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The Cancún Climate Conference

I. Introduction

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held from November 29 to December 11, 2010, in Cancún, Mexico, relaunched the United Nation's multilateral facilitation role. Delegates agreed to aspects of a global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major emerging economies will share the task of making deeper greenhouse-gas emission cuts.

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Cesare Romano and Elizabeth Burleson
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The 2010 Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol: A New Treaty Assigning Transboundary Liability and Redress for Biodiversity Damage Caused by Genetically Modified Organisms

Introduction

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Anastasia Telesetsky
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Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay: The International Court of Justice Recognizes Environmental Impact Assessment as a Duty under International Law

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Cymie R. Payne
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The Responsibility to Protect Haiti

Introduction

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7
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Linda A. Malone
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The WTO Seal Products Dispute: A Preview of the Key Legal Issues

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Simon Lester
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law

A new swine influenza virus is causing outbreaks in humans in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and the virus has possibly spread to other countries. This outbreak has alarmed public health officials because of its epidemiological characteristics, which indicate that the virus may be able to cause a pandemic.

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David P. Fidler
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The Bali Climate Change Conference

The Bali Roadmap marks a milestone in the process of international consensus building, setting forth a multilateral legal framework to address climate change. Delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali (Dec. 3-15 2007) launched a two-year process with a comprehensive agenda and 2009 deadline to complete negotiations for a post-2012 agreement.

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12
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4
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Elizabeth Burleson
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U.S. Supreme Court, Greenhouse Gas Regulation and Foreign Policy Considerations

In time for Earth Day, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the well-publicized case, Massachusetts v.

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11
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13
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Cymie R. Payne
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