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Comparative and Foreign Law

University at Buffalo School of Law

2019

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Porous Bureaucracy: Legitimating The Administrative State In Taiwan, Anya Bernstein Sep 2019

Porous Bureaucracy: Legitimating The Administrative State In Taiwan, Anya Bernstein

Journal Articles

Scholars and politicians have sometimes presented bureaucracy as inherently conflicting with democracy. Notably, bureaucrats themselves are rarely consulted about that relationship. In contrast, I draw on interviews and participant observation to illuminate how government administrators understand their own place in democratic government in Taiwan, one of the few successful third-wave democracies. The administrators I work with root their own legitimacy not in separated powers or autonomous expertise, but in their ongoing collaboration with legislators and publics. They define their own accountability not just as executive legislative mandates but as producing them in the first place, and figure bureaucracy as a …


Reconceptualizing Entrenched Notions Of Common Law Property Regimes: Maori Self-Determination And Environmental Protection Through Legal Personality For Natural Objects, Bridget Williams Aug 2019

Reconceptualizing Entrenched Notions Of Common Law Property Regimes: Maori Self-Determination And Environmental Protection Through Legal Personality For Natural Objects, Bridget Williams

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Is China A “Rule-By-Law” Regime?, Kwai Hang Ng May 2019

Is China A “Rule-By-Law” Regime?, Kwai Hang Ng

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Transformative Constitutions And The Role Of Integrity Institutions In Tempering Power: The Case Of Resistance To State Capture In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Heinz Klug May 2019

Transformative Constitutions And The Role Of Integrity Institutions In Tempering Power: The Case Of Resistance To State Capture In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Heinz Klug

Buffalo Law Review

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When Alternative Dispute Resolution Works: Lessons Learned From The Bashingantahe, Alexander J. Buszka Jan 2019

When Alternative Dispute Resolution Works: Lessons Learned From The Bashingantahe, Alexander J. Buszka

Buffalo Law Review

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