CRIMINALIZING CORRUPTION: THE GLOBAL INITIATIVES

THE CHAPTER REVIEWS THE UNITED NATIONAL CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION (UNCAC)AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVES IN AFRICA, EUROPE, THE AMERICAS AND ASIA-PACIFIC REGION. IT CRITICALLY REVIEWS THE SCOPE OF THE KEY PROVISIONS OF THE UNCAC AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MONITORING PROCEDURES

Public Policy under the New York Convention - Bridges between Domestic and International Courts and Private and Public International Law

Controversy continues over the “public policy” exception set out in the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Claims are still made regarding the sharpness of distinctions between national and international law and private international law and public international law. Populist assertions of sovereignty have given these supposed distinctions even greater salience. A closer assessment of national and international law suggests, however, that the distinctions are not as sharp as some have contended

Developing countries, trade, and human rights: Free trade agreements, development needs, and the European Union's Generalized System of Preferences

Preferential trade arrangements, principally free trade agreements and trade preferences for developing countries offered pursuant to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), have been used by the United States and the European Union to link international trade and human rights formally. Recent developments include the adoption by the Council of the European Union (EU) on July 22, 2008, of Council Regulation (EC) No. 732/2008. This regulation continues, with slight modification, the arrangements established under Council Regulation (EC) No. 980/2005. The 2005 regulation was itself the EU’s response to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body’s decision in European Communities – Conditions for the Granting of Tariff Preferences to Developing Countries. Other important developments have included the continuing evolution of the labor chapters of free trade agreements (FTAs) entered by the United States. The extent of this evolution is apparent when one compares recent FTAs, such as that negotiated with the Republic of Korea in 2007, with earlier FTAs and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), which is a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)