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Ontario Court of Appeal Upholds NAFTA Chapter 11 Award

On January 11, 2005, the Ontario Court of Appeal issued a judgment in the case involving the United Mexican States (Mexico) and Marvin Feldman Karpa (Feldman).[1]Justice Robert Armstrong of the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Justice Dan Chilcott's decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.[2] Justice Armstrong accepted Justice Chilcott's finding that the NAFTA Tribunal's US$1.6 million ruling against Mexico[3] should be given a high degree of deference and that Mexico had not shown any basis upon which to interfere with the arbitration award.
 
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9
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6
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Rajeev Sharma and Adam Goodman
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The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones) in United Nations Peacekeeping: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Inspired by the successes of unmanned drone (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) surveillance of western countries, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations towards the end of 2012 announced that it intended to actually begin using such technology in peacekeeping operations.[1] Subsequently, in January 2013, the UN announced that it would deploy UAVs for surveillance in the Kivu provinces (North and South) of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) “to improve awareness and promote deterrence to those who move ar

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13
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Kasaija Phillip Apuuli
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The Slow Demise of Impunity in Argentina and Chile

A series of extraordinary and closely inter-related judicial and non-judicial developments have unfolded in Chile and Argentina during the course of the past 12 months. Some thirty years since State-orchestrated civilian repression led to the disappearance, torture and death of thousands of individuals in both countries, leaving profound and still unhealed societal scars, the heretofore seemingly entrenched impunity for those offenses is only now being eroded.    
 
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9
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1
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Peter A. Barcroft
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Sealing the Deal: The WTO’s Appellate Body Report in EC – Seal Products

On May 22, 2014, the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body (AB) issued its report in the EC – Seal Products dispute.[1] The decision arose from complaints by Canada and Norway against a legislative scheme adopted by the European Union (EU) in 2009 to prohibit the importation and marketing of seal products (EU Seal Regime).[2]

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18
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12
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Rob Howse, Joanna Langille, and Katie Sykes
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