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Book Review: Brothers Of Gulag, Ira Robbins
Book Review: Brothers Of Gulag, Ira Robbins
Book Reviews
Review of The Gulag Archibelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume II. By Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. Harper & Row, 1975, Pp. v, 712.
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert Vaughn
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert Vaughn
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INTRODUCTION: Open and competitive examination is generally perceived as the surest method of ensuring that public employees are selected on the basis of their merit and ability. Since the Pendleton Act of 1883, legislation has continually attempted to implement the view that efficient and impartial public sector employment requires that qualifications be demonstrated in an objective examination. But blacks, women and other minorities have been systematically excluded from public employment. This exclusion has resulted not only from bias in the examination, but also from other less visible aspects of the appointment process which supplant strict merit selection.
Pro Se Litigation - Litigating Without Counsel: Faretta Or For Worse, Ira P. Robbins, Susan Herman
Pro Se Litigation - Litigating Without Counsel: Faretta Or For Worse, Ira P. Robbins, Susan Herman
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The Notaire In North America: A Short Study Of The Adaptation Of A Civil Law Institution, Barlow Burke
The Notaire In North America: A Short Study Of The Adaptation Of A Civil Law Institution, Barlow Burke
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Recent studies of American conveyancing have shown a tendency to compartmentalize the process of land transfer into stages: finding a property, financing its acquisition, proving title to it, and closing the transaction. This certainly helps clarify descriptive studies, but it diverts attention from the deficiencies in the existing process. The stages outlined are too neat and lack a sense of continuity. For example, between the finding and the closing stages lie the drafting and execution of a contract of sale, escrow instructions, a mortgage, and finally a deed. In negotiating the terms of these documents, one of the deficiencies found …
The Change-Mistake Rule And Zoning In Maryland, Barlow Burke
The Change-Mistake Rule And Zoning In Maryland, Barlow Burke
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INTRODUCTION: Zoning ordinances enacted under state enabling laws and home rule charters of municipalities are customarily entitled to a presumption that they were validly enacted, are within the powers delegated to the locality by the state, and are reasonable in effect. This presumption makes an exercise of the zoning power more easily defensible; one attacking the ordinance must show that it was passed incorrectly, or is beyond the scope of municipal authority, or is unreasonable, capricious or arbitrary in effect. Zoning officials have possessed this initial advantage in any litigation since the landmark decision of Village of Euclid v. Ambler …
Transnational Conveyancing, Barlow Burke
Transnational Conveyancing, Barlow Burke
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