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Strengthening The Foundation For World Peace - A Case For Democratizing The United Nations, Jarvis J. Lagman Esq. Dec 2014

Strengthening The Foundation For World Peace - A Case For Democratizing The United Nations, Jarvis J. Lagman Esq.

Jarvis J. Lagman Esq.

ABSTRACT Strengthening the Foundation for World Peace: A Case for Democratizing the United Nations By Jarvis J. Lagman, Esq. The objective of this treatise is to show how the democratization of the United Nations would strengthen the foundation for world peace by increasing its effectiveness as a transnational governmental institution, promoting the harmonization of how different political systems value political legitimacy and facilitating the diffusion of democratic culture in a manner that minimizes conflict with existing political hegemonies. The achievement of a sustainable world peace requires the global harmonization of political systems to recognize each individual’s right to self-determination. Given …


Nature Of Mortgage In Iran And The U.S. Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Dec 2014

Nature Of Mortgage In Iran And The U.S. Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

In recent years the contract needs a suitable enforcement that help the parties to get his or her goals due to abuser which is interested in postponing and don't care his or her obligation ,therefore in this article we want to consider Mortgage contract elements.


Breach Of The Contract In Iran, Egypt , And The U.S Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Dec 2014

Breach Of The Contract In Iran, Egypt , And The U.S Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Misrepresentation And Its Elements In Iran And Egypt, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Misrepresentation And Its Elements In Iran And Egypt, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Misrepresentation And Its Elements In Iran And Egypt, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Misrepresentation And Its Elements In Iran And Egypt, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Comparison Iran Laws And The U.S. Violation Obligation In Civil Law, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Comparison Iran Laws And The U.S. Violation Obligation In Civil Law, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Workshop Democracy: Making Policy In Cote D'Ivoire, Max Levin Nov 2014

Workshop Democracy: Making Policy In Cote D'Ivoire, Max Levin

Max Levin

Development experts would benefit from a better understanding of how policy is made in developing countries. In this article, I describe how health policy is made in Cote d’Ivoire, from the perspective of a Westerner embedded in the Ministry of Health for 10 months. I provide a narrative of how one health system reform—performance-based financing—moved from policy idea to enacted reform. I describe the origins of the reform in Cote d’Ivoire, how the government came to support the reform, and then the mechanics of how the reform was enacted. I then present observations on how policymaking in Cote d’Ivoire differs …


Necessary And Obligaions Commitment In Iran Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Necessary And Obligaions Commitment In Iran Laws, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Barriers In The Law Of Obligations, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Barriers In The Law Of Obligations, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Barriers In The Law Of Obligations, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Barriers In The Law Of Obligations, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

No abstract provided.


Comparision Iran Law And Eurosia Law, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani Nov 2014

Comparision Iran Law And Eurosia Law, Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

Mohamad Ali Ali Yousefkhani

comareative law


El Artículo 190 Del Código Civil Peruano: De La Lógica De Un Concepto A La Ilógica De Un Sistema, Jose Gabriel Rivera Nov 2014

El Artículo 190 Del Código Civil Peruano: De La Lógica De Un Concepto A La Ilógica De Un Sistema, Jose Gabriel Rivera

Jose L. Gabriel Rivera

El autor, logra evidenciar como dentro del Instituto de la simulación de los negocios jurídicos perviven (y conviven) tres sistemas diversos a saber: el alemán, el italiano y el francés. El punto principal radica en saber a qué sistema debería afiliarse el sistema peruano.


Regulation Of Chemical Risks: Lessons For Tsca Reform From Canada And The European Union, Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham Sep 2014

Regulation Of Chemical Risks: Lessons For Tsca Reform From Canada And The European Union, Adam Abelkop, John D. Graham

Adam Abelkop

The United States Congress is considering reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976. This Article compares recent reforms in Europe and Canada in order to draw lessons for TSCA reform. In 2006, the European Union enacted the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation while Canada used existing authority under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) of 1999 to initiate the 2006 Chemicals Management Plan (CMP). Focusing on the tens of thousands of industrial chemicals now in use in the US, we offer several suggestions for TSCA reform based on the European and Canadian experiences. …


