Preliminary Analysis of Article XXI: Why the National Security Exception is an Implausible Justification for US Steel and Aluminium Tariffs on China
AbstractUS protectionist measures in modern history reached a new apex in 2018 when tariffs against steel and aluminium imports were announced, which particularly affected China, the state posing a sharp political and economic contrast to US. Not only did this trigger retaliatory measures but it ...
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Commentary on Lungowe and others v Vedanta Resources plc and Kokola Copper Mines plc [2019] UKSC 201
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The Grossly Undefined Threshold for Establishing Medical Manslaughter
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R v. Evans: An Uneasy Precedent?
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The delicate balance between Carl Schmitt’s constituent power and liberal constitutionalism: a misunderstood and over-complicated dichotomy?
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Afghanistan: Towards wider interests of justice?
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Darnley v Croydon Health Service NHS Trust: delineating duty and breach
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