The national security argument for protection of domestic industries

Tracing the origin of the national security argument for protection of domestic industries to Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, and Friedrich List, we study its post-GATT applications with reference to Article XXI of the WTO. We compare the use of tariff, production/input subsidy, and government procurement as alternative instruments of protection from the perspective of economic efficiency and study the disapproval of inward FDI to gain insights into the underlying national security concerns. The case studies of a) the US tariffs on aluminum and steel, b) German disapproval of the acquisition of a technology firm Leifeld Metal Spinning by a Chinese firm, and c) US’ all out global effort to cripple China’s telecom equipment giant Huawei are presented for illustration

Training Young Lawyers to be Conservators of Legal Institutions & the Rule of Law

Article published in the Michigan State Law Review

The Legal, Political, and Social Implications of the Death Penalty

A recent national poll found that sixty-five percent of Americans favor the death penalty. That\u27s down from eighty percent ten years ago. Moreover, the total favoring the death penalty dropped to fifty percent when those polled were asked to assume that thealternative to the death penalty was life in prison with no chance of parole. And, the number of death sentences imposed in the United States during the last few years has dropped to the lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated thirty years ago. Thus, it would seem that our society\u27s attitude toward capital punishment is changing. What was once routine is now exceptional, and what was once virtually unquestioned is now questioned. Along with abortion and the war on terror, capital punishment implicates not only legal, but social and political issues as well. We\u27ll be talking about these issues and how our society has dealt with them in the past, and how it is dealing with them now