Georgetown Journal of International Law articles from January 2008

Georgetown Journal of International Law archives from January 2008

The European Union's institutional balance after the Treaty of Lisbon: "community method" and "democratic deficit" reassessed.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION: COMMUNITY METHOD AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION A. The Community Method B. The Democratic Deficit II. THE EU's TREATY FRAMEWORK AND THE TREATY OF LISBON A. The EU's Currently...

A demandeur-centric approach to regime design in transnational commercial law.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Recent scholarship on international agreement design has almost exclusively focused on the public international law area. (1) The literature on regime design in the area of international private law (2) lacks a solid...

Human rights in the age of terrorism: the democratic dialogue in action.
January 1, 2008... The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these. Thus declared my colleague, Lord Hoffmann, in a...

Women workers in Mexico: using the international human rights framework to achieve labor protection.
January 1, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION Working women around the world are subject to discrimination in the workplace, such as being paid less than men for the same work, sexual harassment, and pregnancy discrimination. (1) Gender discrimination is pervasive in...