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M. C. Mirow

2016

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International Law And Religion In Latin America: The Beagle Channel Dispute, M C. Mirow Feb 2016

International Law And Religion In Latin America: The Beagle Channel Dispute, M C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

In 1978, an Argentine diplomat proposed a method of defusing a territorial dispute that very nearly sparked off a war between Argentina and Chile, It,was an offer calculated to be rejected by Chile, and yet Chile’s immediate response was “Agreed” - a response so unthinkable to Argentina that within hours its military Junta revoked the power of the Foreign Minister and the President to sign the agreement it had just proposed. In December 1978, the countries were quickly moving towards a war that, if waged, would most likely have engulfed much of Latin America. The Vatican, however, intervened and brought …

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Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M. C. Mirow Dec 2015

Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M. C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

The two most recent paradigmatic moments in the development of property law were the construction of "social property" about a hundred years ago and of "international property" quite recently. This study analyses two important texts as illustrations of these changes: Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and John Sprankling's book The International Law of Property (2014). Each text signals a paradigm shift in our understanding of property.

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