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Emerging Functions Of Formal Legal Institutions In China's Modernization, Stanley B. Lubman
Emerging Functions Of Formal Legal Institutions In China's Modernization, Stanley B. Lubman
Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies
In 1977 when China's leaders dedicated themselves to the four modernizations, they consciously decided to reestablish formal legal institutions as part of their ambitious plan of growth. In light of China's legal history since the Communist victory in 1949, this decision is significant. Since 1949 law had borne the heavy imprint of politics; since the late nineteen-fifties, the Chinese leadership had shown little concern for the fate of formal legal institutions; during the Cultural Revolution, the legal system had virtually disappeared. But since 1977, despite fluctuations in economic policy the attitudes of the leadership toward law, repeatedly echoed by lower …
The International Legal Status Of Foreign Government Deposits In Overseas Branches Of U.S. Banks, Robert B. Owen, Lori Fisler Damrosch
The International Legal Status Of Foreign Government Deposits In Overseas Branches Of U.S. Banks, Robert B. Owen, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Faculty Scholarship
Political as well as economic forces can lead governments to default on their obligations to foreign banks. For example, the demand of the revolutionary government of Iran that the United States return he former Shah and his wealth to Iran and the subsequent seizure of American embassy personnel in Tehran on November 4, 1979, were political events which quickly resulted in a default on Iranian obligations to U.S. banks.
Following the embassy seizure, the status of the Iranian Government's huge deposits in overseas branches of U.S. banks quickly came into question. In an effort to coerce the United States to …
Application Of Customary International Law By U.S. Domestic Tribunals, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Application Of Customary International Law By U.S. Domestic Tribunals, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Faculty Scholarship
In recent years there has been a significant expansion of the number and kinds of cases in U.S. courts raising issues of customary international law. U.S. courts are increasingly asked to enforce international norms of behavior against foreign governments, state and local governments, and indeed the U.S. Government itself. To a greater and greater extent the courts themselves have become actors on the international scene: in the view of one party to a lawsuit, judicial or quasi-judicial acts may threaten to violate international law, while in the view of another party those same sorts of acts can contribute affirmatively to …