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International Bankruptcy: In Defense Of Universalism, Andrew T. Guzman

Michigan Law Review

The globalization of business activity is rightfully celebrated as one of the triumphs of the second half of the twentieth century. The benefits stemming from the globalization of commerce are substantial, but international transactions also bring with them important challenges for the world's legal systems. Traditionally, national governments could focus on their domestic economies without undue attention to international issues. Today, however, a country's policymakers must respond to the growth in international business activity with appropriate legal changes. Failure to do so will cause their legal regimes to fall further and further out of step with the needs of the …

The Case For Cooperative Territoriality In International Bankruptcy, Lynn M. Lopucki

Michigan Law Review

Universalism - the idea that a multinational debtor's "home country" should have worldwide jurisdiction over its bankruptcy - has long had tremendous appeal to bankruptcy professionals. Yet, the international community repeatedly has refused to adopt conventions that would make universalism a reality. In an article published last year, I proposed an explanation. Universalism can work only in a world with essentially uniform laws governing bankruptcy �nd priority among creditors - a world that does not yet exist. Because it is impossible to fix the location of a multinational company in a global economy, the introduction of universalism in current world …

Resolving Transnational Insolvencies Through Private Ordering, Robert K. Rasmussen

Michigan Law Review

There is no international bankruptcy law. No question, there are international insolvencies. Transnational firms, just like domestic ones, often cannot generate sufficient revenue to satisfy their debt obligations. Their financial distress creates a situation where assets and claimants are scattered across more than one country. But there is no international law that provides a set of rules for resolving the financial distress of these firms. The absence of any significant free-standing international bankruptcy treaty means that a domestic court confronted with the domestic part of a transnational enterprise has to decide which nation's domestic bankruptcy law will apply to which …

A Global Solution To Multinational Default, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Michigan Law Review

A new world is slouching toward New York and London, Beijing and Bangkok, to be born. If our planet and our values survive the secondary effects of that emergence, we may look forward to a humanity more prosperous and more integrated than at any time in human history. The force that drives us to that future is free-market capitalism constrained in the vessel of democratic institutions. One important element in its progress is the fashioning of an international system for managing the financial crises that are one of the free market's inevitable consequences. In this symposium, we debate which is …

Islam At The Dawn Of The New Christian Millennium, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

A Jewish Perspective On Religious Pluralism, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

What's News At Rhode Island College, Rhode Island College

What's News?

No abstract provided.

Mlgpa News (May 2000), David Garrity

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

The "Tao Te Ching:" A Primer For Developing A Leadership Philosophy, Merilee J. Light

Theses and Graduate Projects

A leader's behavior and actions flow from their values and beliefs. The focus of this thesis is to create a forum where people can explore their beliefs around how to positively influence others when in a position of leadership.

The forum is a three-session study group using a 2,500 year-old book of Chinese philosophy called the "Tao Te Ching." The 5,100-word book of 81 aphorisms provides pearls of wisdom on leadership--using nature as the model. Participants documented their leadership philosophy in session 1 and after reading the "Tao Te Ching" in session 3. Session 1 is an introduction to the …

Neoliberalism, Colonialism, And International Governance: Decentering The International Law Of Government Legitimacy, James Thuo Gathii

Michigan Law Review

Brad R. Roth's Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law is a neoconservative realist response to liberal internationalists (or universalists). As a critique, the book unsurprisingly legitimizes the subject of its attack: liberal internationalism. That is so since in their opposition to each other, liberal internationalists and neoconservative realists fall within the same discursive formation - a Euro-American hegemony of thinking, writing, critiquing, engaging, producing, and practicing international law. This Review is an antihegemonic critique. It seeks to decenter this Euro-American opposition between liberal internationalism and neoconservative realism that has characterized the study of international law, especially in the post-Cold War period. …