Nuclear Chain Reaction: Why Economic Sanctions Are Not Worth The Public Costs, Nicholas C.W. Wolfe Sep 2014

Nuclear Chain Reaction: Why Economic Sanctions Are Not Worth The Public Costs, Nicholas C.W. Wolfe

Nicholas A Wolfe

International economic sanctions frequently violate human rights in targeted states and rarely achieve their objectives. However, many hail economic sanctions as an important nonviolent tool for coercing and persuading change. In November 2013, the Islamic Republic of Iran negotiated a temporary agreement with major world powers regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The United States’ media and politicians have repeatedly and incorrectly attributed Iran’s willingness to negotiate to the effectiveness of economic sanctions.

Politicians primarily focus on immediate domestic effects and enact sanctions without a thorough understanding of the long-term effects on the United States economy and the public within a targeted …


Governing For The Corporations: History And Analysis Of U.S. Promotion Of Foreign Investment, Michael R. Miller Sep 2014

Governing For The Corporations: History And Analysis Of U.S. Promotion Of Foreign Investment, Michael R. Miller

Michael R Miller

This paper explores and analyzes U.S. government support for foreign investors, especially major oil companies.

Throughout the 20th Century the US government has repeatedly used its international political influence to benefit US corporate activities abroad. The US government and others assumed initially that this was in the larger interests of the United States because US companies would represent and promote the United States’ policy agenda.

However, US corporate activities abroad over the last century seem to indicate this assumption was flawed. In numerous examples, US corporations have either ignored or thwarted the stated interests of the US government. At first …


The Urban Situation: Cities’ Place In Decentralized Government Frameworks, Michael R. Miller Sep 2014

The Urban Situation: Cities’ Place In Decentralized Government Frameworks, Michael R. Miller

Michael R Miller

This article compares how several developing, emerging market, and former socialist countries' laws classify or rank city governments in relation both to other tiers of subnational government (e.g., state-, province-, and county-level governments) and to other cities. It primarily focuses on the laws of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia, Poland, and Kazakhstan.


The Ciudades Modelo Project: Testing The Legality Of Paul Romer’S Charter Cities Concept By Analyzing The Constitutionality Of The Honduran Zones For Employment And Economic Development, Michael R. Miller Sep 2014

The Ciudades Modelo Project: Testing The Legality Of Paul Romer’S Charter Cities Concept By Analyzing The Constitutionality Of The Honduran Zones For Employment And Economic Development, Michael R. Miller

Michael R Miller

Over the last several years, the Honduran government has been aggressively advancing a "model cities" project that it argues will provide options for its citizens to escape the extreme violence in their country without migrating to the U.S. The model cities, which are formally called "Zones for Employment and Economic Development" ("ZEDEs"), are purported to be autonomously governed areas that will attract foreign investment and compete for residents by establishing safer communities and better managed institutions governed by the rule of law.

The ZEDEs trace their origin to a concept formulated by development economist Paul Romer, who proposed the idea …


Desvelando Los Intereses Ocultos: Neoliberalismo En La Nueva "Defensa Posesoria Extrajudicial", Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni Sep 2014

Desvelando Los Intereses Ocultos: Neoliberalismo En La Nueva "Defensa Posesoria Extrajudicial", Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni

Joshimar De la cruz Aroni

Visión crítica de la Nueva Defensa Posesoria Extrajudicial


El Quinto Pleno Casatorio Civil Y Una Oportunidad Perdida Para Revalorizar El Rol De La Jurisprudencia, Jimmy J. Ronquillo Pascual Sep 2014

El Quinto Pleno Casatorio Civil Y Una Oportunidad Perdida Para Revalorizar El Rol De La Jurisprudencia, Jimmy J. Ronquillo Pascual

Jimmy J. Ronquillo Pascual

El autor señala que la impugnación de acuerdos de asociación se refi ere a la categoría de la anulabilidad. Así, el artículo 92 del Código Civil convierte causas de nulidad en causas de anulabilidad, pero la conversión opera dentro de la categoría de los actos colegiales asociativos inválidos, mas no respecto de aquellos actos colegiales asociativos que deben ser considerados como inexistentes. Por ello, considera que los asociados tienen a su disposición los remedios de anulabilidad e inexistencia, dependiendo de la patología que afecte al acto colegial asociativo que se busca cuestionar.


