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Corporate Governance And Executive Compensation: Evidence From Japan, Curtis J. Milhaupt, Robert J. Jackson Jr. Dec 2013

Corporate Governance And Executive Compensation: Evidence From Japan, Curtis J. Milhaupt, Robert J. Jackson Jr.

Curtis J. Milhaupt

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State Constitutions And The Basic Structure Doctrine, Manoj Mate Dec 2013

State Constitutions And The Basic Structure Doctrine, Manoj Mate

Manoj S. Mate

cross the United States, voters in many states have enacted initiative constitutional amendments that abrogate protections for equality and fundamental rights. In most cases, state supreme courts have upheld the validity of these amendments, undermining protections for fundamental rights at the state level. This Article proposes a novel solution to this problem: it argues for the application of the basic structure doctrine in the review of constitutional amendments by state supreme courts. Under this doctrine, the Supreme Court of India (like constitutional courts in other nations) asserted the power to invalidate amendments that abrogate "basic features" of the Indian Constitution …

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High Courts And Election Law Reform In The United States And India, Manoj Mate Dec 2013

High Courts And Election Law Reform In The United States And India, Manoj Mate

Manoj S. Mate

Over the past decade, the push for electoral reform in India and the United States – the world’s two largest democracies – has been promi- nent in the politics and governance of both nations. The supreme courts in each country have played important, but distinct, roles in recent electoral reform efforts, responding to different facets and regimes of political corruption. In the 1990s, the Indian Supreme Court became increasingly assertive in requiring greater levels of dis- closure and transparency for political parties in India. In a series of decisions in 2002 and 2003, the Indian Supreme Court challenged the Central …

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How Should Hong Kong Regulate Open-Ended Investment Companies?, Bryane Michael Dec 2013

How Should Hong Kong Regulate Open-Ended Investment Companies?, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has begun its consultation on the legal framework for setting up open-ended investment companies. Yet, much of the advice it has received as been off the mark. In this small brief, we suggest planting the statutory basis for these companies in the Companies Ordinance.

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Constructive Unamendability In Canada And The United States, Richard Albert Dec 2013

Constructive Unamendability In Canada And The United States, Richard Albert

Richard Albert

Democratic constitutions often entrench provisions against formal amendment. For example, republicanism is formally unamendable in Italy, as is federalism in Germany, political pluralism in Portugal, and secularism in Turkey. Neither the Canadian Constitution nor the United States Constitution entrenches a similar form of formal unamendability. But both entrench a peculiar form of unamendability that results from neither constitutional design nor constitutional law but from constitutional politics. Constructive unamendability derives from a political climate that makes it practically unlikely, though not theoretically impossible, to meet the high thresholds the constitution sets for formal amendment unless constitutional politics somehow perform heroics. Faced …

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El Derecho A La Vida En Una Sentencia Del Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional De Bolivia [The Right To Life In A Judgment By The Constitutional Court Of Bolivia], Ligia M. De Jesus, Nicolás Lafferriere, María Inés Franck Dec 2013

El Derecho A La Vida En Una Sentencia Del Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional De Bolivia [The Right To Life In A Judgment By The Constitutional Court Of Bolivia], Ligia M. De Jesus, Nicolás Lafferriere, María Inés Franck

Ligia De Jesus Castaldi

ESPANOL: El 5 de febrero de 2014, el Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional de Bolivia emitió sentencia en la causa de Acción de inconstitucionalidad abstracta promovida por Patricia Mancilla Martínez, Diputada de la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional, orientada a declarar la inconstitucionalidad de varios artículos del Código Penal en los que, a juicio de la diputada accionante, las mujeres resultaban perjudicadas o discriminadas en sus derechos. Así, las situaciones que se examinaron en la causa incluían la detención domiciliaria de las mujeres, causales de atenuación honoris causa en el delito de alteración del estado civil, entre otros. En este marco, el presente comentario …

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The Age Of Constitutions In The Americas, M. C. Mirow Dec 2013

The Age Of Constitutions In The Americas, M. C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

This essay discusses essential elements of the Age of Constitutions in the Americas. These elements are the United States Constitution and state constitutions, English constitutional practices, the French Revolution and the republic constitutions, the Cortes of Cadiz and the Spanish Constitution of 1812, and Haitian independence and the constitutions of the early republic.

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India’S State Of Legal Education: The Road From Nlsiu To Jindal, Deepa Badrinarayana Dec 2013

India’S State Of Legal Education: The Road From Nlsiu To Jindal, Deepa Badrinarayana

Deepa Badrinarayana

This narrative is a reflection of the changes that the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) ushered in India, prior to globalization. It reflects on the challenges to legal education in India pre-globalization and the efforts made through the creation of NLSIU to address these challenges, and it also introduces some of the challenges facing Indian legal education in a globalized world.

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Transparency In International Economic Relations And The Role Of The Wto, Padideh Ala'i , Matthew D'Orsi Dec 2013

Transparency In International Economic Relations And The Role Of The Wto, Padideh Ala'i , Matthew D'Orsi

Padideh Ala'i

Chapter focuses on transparency commitments in WTO covered agreements. Discusses major provisions in WTO covered agreements regarding transparency and analyzes the application of thosse provisions before WTO panels and the Appellate Body.

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