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ABA Section of International Law Panel Discussion: Can Carbon Caps/Trade/Tax Save the World from Global Warming?
This week, the Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill will hold four days of hearings to discuss a 648-page draft bill, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009," sponsored by two senior House Democrats, Representatives Waxman and Markey. Last week, at the 2009 ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting, Joseph Dellapenna moderated a discussion on Obama's market-based cap-and-trade proposal for carbon emissions with three panelists: Michael Gerrard, Jeffrey Gracer, and Kenneth S. Rivlin. The session was entitled, "Can Carbon Trade Save the World (or Does the World Need to Be Saved from Carbon Trading)?" These experts examined the concerns about market manipulation, the adequacy of possible regulation, the pros and cons of auctions, the lessons learned from other countries with traditional cap-and-trade systems, and possible policy alternatives. Here are some notes that I took during the session.
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.
