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Columbia Law School

Faculty Scholarship

2001

Texas International Law Journal

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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 Jan 2001

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 Jan 2001

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 …