Volume 34, Issue 3: Summer 2012

Spring Lecture 2013

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Spring Lecture 2013

The Houston Journal of International Law Presents:
“The Impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Fighting Global Corruption”

April 8, 2013, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at JW Marriott Hotel, 5150 Westheimer Rd., Houston, Texas 77056
Featuring Special Guest Speaker: Richard Dean.

Mr. Dean is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker & McKenzie. His area of focus is on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related litigation, including U.S. money laundering laws and their application to the activities of global companies in emerging markets around the world.

Issues

Volume 33, Number 1: Fall 2010

June 14, 2012 admin

Volume 33, Number 1: Fall 2010

ARTICLES

Guy S. Lipe & Timothy J. Tyler, The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: Creating Room for Choice in International Cases

Kevin O’Gorman & Efren C. Olivares, The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: An Update After Abbott

COMMENTS

Zachary J. Lee, Wrestling with Mexican Criminal Procedure: How Law Schools in the United States and Mexico can Team Up to Rebuild Mexico’s Criminal Trial

Stefanie Vincent, Medical Repatriation: A Fourteenth Amendment Analysis of the International Patient Transferring of Illegal Aliens

D. Bradley Gibbs, Future Relations Between the United States and Japan: Article 9 and The Remilitarization of Japan

Sophia Asare, “This Land Cannot Die”: U.S. Involvement in the Rebuilding of Haiti

Issues

Volume 33, Number 2: Spring 2011

June 14, 2012 admin

Volume 33, Number 2: Spring 2011

ARTICLES

Julián Cárdenas García, Rebalancing Oil Contracts in Venezuela

Miriam Grunstein, United We Stand, Divided We Fall: A Mexican Response to Karla Urdaneta’s Analysis of Transboundary Petroleum Reservoirs in the Deep Waters of the Gulf of Mexico

Scott Looper, Take-or-Pay Crisis V2.0: What Wind Power Generators and Providers Failed to Learn From Gas Pipelines’ 1980 Dilemma

Susan L. Sakmar, The Global Shale Gas Initiative: Will the United States be the Role Model for the Development of Shale Gas Around the World?

COMMENTS

Zachary J. Lee, The Silver Lining to a Cloudy Situation: How Mexico’s Bumbling Modernization of Pemex is Spurring Development of Renewable Energy

Michael E. Streich, Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009: A “Fit”-ing Policy for North America?

Christine Traversi, The Inadequacies of the 1997 Convention on International Water Courses and 2008 Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers

Katie Zaunbrecher, Pac Rim Cayman v. Republic of El Salvador: Confronting Free Trade’s Chilling Effect on Environmental Progress in Latin America

Featured, Issues

Volume 33, Number 3: Summer 2011

June 13, 2012 admin

Volume 33, Number 3: Summer 2011

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Ryan D. McConnell, Jay Martin, and Charlotte Simon, Plan Now or Pay Later: The Role of Compliance in Criminal Cases

Richard Deutsch, An ICSID Tribunal Denies Jurisdiction for Failure to Satisfy BIT’s “Cooling-Off” Period: Further Evidence of a Sea Change in Investor-State Arbitration or a Meaningless Riddle?

David L. VanderZwaag, The Precautionary Approach and the International Control of Toxic Chemicals: Beacon of Hope, Sea of Confusion and Dilution

Brad Richards and Peter Ruggero, Exiting China: Procedures to Ensure the Orderly Liquidation of a Business

COMMENTS

W. Robert Hand, Continental Joins the (All)Star Alliance: Antitrust Concerns with Airline Alliances and Open-Skies Treaties

Katie L. Zaunbrecher, When Culture Hurts: Dispelling the Myth of Cultural Justification for Gender-Based Human Rights Violations

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June 1, 2011 admin

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Issues

Volume 32, Number 3: Summer 2010

October 16, 2010 admin

ARTICLES

Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., A Practical Guide to International Sanctions Law and Lore: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Sanctions Lawyers

Michael LaFlame, Jr., The European Patent System: An Overview & Critique

Luis E. Cuervo, The Uncertain Fate of Venezuela’s Black Pearl: The Petrostate and Its Ambiguous Oil & Gas Legislation

COMMENTS

Amber Crossman Cheng, All in the Same Boat? Indigenous Property Rights in Underwater Cultural Heritage

Drew Tedford, Silent No More: The Logan Act as a Constitutionally Enforceable Tool in Foreign Policy

Lana Ljuboja, Justice in an Uncooperative World: ICTY and ICTR Foreshadow ICC Ineffectiveness