The Foundation for Law and International Affairs Review
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The purpose of this quarterly journal is to provide members of the legal profession and the public generally with peer-reviewed articles, essays, and book reviews by individual authors or co-authors and reports and surveys by FLIA research teams and FLIA Scholars at the intersection of law and international affairs. It seeks to create a new, transnational model for the production and dissemination of scholarship at the intersection of law and international affairs.
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Latest documents
- 2021 Annual Conference on Global Law and Strategy - Region and Order
- Shifting Boundaries and the Imagination of Region History
- Reasons for Regions
- Regional Agreements and International Law
- Empire and Regional Order
- Monroe Doctrine and History
- Round Table: Area, Space and Law
- Summary of the 2021 Annual Conference on Global Law and Strategy
- A Comparison between the PRC Arbitration Law (Revised) (Draft for Comments) and the Current PRC Arbitration Law
- An Assessment of Gaps of Legal Mechanisms of B&R Implementation in Africa: Ethiopia's Perspective
While there have been discussions focusing on B&R for African countries, little has said about the legal aspects governing B&R among African countries. Against this backdrop, this article examines the legal frameworks governing the B&R in Africa, taking Ethiopia as a case in point. It analyses the available legal mechanism between China and Africa to ensure the rights and obligations of parties involved in B&R and the limitation on the existing legal issues. This article argues that despite B&R being mutually beneficial, B&R goals necessitate a legal framework governing B&R. There are hardly any specific laws that govern B&R among African countries; the existing multilateral frameworks are nonbinding and are not B&R-specific; some of the African countries including Ethiopia are not yet a member of relevant multilateral forums. These all impede the application of WTO and ICSID in the context of B&R. Therefore, in the short run, there is a need to negotiate or update the existing treaties between African countries and China. In the long term, China and Africa must work towards a legal framework applicable to all the parties eventually. Keywords: Legal Cooperation; B&R; China; Ethiopia; African
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- An Assessment of Gaps of Legal Mechanisms of B&R Implementation in Africa: Ethiopia's Perspective
While there have been discussions focusing on B&R for African countries, little has said about the legal aspects governing B&R among African countries. Against this backdrop, this article examines the legal frameworks governing the B&R in Africa, taking Ethiopia as a case in point. It analyses the...
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- The International Convergence of Criminal Procedural Law in China: A Criminal Discourse Analysis of Defendant's Rights
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