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Standard Terms Contracting In The Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives, James Maxeiner
Standard Terms Contracting In The Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives, James Maxeiner
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This article examines American, European Union and German standard terms laws from an American perspective. It considers not only current law, but significant aspects of the development of these bodies of law. It sets out general issues involved in standard terms laws and summarizes American law. It notes the origin of American concepts in Europe and examines standard terms in the struggle over revision of the Uniform Commercial Code. It looks at the law of the European Union and its origin in the consumer movement. It considers in detail the law of one Member State as an example, that of …
Comparative And International Health Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Comparative And International Health Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Scholarly Articles
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The Economics Of Uniform Laws And Uniform Law Making, John Linarelli
The Economics Of Uniform Laws And Uniform Law Making, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
Uniform law making has a substantial history in the twentieth century. It seems to be continuing with some force into the twenty-first century. A significant American law and economics literature, however, questions its merit. By contrast, there have been limited rational choice oriented investigations of unification or centralization of law in Europe. Critics of the uniform law movement in the United States use methods of analysis influenced by public choice theory, political economics and positive political theory. The paper does not call into question the methods and assumptions of these approaches. The paper claims that economic analysis supports public policy …
Correspondences And Contradictions In International And Domestic Conflict Resolution: Lessons From General Theory And Varied Contexts, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Correspondences And Contradictions In International And Domestic Conflict Resolution: Lessons From General Theory And Varied Contexts, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Does the field of conflict resolution have any broadly applicable theories that "work" across the different domains of international and domestic conflict? Or, are contexts, participants, and resources so "domain" specific and variable that only "thick descriptions" of particular contexts will do? These are important questions which have been plaguing me in this depressing time for conflict resolution professionals, from September 11,2001 (9/11), to the war against Iraq. Have we learned anything about conflict resolution that really does improve our ability to describe, predict, and act to reduce unnecessary and harmful conflict? These are the questions I want to explore …
Sacred Sites And Religious Freedom On Government Land, Richard B. Collins
Sacred Sites And Religious Freedom On Government Land, Richard B. Collins
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