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Courts without borders : law, politics, and U.S. extraterritoriality /
This book is about the US politics and law of judicial extraterritoriality and how it influences international rule making and enforcement.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Courts without borders; The argument in brief; Judicial extraterritoriality and international relations theory; The power to compel compliance with domestic law; Private litigants as strategic agents; Judicial extraterritoriality as a source of international friction; Scope of the inquiry; The origins of judicial extraterritoriality; Extraterritoriality as a legal fiction; U.S. hegemony and U.S. judicial extraterritoriality.
- U.S. extraterritoriality under fire from within the U.S. legal systemOverview of the book; 2 A theory of judicial extraterritoriality; The theoretical argument; Constructing jurisdictional thresholds; Behavioral assumptions; Competing accounts of U.S. court behavior; Protecting U.S. economic interests; Regime affinity; Testing the arguments; Explanatory variables; Regression results and discussion; Judicial line-drawing and litigant convenience; Conclusion; 3 Domestic courts and transnational governance; U.S. extraterritoriality, foreign governments, and international rules.
- When do states adjust?When do states bargain?; U.S. domestic courts as "sites of action": an agency-based framework; U.S. Law and its extraterritorial reach; Agents and incentives to litigate; U.S. courts and private rights of action; Why litigate?; Enforcement capacity; Sources of legal ambiguity and change; Conclusion; 4 Extraterritoriality in the absence of agreement: International antitrust; Antitrust, international trade, and extraterritoriality; Rules and ambiguity; Agents and triggers; Enforcement capacity; Applying the framework; The origins of modern antitrust.
- War, occupation, and the Western-liberal international orderFrom U.S. dominance to competitive rivalry; United States; Europe; Post-Cold War era; National and supranational developments; International processes; Discussion; Conclusion; 5 Extraterritoriality's limits and U.S. bargaining over intellectual property protection; Territorial rights in a globalizing world; What is intellectual property?; Institutionalizing territoriality; Territoriality, extraterritoriality, and intellectual property; From international pirates to producers to pariahs; Early patent laws.
- Emergence of international copyright lawTrailing with trademarks; Falling behind by standing still; Efforts at (partial) reengagement; Experimenting with extraterritoriality; Legal ambiguity; Agents of extraterritoriality; Enforcement capacity; The real turn to bargaining; Discussion; Conclusion; 6 U.S. extraterritoriality and human rights: Shaping a regime from within; Enforcing human rights in U.S. courts; Legal ambiguity, political agency, and enforcement; Ambiguities of jurisdiction and substance; Demarcating boundaries of ATS jurisdiction; Incorporating new offenses.