Assessing International Religious Freedom
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom's (USCIRF) Katrina Lantos Swett and Elizabeth K. Cassidy discuss USCIRF's...
Speaker: Jose E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law
Presider: Terra Lawson-Remer, Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy, Council on Foreign Relations
May 10, 2013
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin professor of international law at New York University School of Law, discusses the growth and distributional effects and the human rights implications of global economic governance through bilateral investment treaties, with a focus on the global south.
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