Georgetown Journal of International Law articles from March 2007

Georgetown Journal of International Law archives from March 2007

Flattening the world of legal services? The ethical and liability minefields of offshoring legal and law-related services.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Globalization recently has been described by Thomas Friedman as "flattening" the world through a combination of technology and "geoeconomics," resulting in a shift in the way work is accomplished and enabling new collaboration...

Global solution for cross-border data transfers: Making the case for corporate privacy rules.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION Technology has radically changed the manner in which information flows around the world. Global transfers of information are now a common and essential component of our daily lives. Sharing information allows businesses to...

Intellectual property in global sourcing: the art of the transfer.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION As globalization continues its explosive growth, companies from across industry sectors continue to adopt a globalized strategy of sourcing products, services, and domain expertise from lower-cost countries such as India...

Incrementalism: eroding the impediments to a global public procurement market.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION After centuries of isolationism, the world's public procurement markets are emerging as a progressively integrated, open market. This trend accelerates as nations agree--by treaty, agreement, and practice-to--open their...

Commercialization in defense sourcing and other responses to post-cold war defense industry transformation.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION The global defense industry, centuries in the making, has undergone a fundamental transformation in the last 15 years. This transformation is characterized by two key phenomena: First, there has been an unprecedented...

The impact of globalization on structuring, implementing, and advising on sourcing arrangements.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION Globalization may have its discontents, but it is rapidly re-ordering the sourcing landscape. (1) Over the last decade, globalization and its economic and social impacts have been widely reported on, analyzed, theorized...

"O, privacy" Canada's importance in the development of the international data privacy regime.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION As e-commerce and international outsourcing rapidly expands, the governments of the leading Western industrial nations are making every effort to balance protection of their citizens' personal information with governmental...

Government regulated data privacy: the challenge for global outsourcers.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION The globalization revolution is undeniably well underway. Some of the primary leaders of the revolution are the off-shoring outsourcers of the world in search of readily available talent at prices below what is available in...

Supply-side/manufacturing outsourcing - strategies and negotiations.
March 22, 2007... "As for the Future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1) Supply-side, or manufacturing, outsourcing has increased dramatically over the past two decades, evolving from a cost saving...

Outward bound: considering the business and legal implications of international outsourcing.
March 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION The international or "offshore" outsourcing of business processes and technology services allows a company to cut costs, take advantage of improved technology, and concentrate its resources on its core competencies. The...