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Categories And Culture: On The Rectification Of Names In Comparative Law , Janet E. Ainsworth Nov 1996

Categories And Culture: On The Rectification Of Names In Comparative Law , Janet E. Ainsworth

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lights, Camera, Litigate: Lawyers And The Media In Canada And The United States, Charles W. Wolfram Oct 1996

Lights, Camera, Litigate: Lawyers And The Media In Canada And The United States, Charles W. Wolfram

Dalhousie Law Journal

Drawing on recent high profile cases in Canada and the United States, the author examines the different extent to which lawyers in those two countries comment to the media about ongoing litigation. He investigates various formal constraints upon lawyer comment, such as court-imposed publication bans and rules of professional responsibility. He also looks at the way in which lawyer behaviour is attributable to non-formal, cultural determinants.


Foreign Legal Consultants: The Changing Role Of The Lawyer In A Global Economy, Andrew Pardieck Apr 1996

Foreign Legal Consultants: The Changing Role Of The Lawyer In A Global Economy, Andrew Pardieck

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


It's Not A Cultural Thing: Disparate Domestic Enforcement Of International Criminal Procedure Standards--A Comparison Of The United States And Egypt, Sohail Mered Jan 1996

It's Not A Cultural Thing: Disparate Domestic Enforcement Of International Criminal Procedure Standards--A Comparison Of The United States And Egypt, Sohail Mered

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Public Interest Lawyering In Mexico And The United States, Carl M. Selinger Jan 1996

Public Interest Lawyering In Mexico And The United States, Carl M. Selinger

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Condemned By Substance And Process: A Comment On "Doubly Condemned": Adjustments To The Crime And Punishment Regime In The Late Slavery Period In The British Caribbean Colonies And "Under The Present Mode Of Trial, Improper Verdicts Are Very Often Given": Criminal Procedure In The Trials Of Slaves In Antebellum Louisiana, Raymond T. Diamond Jan 1996

Condemned By Substance And Process: A Comment On "Doubly Condemned": Adjustments To The Crime And Punishment Regime In The Late Slavery Period In The British Caribbean Colonies And "Under The Present Mode Of Trial, Improper Verdicts Are Very Often Given": Criminal Procedure In The Trials Of Slaves In Antebellum Louisiana, Raymond T. Diamond

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law, Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law Jan 1996

Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law, Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The concept of intellectual property, or ideas protected by patents, copyrights, and trademarks, has been around since at least the 13th century. However, it is only in the last decade that "piracy," or the illegal copying and selling of copywritten or patented material, has become a contentious issue in trade negotiations between the nations of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres


Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law, Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law Jan 1996

Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law, Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


A Response To Mathias Reimann: More, More, More But Real Comparative Law, Nora V. Demleitner Jan 1996

A Response To Mathias Reimann: More, More, More But Real Comparative Law, Nora V. Demleitner

Scholarly Articles

None available.


Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi Jan 1996

Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi

Publications

No abstract provided.


Resolving Disputes Over Financial Management Of Athletes: English And American Experiences, James A.R. Nafziger Jan 1996

Resolving Disputes Over Financial Management Of Athletes: English And American Experiences, James A.R. Nafziger

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi Jan 1996

Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi

Publications

No abstract provided.


A Comparative And Critical Assessment Of Estoppel In International Law, Christopher Brown Jan 1996

A Comparative And Critical Assessment Of Estoppel In International Law, Christopher Brown

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar Dec 1995

Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

This article analyzes the development of the concept of informed consent in the context of the culture and economics of Japanese medicine, and locates that development within the framework of the nation's civil law system. Part II sketches the cultural foundations of medical paternalism in Japan; explores the economic incentives (many of them administratively directed) that have sustained physicians' traditional dominant roles; and describes the judiciary's hesitancy to challenge physicians' professional discretion. Part III delineates the forces testing the paternalist model: the undermining of the physicians' personal knowledge of their patients that accompanies the shift from neighborhood clinic to high-tech …