The National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History, Impacting Foreign Relations?, Mark P. Nevitt Aug 2014

The National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History, Impacting Foreign Relations?, Mark P. Nevitt

Mark P Nevitt

The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) is a remarkable statutory success story, properly lauded for protecting American historic properties since its passage in 1966. But there is another, more intricate story to the NHPA. Congress added a unique extraterritoriality provision to the NHPA, implementing U.S. obligations under the World Heritage Convention (WHC), a treaty that protects properties of cultural and natural heritage worldwide. This provision requires federal agencies to take into account the effect of any undertaking outside the United States on the applicable nation’s equivalent National Register. Its proper scope and jurisdiction were unclear–until recently.A federal district court ruled …


Constitutional Interpretation In Law-Making: China’S Invisible Constitutional Enforcement Mechanism, Tom Ginsburg, Yan Lin Aug 2014

Constitutional Interpretation In Law-Making: China’S Invisible Constitutional Enforcement Mechanism, Tom Ginsburg, Yan Lin

Tom Ginsburg

Abstract: It is conventional wisdom that China’s Constitution is unenforceable, and plays little role in China’s legal system, other than as a symbolic document. This view rests on the fact that the Supreme Court has no power to interpret the Constitution. The formal body with interpretive power, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, has never issued an official interpretation. Despite this apparent lack of enforcement, we argue that China’s Constitution indeed plays an increasingly important role within the party-state. It does through not through the courts but through the legislative process, in which formal requirements of constitutional review …


On The Public-Law Character Of Competition Law: A Lesson Of Asian Capitalism, Michael Dowdle Aug 2014

On The Public-Law Character Of Competition Law: A Lesson Of Asian Capitalism, Michael Dowdle

Michael Dowdle

This article argues that competition law is best seen as a form of public law – ‘the law that governs the governing of the state – and not as simply a form of private market regulation. It uses the experiences of ‘Asian capitalism’ to show how capitalist economies are in fact much more variegated than the orthodox model of competition law presumes, and that this variegated character demands a form of regulation that is innately political rather than simply technical. Orthodox competition regimes address this complexity by segregating non-standard capitalisms into alternative doctrinal jurisprudences, but this renders conceptually invisible the …


The Law And Economics Of Microfinance, Katherine Helen Mary Hunt Aug 2014

The Law And Economics Of Microfinance, Katherine Helen Mary Hunt

Katherine Helen Mary Hunt

Financial inclusion may be jargon which appeals to international donors and academics, but the strategic implementation in developing countries is often based on international du jour priorities, such as microfinance. The topic of microfinance is highly debated in the academic literature, although little empirical work has been published. Further, no literature to date has considered microfinance from a law and economics perspective. This paper seeks to contribute to the gap in the literature by considering how microfinance has evolved to address the credit market failure, and how microfinance regulation should be designed to promote long term financial inclusion via financially …


Bank Resolution In The European Banking Union: A Transatlantic Perspective On What It Would Take, Jeffrey N. Gordon Aug 2014

Bank Resolution In The European Banking Union: A Transatlantic Perspective On What It Would Take, Jeffrey N. Gordon

Jeffrey N Gordon

The project of creating a European Banking Union is designed to overcome the fatal link between sovereigns and their banks in the Eurozone. As part of this project, political agreement for a common supervision framework and a common resolution scheme has been reached with difficulty. However, the resolution framework is weak, underfunded and exhibits some serious flaws. Further, Member States’ disagreements appear to rule out a federalized deposit insurance scheme, commonly regarded as the necessary third pillar of a successful Banking Union. This paper argues for an organizational and capital structure substitute for these two shortcomings that can minimize the …


Regulatory Institutions Of The Global South: Why Are They Different And What Can Be Done About It?, Yugank Goyal Aug 2014

