Valdez Principles picking up steam
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The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) was founded in 1989 and brings together the country's major environmental organizations and companies dedicated to socially responsible investing. Their code for environmental conduct is called the Valdez Principles. The movement's main handicap is a dearth of environmental information, and CERES hopes to remedy this state of affairs. Its main achievement to date has been wide public acceptance of environmentally responsible conduct and a large group of trade associations, businesses and governments which have environmental codes.
Publication Name: Business and Society Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0045-3609
Year: 1992
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Toward "neutral principles" in the law: selections from the oral history of Herbert Wechsler
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Columbia Law School Professor Herbert Wechsler discusses his legal and scholarly contributions with Columbia's Oral History Research Project interviewers. Wechsler's significant career began in the early 1930s, after graduating from Columbia Law School and clerking for US Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone. Besides his academic efforts in areas such as criminal law, international law, torts, trusts, contracts, civil procedure and constitutional law, Wechsler was also an advocate in many controversial and precedent-setting civil rights, human rights and free speech cases.
Publication Name: Columbia Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0010-1958
Year: 1993
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Sustainable bioprospecting: using private contracts and international legal principles and policies to conserve raw medicinal materials
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Understanding sustainable bioprospecting will show the international and business communities the conduct and contracts necessary to assure a sustained supply of raw medicinal materials. Bioprospecting contracts provide economic incentives encouraging all parties to feel conservation would be in their best interest. A contract between INBio, a Costa Rican scientific research institute, and the large pharmaceutical firm Merck is an example of such a contract and seeks access to that country's raw medicinal materials.
Publication Name: Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0190-7034
Year: 1997
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