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Critically discuss, with reference to the international conventions and domestic laws addressed in class or in the assigned readings, how the United Nations Convention Against Corruption has improved on previous approaches to the regulation of international corruption, and how might it nonetheless still itself be improved.

The criticisms of the ILO’s adoption of the “Core Labour Standards” made by Philip Alston. What are Alston's criticisms, and how would you defend the ILO against them?

The advantages and disadvantages of international arbitration compared with litigation in international dispute resolution?

How the United Nations Convention Against Corruption has improved on previous approaches to the regulation of international corruption?

No government can be held responsible for an act of its agents committed in violation of its authority, unless it is itself guilty of bad faith or of negligence in not suppressing the action. Critically discuss.