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International Law and Its Discontents: Critical Reflections on the War on Drugs or the Role of Law in Creating Complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Alvaro Santos
Alvaro Santos*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University Law Center
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International Law and its Discontents: The Normative Implications, and Strategic Opportunities, of Complexity
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 172 - 176
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (standard ed. 1989).

2 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (2002).

3 Homes, Oliver Wendell, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457 (1897)Google Scholar, republished 110 Harv. L. Rev. 991 (1997).

4 Id. at 251.

5 Santos, Alvaro, The World Bank’s Uses of the “Rule of Law” Promise in Economic Development, in The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal 253–300 (Santos, Alvaro & Trubek, David M. eds., 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Santos, Alvaro, Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform, and Economic Development, 50 Va. J. Int’l L. 43-106 (2009)Google Scholar.

7 Santos, Alvaro, Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico, 52 Va. J. Int’l L. 551–632 (2012)Google Scholar.

8 The Menda Initiative, U.S. Dep’t of State, at http://www.state.gOv/j/inl/merida/index.htm.

9 Id. An independent government evaluation reports slow disbursement of funds and lack of clear standards to evaluate success. See Government Accountability Office, Report to Congressional Requesters, Merida Initiative: The United States Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support But Needs Better Performance Measures (July 2010).

10 Cave, Damien, Mexico Updates Death Toll in Drug War to 47, 515, But Critics Dispute the Data, N.Y. Times, Jan. 11, 2012 Google Scholar, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/americas/mexico-updates-drug-war-death-toll-but-critics-dispute-data.html?_r=1.

11 Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, Gavina, César & Zedillo, Ernesto, The War on Drugs it a Failure, Wall St. J., Feb. 23, 2009 Google Scholar, available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123535114271444981.html; see Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift, Statement by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, http://www.dro-gasedemocracia.org/Arquivos/declaracao_ingles_site.pdf.