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The Real Challenge To The Polish Revolution: Cleaning The Polish Environment Through Privatization And Preventive Market-Based Incentives, G. Nelson Smith Iii Nov 2012

The Real Challenge To The Polish Revolution: Cleaning The Polish Environment Through Privatization And Preventive Market-Based Incentives, G. Nelson Smith Iii

Pepperdine Law Review

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What Was Distinctive About Katyn: The Massacres In Context, Mark Kramer Jan 2012

What Was Distinctive About Katyn: The Massacres In Context, Mark Kramer

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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From Renaissance Poland To Poland's Renaissance, Daniel H. Cole May 1999

From Renaissance Poland To Poland's Renaissance, Daniel H. Cole

Michigan Law Review

Poland is located in Eastern Europe - the "other Europe" - which shares a continent, but seemingly little else, with Western Europe. Most histories of Europe, legal histories included, are actually histories of Western Europe only. The "euro-centrism" some scholars complain about is, more accurately, a "western eurocentrism." The eastern half of the continent is ignored like the embarrassing black sheep of the European family. Economic historians have described Eastern Europe as a "backward" place, where feudal and mercantilist economies persisted as Western European economies modernized and industrialized. In geopolitical terms, Eastern Europe has been characterized as a region of …


Some Lessons For Cuba From The Legal Changes In Eastern Europe, Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Stephan M. Bleisteiner Oct 1995

Some Lessons For Cuba From The Legal Changes In Eastern Europe, Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Stephan M. Bleisteiner

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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Preface: Symposium On Trade And Foreign Investment In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union, David F. Matlin, James A. Yokely May 1991

Preface: Symposium On Trade And Foreign Investment In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union, David F. Matlin, James A. Yokely

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law held a Symposium on Trade and Foreign Investment in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on March 14 and 15, 1991. The Symposium consisted of a morning and an afternoon seminar held on March 15 at the Vanderbilt University School of Law and an inaugural dinner and address the previous evening. Our goal was to bring together and promote discussion among the leading authorities in this area from academia, private legal practice, business, "and government. The results of this Symposium have culminated in the publication of this special issue, which contains Articles, Essays, edited …


The Treaty With Poland Concerning Business And Economic Relations: Does It Provide More Incentive To The American Investor?, Todd Ewing Jan 1990

The Treaty With Poland Concerning Business And Economic Relations: Does It Provide More Incentive To The American Investor?, Todd Ewing

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Among the reformed East European countries now embracing democratic notions, Poland has been the most aggressive in the effort to reach full-fledged democracy. These efforts are reflected by Poland's recent amendments to its foreign investment law and, most recently, the signing of a treaty with the United States in hopes of attracting American investors. This article briefly examines the role and content of this treaty in the context of the overall United States treaty program and, more importantly, determines whether the Treaty has the potential to stimulate U.S. investment above and beyond the incentives now in place under the foreign …


Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson Jan 1964

Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this paper will be to analyze the origin of the concept, trace its (their) development, point out the most commonly used meanings, and then demonstrate the substantial irrelevance of the concept, by any of these definitions, to present-day river navigation and trade problems.