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From The State Of Emergency To The Rule Of Law: The Evolution Of Repressive Legality In The Nineteenth Century British Empire, Christopher M. Roberts Jun 2019

From The State Of Emergency To The Rule Of Law: The Evolution Of Repressive Legality In The Nineteenth Century British Empire, Christopher M. Roberts

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Why are contemporary laws and techniques that state authorities use to crack down on political dissent so similar across countries? This Article argues that at least part of the answer may be found by turning to colonial history. The Article has two Parts. In the first Part, the Article explores the manner in which, over the course of the nineteenth century, the British deployed various different legal and institutional approaches in response to an Irish polity that consistently refused to submit to British authority. In the second Part, the Article examines the manner in which the approaches developed in Ireland …


A Method Inside The Madness: Understanding The European Union State Aid And Taxation Rulings, Christopher Bobby Jul 2017

A Method Inside The Madness: Understanding The European Union State Aid And Taxation Rulings, Christopher Bobby

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International headlines have been consumed with the proliferation of international tax havens and “sweetheart deals” given to multinational companies with the hopes that they would invest in a given country. In response to such concerns, the E.U. Commission has issued a spate of decisions in which it concludes that certain taxation rulings given by State Members to international corporations constitute illegal state aid. These decisions have both befuddled and outraged various parties in the international community, including states and multinational corporations, who claim that the Commission is acting both unilaterally and without precedent. This Comment surveys the applicable case law …