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Different Roads To The Rule Of Law: Their Importance For Law Reform In Taiwan, James Maxeiner Dec 2003

Different Roads To The Rule Of Law: Their Importance For Law Reform In Taiwan, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

Talk of law reform is in the air throughout East Asia. Whether in Beijing or Tokyo or here, law reform is spoken of in terms of strengthening the Rule of Law. But what is the Rule of Law? Different legal systems have different roads to reach the Rule of Law. These different roads are noticeable mainly in the different emphases different systems place on two critical elements in the realization of the Rule of Law State, namely rules and the machinery for implementing the rules, i.e., courts and administrative agencies. The Rule of Law makes demands on both the legal …


Suem - Spitz's Ultimate Equitable Maxim: In Equity, Good Guys Should Win And Bad Guys Should Lose, Roger Young, Stephen Spitz Oct 2003

Suem - Spitz's Ultimate Equitable Maxim: In Equity, Good Guys Should Win And Bad Guys Should Lose, Roger Young, Stephen Spitz

South Carolina Law Review

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Minority Shareholder, Minority Citizen: A Perspective Piece, Anthony Briggs Apr 2003

Minority Shareholder, Minority Citizen: A Perspective Piece, Anthony Briggs

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Piercing The Corporate Veil Of A New York Not-For-Profit Corporation, Matthew D. Caudill Jan 2003

Piercing The Corporate Veil Of A New York Not-For-Profit Corporation, Matthew D. Caudill

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Resisting The Expansion Of Bankruptcy Court Power Under Section 105 Of The Bankruptcy Code: The All Writs Act And An Admonition From Chief Justice Marshall, Daniel Bogart Dec 2002

Resisting The Expansion Of Bankruptcy Court Power Under Section 105 Of The Bankruptcy Code: The All Writs Act And An Admonition From Chief Justice Marshall, Daniel Bogart

Daniel B. Bogart

This article is divided into three main parts. In the first part, the article criticizes the expansive use of section 105 of the Bankruptcy Code by bankruptcy courts, and argues that this is an inappropriate extension of bankruptcy court power. It begins with a history of section 105 and argues that the drafter intended section 105 to be of limited scope. The drafter assumed that bankruptcy courts would rely on the All Writs Act, upon which the language of section 105 is based. This part then examines a number of typical scenarios in which courts have over reached in application …