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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Treaty Obligations"”.
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The Interpretation of Bilateral Tax Treaties: Changing Tax Law – Unchanging Treaty Obligations?
… extensive analyses of principles for temporal treaty interpretation drawn from international law, and as enumerated in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), as well as legal sources and interpretive techniques typically employed by domestic courts in cases selected for analysis. …
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Has criminalisation of the master subverted the aim of International Pollution Instruments to impose uniformity on the consequences of ship-source pollution?
… in a manner that is not consistent with their treaty obligations. It brings into question whether international pollution instruments' objective to impose uniformity in their application is subverted by states who impose sanctions on the Master, which defies the aim of the pollution instruments …
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The presidency and environmental policymaking: A critical assessment of George Bush
… of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments and the treaty obligations the United States consented to at the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED). The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments required presidential execution of new emission mandates in order to achieve …
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A comparative study of the environmental laws of India and the UK with special reference to their enforcement
… restructuring various environmental laws to meet treaty obligations, introducing incentive based instruments for pollution abatement and adopting a cooperative approach to enforcement of the environmental laws. India may positively draw lessons from the UK in these areas. The UK may draw …
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The recycling of people from nowhere, from nothing, for justice: The paradox of policing truth and reconciliation in Western Canada through a clash of state-mandated systemic injustice and hegemony of Indigenous knowledge
… reciprocal relational approaches, Numbered Treaty Obligations, or numerous inquiries that have produced the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC), National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice (NIMMIWG), and the United Nations Declaration on …
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China and Iran: Maritime Claims Backed by Developing Naval Forces and the Implications for U.S. Naval Forces
… for the U.S. who has the duty to both meet treaty obligations to defend allies and to protect the Global Commons which will require articulated strategy and material investment in naval capabilities for the region.
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Leviathan on a Leash: a political theory of state responsibility
… contemporary forms of state responsibility, from treaty obligations to historical reparations. The book will be the first monograph in political theory about state responsibility, as well as the first work that covers both the ethical and legal aspects of the subject. The primary audience will be …
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Towards the legal protection of married women: Combating and criminalising marital rape in Kenya
… argues that Kenya has a duty to honour her State obligations under international human rights law to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. The dissertation concludes that by not criminalising marital rape, Kenya has failed to satisfy her treaty obligations under International Human Rights …
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Models Of Infringement:the Commission Of The European Union And Its Relationship With European Union Member States
… suspected and actual Member State violations of treaty obligations offers such a variable. Using data drawn from a variety of sources including the European Commission itself and a framework of research drawn from Mbaye's Why National States Comply with Supranational Law (2001) this thesis finds …
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Devilish straits: re-interpreting the source of Boundary Waters Treaty success
… a re-evaluation of the venerable Boundary Waters Treaty (BWT) between Canada and the United States. Why was the long-successful water agreement unable to solve this relatively minor dispute? More importantly, given irregularities between theoretical assertions and institutional history, what …
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Ngā Kaikawekōrero: Producing Māori Television Documentary in Aotearoa New Zealand
… discussion regarding the significance of TVNZ’s Treaty obligations alongside those of MTS to ensure adequate provisions are made for the inclusion of Māori documentary storytelling on mainstream television.
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The effect of corruption on the 'available resources' for the right to housing as espoused by the Constitution of South Africa
… government vulnerable to breaching international treaty obligations insofar as realisation of the minimum core in housing and protecting the maximum available resources for housing against malfeasance in government. Instead that government realises the right to housing for the impoverished …
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Childhood statelessness in Kenya: an appraisal of legislative compliance with international human rights law obligations
… complied with its international human rights law treaty obligations on the children’s right to a nationality to address childhood statelessness, and what challenges hinder its full realization of this right? Previous research does not fully address Kenya’s compliance with international human …
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The role of regional organisations in international copyright law
… and entered into independent bilateral treaty obligations instead. These countries provide also a basis for considering the differences in preferences between developed and developing countries in the context of international and regional copyright protection. This can bridge the current …
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A New Institutional Economic Analysis and Implications for Foreign Direct Investment in Saudi Arabia: The Framework and Effects of Contemporary International Law and Migrant Workers
… Arabia’s domestic law with its international treaty obligations.
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Much a coup about nothing? Was Zimbabwe's 2017 ‘military-assisted change of government' an ‘unconstitutional change of government' as defined by applicable international law? Did the relevant international bodies respond to it in accordance with their own rules?
… (‘AU'), Zimbabwe is legally bound by certain treaty obligations arising from these memberships. The AU in particular usually adopts a strong anti-unconstitutional change of government (‘UCOG') stance and has developed a legal framework for identifying and addressing UCOGs. Thus, although …
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Domestic deeming provisions and double tax treaties: lessons from Tradehold and Fowler
… to assess their impact on the resolution of tax treaty disputes. Results and Conclusions The findings illustrate the South African courts in Tradehold adopted an approach that sought to retain the domestic statutory fiction within the DTT provisions, whereas the UK courts in Fowler limited the …
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Cultivating Treaty Relationships: The Significance of the Cows and Ploughs Clauses for the Numbered Treaties
… interpretation and implementation of historic treaty promises is an ongoing opportunity for relationship-building in Canada that includes working to fulfill the spirit and intent of the originating formal agreements between the Crown and First Nations. This thesis analyzes the interpretation …
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An examination of the attitudes and policies of Andrew Jackson concerning the American Indian
… to come to the aid of the Indians, in spite of treaty obligations to them. Chapter IV also covers the reaction to the removal policy by the public and by the Indians.</p><p>Jackson's tendency to contradict himself is much in evidence in his Indian attitudes and policies. Chapter V attempts to …
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Housing Rights Implications of Hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto and Vancouver: Towards a Legal Framework that Effectively Protects the Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
… further examines and discusses the immediate obligations of the government in Canada under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and under FIFA’s human rights initiatives, to - through appropriate legislative measures - protect against the housing rights risks of …