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A comment on Will Kymlicka's "Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe" (2001) critiques his fundamental point that ethnocultural neutrality has been superceded by ethnocultural justice with all meaningful ethnocultural groups having a stake in the deployment of state power in social-communicative system management. Focus is on Kymlicka's five-model framework of ethnopolitical conflict. Using the empirical examples of Estonia & Latvia, it is argued that, while ethnopolitical justice is important, attention must also be paid to the discursive struggles of groups pursuing a definition of ethnopolitical situations. J. Zendejas

Offshore hydrocarbon resources have been developed for many decades, and with technology improvements, many fields which were once impossible to develop, are now economically and technologically feasible. This has led to a growing difficulty in determining the legislative and regulatory framework for resources that straddle the recognized borders between two states. In this paper, we examine a successful framework agreement governing the transboundary resources between the United Kingdom ("U.K.") and Norway in the North Sea, and the agreement between the United States and Mexico governing the Gulf of Mexico. Following the 2013 Energy Reform, the Mexican energy sector has been revitalized, leading to greater exploration, development, and production than ever before. This means that in the near future transboundary resources may be licensed for production, bringing the issues highlighted in this paper to the attention of multiple government and international entities. This paper seeks to recommend improvements to the transboundary framework in the Gulf of Mexico based on the successful framework agreement utilized in the North Sea. This paper begins by introducing international law for offshore resources in Part II. Part III discusses the offshore regulatory regimes in the U.K. and Norway, analyzing how the two states have successfully used bilateral agreements to facilitate cooperation regarding effective exploitation and apportionment of costs from cross-boundary offshore oil and gas projects in the North Sea. Part IV discusses the offshore regulatory regimes in the United States and Mexico and analyzes the current transboundary agreement in place for the Gulf of Mexico. Part V compares the transboundary agreement governing the North Sea and the same governing the Gulf of Mexico. We highlight the major differences in the agreements and suggest changes to the Gulf of Mexico agreement based on the successful North Sea agreement. Finally, this paper concludes and provides key policy recommendations to improve the rules and regulations surrounding the exploitation of transboundary hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico.

In recent years, the number and content of substantive norms that international copyright treaties impose on member states have increased considerably. It is therefore appropriate to consider the extent to which those instruments have in effect created an international (or at least multinational) copyright code, as well as to inquire what role national copyright laws do and should have in an era not only of international copyright norms, but of international dissemination of copyrighted works. This Article first considers the displacement of national norms through the evolution of a de facto international copyright code, elaborated in multilateral instruments such as the Berne Convention, the TRIPs Accord, and the pending WIPO Copyright Treaty, as well as by harmonization measures within the European Union. The second part of this Article addresses the place that remains for national copyright norms, first through gaps left in the WIPO, WTO and EU multilateral instruments, and second, through choice of law. In the latter instance, a national norm will govern a multinational copyright contract or dispute, but other national copyright norms may be eluded. Finally, this Article considers what role should remain for national copyright laws. National copyright laws are a component of local cultural and information policies. As such, they express each sovereign nation's twin aspirations for its citizens exposure to works of authorship, and participation in their country's cultural patrimony. Perhaps that simply means that each country's local policies should prevail within its borders, whatever the national origin of the work locally received. On the other hand, the pervasive international dissemination of works of authorship also calls into question the extent to which authors and their works should be subject to different national standards. The Article concludes that national laws allocating copyright ownership form the strongest candidates for preservation; national exceptions to copyright present a more difficult, but potentially persuasive, case for persistence of national norms as well.

Global legal pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the 21st century. Wherever one looks, there is conflict among multiple legal regimes - some of which are state-based; some are built and maintained by nonstate actors; some fall within the purview of local authorities and jurisdictional entities; and some involve international courts, tribunals, and arbitral bodies, as well as regulatory organisations. Global legal pluralism has provided, first and foremost, a set of useful analytical tools for describing this conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.

The Cardozo Law Review was pleased to host the Annual Bauer Lecture with honorable guest speaker: New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The Bauer Lecture was a moderated discussion by the Law Review's Editor-in-Chief, Jhaton P. White, about Attorney General James' thoughts on the value of minority representation in the law and the future of New York law in today's political environment. Letitia "Tish" James is the 67th Attorney General for the State of New York. With decades of work, she is an experienced attorney and public servant with a long record of accomplishments. She is the first woman of color to hold statewide office in New York and the first woman to be elected Attorney General. ; https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/law-review-recordings/1004/thumbnail.jpg

Die Studie berichtet über das Ausmaß und die Formen rechtsextremistischer Verhaltensweisen bzw. Straftaten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Ausführungen basieren auf empirischem Datenmaterial für den Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2002. In einem ersten Schritt werden die Formen der Registrierung von Rechtsextremismus, Ausländerfeindlichkeit und antisemitischen Straftaten sowie die dahinter stehenden Institutionen vorgestellt. Dazu gehören das Bundeskriminalamt mit der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik bzw. der Kriminalpolizeiliche Meldedienst in politisch motivierter Kriminalität und der Kriminalpolizeiliche Meldedienst in Staatsschutzsachen mit ihren jeweiligen Registrierungen. Der zweite Schritt liefert einen quantitativen Überblick über Rechtsextremismus, Fremdenfeindlichkeit sowie antisemitischer Straftaten und Gewaltverbrechen. Der dritte Schritt befasst sich einerseits mit mutmaßlichen Straftätern und ihren Profilen und legt andererseits die Entwicklung der Strafverfahren bzw. Verurteilungen dar. Der vierte Schritt präsentiert Angaben zu den Opfern rechtsextremer Gewalt in Form statistischen Datenmaterials sowie Hilfsmaßnahmen für die Opfer. Der fünfte Schritt nennt rechtsextreme und fremdenfeindliche Parteien und Gruppen in Deutschland. Der Text schließt mit einer Reihe von Einrichtungen bzw. Institutionen, die sich um eine Prävention und Eindämmung der rechtsextremen Gewalt in Deutschland bemühen (Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz, CIVITAS, XENOS - Leben und Arbeiten in Vielfalt u.a.m.). (ICG2)