Essays about: "extraterritorial jurisdiction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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1. GOVERNANCE BEYOND BORDERS The Extraterritorial Reach of OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : As increasingly powerful actors in a globalised world, multinational corporations are often able to evade responsibility for human rights violations and other misconduct occurring in their own operations or supply chains. Since courts face limitations when attempting to exert jurisdiction outside of their state territories, state-based non-judicial mechanisms such as the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) have been established to fill this gap by mediating between corporations and victims of corporate human rights abuses with the aim of providing remedy to the latter. READ MORE
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2. Navigating Legal Waters - A Study of Forcible Measures in Rescue Operations of Migrants and Refugees on the High Seas
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Den juridiska frågan om i vilken utsträckning stater får tvångsrädda människor på internationellt vatten, har fått ny betydelse i och med migrationsflödet över centrala Medelhavet. Flera incidenter har visat att det finns såväl strategiska som rent överlevnadsbaserade grunder till att migranter och flyktingar motsätter sig räddning av vissa statsfartyg på Medelhavet. READ MORE
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3. LET’S SELL DRUGS : How the home-State of an investment can upset investment protections in the cannabis industry
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Recently many States have legalised the production and retail of recreational cannabis, which is already a big business worldwide, and therefore, thoroughly attractive to international investors who would – reasonably – seek to develop their business in cannabis-friendly jurisdictions but, more so than many investments, this one carries with it a certain risk: Many influential and capital-exporting states are reticent to legalise cannabis for themselves and many times even criminalise any and all cannabis-related activities. This work uses this dilema to explore the influence of the home-State of the investment on the legality of an investment, and question the uniletarality of the obligations derived from "Free Movement of Liquid Assets" or "repatriation" clauses, arguing that there is a multilateral obligation to protect the movement of investments' returns and that home-States to the investor must fulfill it by not impeding or upseting the repatriation of liquid assets. READ MORE
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4. The Interception of Refugees and Migrants on the High Seas- The Scope of Applicability of the Principle of Non-Refoulement and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : According to the European Convention on Human Rights, jurisdiction is a prerequisite for holding a contracting state responsible when an allegation of infringement of the ECHR arises, such as the principle of non-refoulement. States implement extraterritorial migration management measures trying to avoid triggering the principle of non-refoulement arguing that it cannot be applied extraterritorially. READ MORE
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5. Adjudicating Climate Change: The Role of Human Rights Litigation in Climate Change Mitigation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Over the last few decades, states have made a series of attempts to mitigate climate change through international agreements. Greenhouse gas emissions have kept rising, however, and are currently at record levels. This indicates that the international climate change regime has so far proven ineffective. READ MORE
