams hoping to create a stir in that summer of fine football. Still...

From reluctant champion to development ringmaster: managing the expanding mission of the World Bank.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION In the last decade, the World Bank has catapulted from relative obscurity in its work to alleviate global poverty to centrality in the latest controversies over development, economic interdependence, and the global economy....

Prescriptive jurisdiction over Internet activity: the need to define and establish the boundaries of cyberliberty.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Globalization occurs at the nexus of politics, culture, technology, finance, national security, and ecology. (1) "Globalization" refers to the increasingly "complex, dynamic legal and social processes" occurring throughout the...

Reconciling human rights and sovereignty: a framework for global property law.
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION In the wake of the massive destruction and notorious human rights abuses of World War II, the nations of the world made a widely supported commitment to protecting human rights. Fundamental to this agreement was the...