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Challenges To Fragile Democracies In The Americas: Legitimacy And Accountability, Martin Böhmer, A.R. Brewer-Carías, Helen Beatriz Mack Chang, Sarah H. Cleveland, Francisco Cox, Lourdes Flores Nano, H.W. Perry Jr., Steven Ratner, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Roberto Saba, Dean Michael Sharlot, Nicolas Shumway, Gerald Torres
Challenges To Fragile Democracies In The Americas: Legitimacy And Accountability, Martin Böhmer, A.R. Brewer-Carías, Helen Beatriz Mack Chang, Sarah H. Cleveland, Francisco Cox, Lourdes Flores Nano, H.W. Perry Jr., Steven Ratner, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Roberto Saba, Dean Michael Sharlot, Nicolas Shumway, Gerald Torres
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February 25, 2000, the University of Texas School of Law hosted an extraordinary gathering to discuss the fragility of democracies in Latin America and the dangers that they face. The event was sponsored by several institutions at the University of Texas: the School of Law, the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts Democracy in the Third Millennium Program, and the International Law Society at the School of Law.
European Law: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, George A. Bermann
European Law: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, George A. Bermann
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Hans Baade's career spans a period marked by the progressive recognition of European law in American academic circles. At the time that Hans Baade decided to make the United States his academic home, historical circumstances had only recently brought to American shores a whole generation of legal scholars, mostly continental European in background and training. Aided by the compelling nature of the stories about law that they had to tell, these scholars connected strategically with an American legal academy that was then only slowly and tentatively emerging from what could be described, not unfairly, as a period of relative intellectual …
Legal Aid And Public Interest Law In China, Benjamin L. Liebman
Legal Aid And Public Interest Law In China, Benjamin L. Liebman
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This article describes the evolution of legal aid and public interest law in China and examines its implications for the legal profession and the law in the context of four intertwined developments: first, China's efforts to establish a nationwide system of government-run legal aid centers; second, China's attempt to expand the availability and improve the quality of legal representation for indigent criminal defendants; third, China's bid to force the legal profession to serve poor clients via mandatory pro bono requirements for lawyers; fourth, the development of non-governmental legal aid centers and the expanding incentives for profit-oriented lawyers to take on …