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Mortgage Law In China: Comparing Theory And Practice, Gregory M. Stein
Mortgage Law In China: Comparing Theory And Practice, Gregory M. Stein
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The first Chinese law focusing specifically on property rights became effective on October 1, 2007, which means that China's breakneck real estate development before that date occurred in a nation with no published law of real estate. Thus those who have been buying, selling, and lending against Chinese real estate have been operating in a world of significant legal uncertainty. Even with the new code, property law as it is practiced is likely to diverge significantly from the published rules.
This Article examines Chinese mortgage law as it actually operates in the field, focusing on both legal and business issues. …
Doomed To Re-Repeat History: The Triangle Fire, The World Trade Center Attack, And The Importance Of Strong Building Codes, Gregory M. Stein
Doomed To Re-Repeat History: The Triangle Fire, The World Trade Center Attack, And The Importance Of Strong Building Codes, Gregory M. Stein
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Imagine this: You are a member of a commission charged with recommending changes to the building code of a densely-packed urban city, say New York. Your recommendation is that high-rise office buildings are overly safe and that your city should relax its codes. That, more or less, is what happened in New York in 1968. Fifty-seven years after the Triangle Waist Company fire, in which 146 people trapped in the upper floors of an unsafe building burned, jumped, or fell from a collapsed fire escape to their deaths, New York City relaxed its safety rules for high-rise buildings.
In his …