Regulatory Institutions Of The Global South: Why Are They Different And What Can Be Done About It?, Yugank Goyal

Yugank Goyal

Developing countries suffer from underperforming regulatory agencies compared to those in the developed world. The paper attempts to theorize general reasons behind such divergence. It argues that the differences lie in developing countries’ (a) higher priorities for redistribution, (b) structurally different institutional endowments, especially at informal level, and (c) limited informational channels. The paper proposes that a multi-stakeholder (with increased emphasis on judiciary and civil society) approach has potential to address the shortcomings. It tests these claims through studying cases of telecom and electricity regulation in India.


Essential Facilities Doctrine And China’S Anti-Monopoly Law, Yong Huang, Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang, Xin Roger Zhang Aug 2014

Essential Facilities Doctrine And China’S Anti-Monopoly Law, Yong Huang, Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang, Xin Roger Zhang

Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang

No abstract provided.


Ensayo Sobre La Nueva Ley Universitaria 30220, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni Jul 2014

Ensayo Sobre La Nueva Ley Universitaria 30220, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni

Joshimar De la cruz Aroni

No abstract provided.


Plead Guilty, Without Bargaining: Learning From China’S “Summary Procedure” Before Enacting Indonesia’S “Special Procedure” In Criminal Procedure., Choky Risda Ramadhan Mr. Jul 2014

Plead Guilty, Without Bargaining: Learning From China’S “Summary Procedure” Before Enacting Indonesia’S “Special Procedure” In Criminal Procedure., Choky Risda Ramadhan Mr.

Choky Risda Ramadhan Mr.

Because Indonesian courts are increasingly overrun with criminal cases, Indonesian lawmakers recently introduced a criminal procedure bill to include “special procedure” (jalur khusus), a procedure that allows defendants to plead guilty in order to increase efficiency. Unlike plea-bargaining in the U.S., this procedure more resembles China’s “summary procedure,” which is solely conducted by a judge, not negotiated independently by prosecutors and defendants. Before enacting the provision of special procedure, however, Indonesian lawmakers should learn from China’s successes and failures implementing summary procedure. While this procedure resulted in increased efficiency in China, it did not provide for defense counsel, and …


Syllabus-2014-Cclsaarcn-Monsoon Semester-Llm-Dna-Fls-Sau-Comparative Constitutional Law Of Saarc Nations, Dr Nafees Ahmad Jul 2014

Syllabus-2014-Cclsaarcn-Monsoon Semester-Llm-Dna-Fls-Sau-Comparative Constitutional Law Of Saarc Nations, Dr Nafees Ahmad

Dr Nafees Ahmad

The Constitutional Law is the part of the core curriculum that every student should study. The course aims to equip students for comparative analysis of major constitutional principles and institutions. In order to do so the course will introduce students into the methods of comparative constitutional law and comparative politics of constitution. It is hard to imagine functioning as a judge or jurist or lawyer etc. anywhere in the world without a basic knowledge of a nation’s charter of government and repository of individual rights. But South Asian University is a unique and rare concept that is unprecedented and has …


"That Gear Stick Is Not Your Husband's P----." Why The Dissent In Vance V. Ball State University Got It Right, And A Comparison Of The Law Of Employer Vicarious Liability For Sexual Harassment In The United States And South Africa, Justin A. Behravesh Jul 2014

"That Gear Stick Is Not Your Husband's P----." Why The Dissent In Vance V. Ball State University Got It Right, And A Comparison Of The Law Of Employer Vicarious Liability For Sexual Harassment In The United States And South Africa, Justin A. Behravesh

Justin A. Behravesh

This article provides unique critical analysis of the United States Supreme Court's June 2013 decision of Vance v. Ball State University, by comparing that decision to recent South African common law and statutory developments. I argue that Vance's redefinition of what constitutes a "supervisor" for purposes of vicarious liability will have devastating effect on working women in the United States. Ultimately using South African law as a model framework, I conclude that the factors that should trigger vicarious liability should be based on policy concerns, not arbitrary definitions of what constitutes a "supervisor."