Rejoinder: Twailing International Law, James Thuo Gathii

Michigan Law Review

Brad Roth's response to my Review of his book seeks to privilege his approach to international law as the most defensible. His response does not engage one of the central claims of my Review - that present within international legal scholarship and praxis is a simultaneous and dialectical coexistence of the dominant conservative/liberal approach with alternative or Third World approaches to thinking and writing international law. Roth calls these alternative approaches critical and does not consider them insightful for purposes of dealing with issues such as anticolonialism. Roth's characterization of my Review as falling within critical approaches to international law …

A Survey Of The Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, Kady Schneiter

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Perhaps the most famous problem in all of mathematics is the theorem that states that the equation aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ has no non-trivial solutions for integers a, b, and c, and n ≥ 2. This theorem was proposed by a seventeenth century French mathematician named Pierre de Fermat. Though the theorem is easy to understand, the proof has been elusive. Over the past 350 years many mathematicians have attempted to prove Fermat's theorem. They have used a variety of methods and many have been successful in proving the theorem in specific cases. …

The Effects Of Parents Educational Attainment On The Rentension Of African American Students At Predominately White Institutions, Tiffany Gayle Chenault

Tiffany Chenault

A Communities Of Discourse Approach To Early Lds Thought, Grant Underwood

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Economic Meanings Of Gender

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Empathy And The Questioning Spirit In Liberal Education: Reports From The Field, Sara Varhus

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Current justifications of liberal education usually take one of two tacks: itemizing the applicable skills that students derive from a liberal education, or asserting that it is liberal education that society must look to for the capacity for community or citizenship. The former is an argument probably worth making because it appeals to the preoccupations of students, parents, and employers, but it is the second that reveals the relevance, for our time, of liberal education. Bruce Kimball argues that this latter focus on the virtues instilled by education de-emphasizes rational inquiry and the individual pursuit of truth in what he …

Mlgpa News (April 2000), David Garrity

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.

Citizenship Denationalized (The State Of Citizenship Symposium), Linda Bosniak

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.

Citizenship, Law, And The American Nation, Kenneth L. Karst

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.

Msop Newsletter (Spring 2000), Maine Speakout Project

MSOP newsletter (1998-2001)

No abstract provided.

The New Establishmentarianism, Michael W. Mcconnell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article responds to the notion that government should identify and enforce a set of common beliefs and values, which McConnell calls "establishmentarianism." McConnell argues that establishmentarianism is inferior to the view that the values of society must emerge from the free institutions of civil society (liberalism). In doing so, McConnell explores the irony that modern insistence on diversity can go beyond mere tolerance of dissenting viewpoints and undermine the diversity and pluralism of society as a whole. Pluralism consists of a variety of different groups; an insistence on pluralism within groups has a homogenizing effect. Specifically, the Article addresses …

The Moral Exclusivity Of The New Civil Society, Dorothy E. Roberts

Chicago-Kent Law Review

While commending civil society revivalists' commitment to freedom and equality, this Article argues that the revivalists' moral vision is marred by exclusivity. Roberts locates this moral exclusivity in a flawed account of the relationship between social inequality and moral decline. By discounting the importance of social justice for creating civic faith, involvement, and solidarity, the revivalists' proposals tend to benefit society's most privileged families.

John Hare, The Moral Gap, Eileen Sweeney

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

The Murray State News, March 31, 2000, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, March 30, 2000, Daily Egyptian Staff

March 2000

No abstract provided.

The Bg News March 30, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper March 30, 2000. Volume 85 - Issue 51

Eastern Progress - 30 Mar 2000, Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Progress 1999-2000

No abstract provided.

Eastern Progress - 16 Mar 2000, Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Progress 1999-2000

No abstract provided.

Kinnelly, Charlene (Pomeroy) And Pomeroy, Arlene Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Arlene Pomeroy was born in 1918. Both of her parents were Republicans. Her mother, the daughter of a dairy farmer, was born in the Stevens Mills area of Auburn. Her father was born in the Norway area and worked in the shoe factories. She worked in shoe factory offices. She married Charles Pomeroy (see biographical note below) in 1936 and they were married for 58 years until his death. They had four children, two girls, including Charlene, and two boys. They lived in Auburn until 1948. She was most active in the Democratic party during the late 1930s and early …

The Utah Statesman, March 1, 2000, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.