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Why Do Europeans Ban Hate Speech? A Debate Between Karl Loewenstein And Robert Post, Robert A. Khan Jan 2013

Why Do Europeans Ban Hate Speech? A Debate Between Karl Loewenstein And Robert Post, Robert A. Khan

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Re-Membering Law In The Internationalizing World, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2005

Re-Membering Law In The Internationalizing World, Vivian Grosswald Curran

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This article examines some of the challenges to understanding new, non-national legal configurations as contexts of origin color understandings and evaluations of legal standards allegedly shared across legal communities. It examines a case on assisted suicide, Pretty v. U.K., decided by the European Court of Human Rights. The case illustrates mechanisms of legal integration in the European court, followed by a process of dis-integration that occurred when the decision was reported to the French legal community. The French rendition reflected a legal community's inability to process common law information through civil law cognitive grids. The article addresses both the capacity …


International Law Issues In Death Penalty Defense, Richard J. Wilson Jan 2003

International Law Issues In Death Penalty Defense, Richard J. Wilson

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Corporate Defense Law For Dispersed Ownership, Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos Jan 2001

Corporate Defense Law For Dispersed Ownership, Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

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The Delaware law regarding defensive tactics has a consistent and unnoticed undercurrent: it favors defenses against attacks that would concentrate corporate ownership. Similar trends seem to be developing in European merger and acquisition law, but they have a different flavor. Europe tries to foster dispersed ownership by discouraging defenses because it starts from an environment of concentrated ownership. Professor Georgakopoulos argues that pursuit of dispersed ownership is justified from an economic perspective and that defenses are intimately related with dispersed ownership. The "semi-entrenched" control that Delaware provides and that firms consistently choose in IPO's and prefer compared to golden parachutes …


How Much Freedom For Racist Speech?: Transnational Aspects Of A Conflict Of Human Rights, Friedrich Kübler Jan 1998

How Much Freedom For Racist Speech?: Transnational Aspects Of A Conflict Of Human Rights, Friedrich Kübler

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Labor Policy In Late Twentieth Century Capitalism: New Paradoxes For The Democratic State, Daniel J. Gifford Jan 1997

Labor Policy In Late Twentieth Century Capitalism: New Paradoxes For The Democratic State, Daniel J. Gifford

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Who May Leave: A Review Of Soviet Practice Restricting Emigration On Grounds Of Knowledge Of "State Secrets" In Comparison With Standards Of International Law And The Policies Of Other States, Jeffrey Barist, Owen C. Pell, Eugenia Oshman, Matthew E. Hamel Jan 1987

Who May Leave: A Review Of Soviet Practice Restricting Emigration On Grounds Of Knowledge Of "State Secrets" In Comparison With Standards Of International Law And The Policies Of Other States, Jeffrey Barist, Owen C. Pell, Eugenia Oshman, Matthew E. Hamel

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