“Where’s the Accountability?”
Since the implementation of the Human Trafficking Protocol in 2003 the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that the numbers of States with dedicated national anti-trafficking legislation has doubled (Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, UNODC, 2009, p. 8); 143 States are now parties to the Protocol. Alongside governmental policy development in this field civil society has also entered the arena, including celebrities, major media operations, NGOs and often competing inter-governmental...
Read MoreDisciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, and the Case of Narcotics by Chantal Thomas
This Article is the first in a series of studies of the globalization of illicit markets. My theses are as follows: First, the increase in international trade in illicit products and services parallels the growth in international trade more generally that accompanies the phenomenon of globalization. Second, at the same time that most international trade law has moved toward a posture of liberalization, there has been a movement to strengthen the prohibition and punishment of trade in illicit...
Read MoreGlobalization and the Reproduction of Hierarchy by Chantal Thomas
Over the past decade, the federal government has increasingly taken steps to lift barriers to trade and financial flows into and out of the United States. This liberalization of U.S. economic barriers has been mirrored by similar efforts of governments around the world. These steps, together with gains in technology, have ushered in an era of “globalization.”‘ The global liberalization of economic flows, according to classical economic theory, should maximize the efficient...
Read MoreLaw and Neoclassical Economic Development: Toward an Institutionalist Critique of Institutionalism by Chantal Thomas
In his 1993 Nobel Laureate lecture, the leading theorist of institutional economics, Douglass North, emphasized the relevance of his life’s work for economic development policy… Part One and Part Two
Read MoreEngendering Development/Marketing Equality by Kerry Rittich
In a recent policy research report, Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, the World Bank lays out a new “market-centered” approach to gender equality. Engendering Development is important for at least two reasons. First, it represents the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt by the Bank to date to explore and resolve the relationship between two goals that have often been in tension, gender equality and the pursuit of economic growth....
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