Environment

Dispute Concerning Japan’s JARPA II Program of “Scientific Whaling” (Australia v. Japan)

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14
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20
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Donald K. Anton
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Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay: The International Court of Justice Recognizes Environmental Impact Assessment as a Duty under International Law

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14
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9
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Cymie R. Payne
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Climate Change and Guidelines for Argo Profiling Float Deployment on the High Seas

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14
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8
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Aurora Mateos & Montserrat Gorina-Ysern
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The Responsibility to Protect Haiti

Introduction

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14
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7
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Linda A. Malone
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The WTO Seal Products Dispute: A Preview of the Key Legal Issues

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14
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2
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Simon Lester
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Who’s Going to Copenhagen?: The Rise of Civil Society in International Treaty-Making

The Climate in Copenhagen

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13
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25
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Anna Spain
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International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles of a Transboundary Aquifers Convention

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12
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18
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Kerstin Mechlem
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The Bali Climate Change Conference

The Bali Roadmap marks a milestone in the process of international consensus building, setting forth a multilateral legal framework to address climate change. Delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali (Dec. 3-15 2007) launched a two-year process with a comprehensive agenda and 2009 deadline to complete negotiations for a post-2012 agreement.

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12
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4
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Elizabeth Burleson
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Russia's Claim in the Arctic and the Vexing Issue of Ridges in UNCLOS

On August 2, 2007, Russian explorers in a submersible planted their national flag on the seabed below the North Pole in symbolic support of Russia's 2001 claim relating to its extended continental shelf. This claim was first made on December 20, 2001 in the context of Russia's submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) in accordance with Article 76(8) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

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11
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27
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Marc Benitah
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