About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

38 Va. J. Int'l L. 331 (1997-1998)
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Cultural Land and Transnational Corporation--Emergent International Rights and Wrongs

handle is hein.journals/vajint38 and id is 343 raw text is: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Cultural Land And Transnational Corporations-Emergent International Rights And Wrongs MARTIN A. GEER* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ................................................................................ 333 A. Potential Defendants: Transnational Corporations ...... 336 B. Potential Plaintiffs: Imperiled Indigenous Peoples ........ 337 C. O verview .............................................................................. 338 II. The International Legal Consequences of Oil Explora- tion In Amazonia ....................................................................... 340 A . Introduction ........................................................................ 340 B. Working Definitions Under International Law .............. 342 1. A m azonia ..................................................................... 344 2. Indigenous Peoples ..................................................... 346 3. Cultural Land .............................................................. 349 4. Transnational Corporations ....................................... 352 * Associate Professor of Law, Director of Clinical Education, University of Baltimore School of Law. B.A., magna cum laude, University of Michigan; J.D., Wayne State Uni- versity School of Law, LLM., Columbia University School of Law. My heartfelt thanks for the research support of Gabriel Terrasa and Lucy Moran. My gratitude to the University of Baltimore School of Law for its financial support of this project and its Center for International and Comparative Law, which provided a forum for the presentation of an early draft of this article. I also thank Professors Clark Cun- ningham, Eric Easton, Stephen Ellmann, Alejandro Garro, Steven Grossman, Michael Higginbotham, Louis Henkin, Bertram Ramcharan, Paul Reingold, Robert Rubinson, and Jane Schukoske for their encouragement and suggestions at various stages of this project. In addition, I thank Regina M. Gordon, Andrea Holz, and law librarian Harvy Morrell for their assistance.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most