Houston Journal of International Law articles from September 2000

Houston Journal of International Law archives from September 2000

Mexico's foreign investment regulations of 1998.
September 22, 2000... FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 1. Why should U.S. legal practitioners and international investors become familiar with Mexico's 1998 Foreign Investment Regulations? Familiarity with Mexico's Foreign Investment Regulations is important...

The Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods in United States courts.
September 22, 2000... The Convention, faute de mieux, will often be applied by tribunals (fudges or arbitrators) who often will be intimately familiar only with their own domestic law. These tribunals, regardless of their merit, will be subject to a natural tendency...

Sustainable development: a strategy that reflects the effects of globalization on the international power structure.
September 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION All day they've raced round in the heat, at top speeds, Unsuccessfully trying to sell Zizzer-Zoof Seeds, Which nobody wants because nobody needs.(1) The proponents of sustainable development, like the sellers of...

Might a future tuna embargo withstand a WTO challenge in light of the recent shrimp-turtle ruling?(World Trade Organization)
September 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION Since the inception of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("GATT") and the establishment of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), few environmental trade measures have withstood challenges from countries under...

The winners and the losers: the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and its effects on developing countries.
September 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION These are changing times in the global economy. With the opening of the international market and the increased ease with which goods, capital, and ideas flow around the world, new opportunities for industrialization and...

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post-Cold War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... THE COMING ANARCHY; SHATTERING THE DREAMS OF THE POST-COLD WAR By Robert D. Kaplan, Random House, 2000. Pp. 185. $21.95 Our pro forma geopolitical worldview that served for fifty years of the Cold War was thoroughly shattered with the...