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Constitutional Fiats: Presidential Legislation In India's Parliamentary Democracy, Shubhankar Dam
Constitutional Fiats: Presidential Legislation In India's Parliamentary Democracy, Shubhankar Dam
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The article presents information on the presidential legislation of the parliamentary democracies, India and Pakistan. It discusses the role of the President acting as the Council of Ministers for the enactment of legislations as ordinances without the consent of the Parliament. Information on the legal interpretation of the ordinances and its interaction with the principles of the parliamentary system of the government is also presented.
Iftikhar Chaudhry’S Options: Can The Courts Remake Pakistani Democracy?, Shubhankar Dam
Iftikhar Chaudhry’S Options: Can The Courts Remake Pakistani Democracy?, Shubhankar Dam
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries In International Law, Makau Wa Mutua
Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries In International Law, Makau Wa Mutua
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This is a review of Jeremy Levitt’s edited collection of chapters in Africa: Mapping the Boundaries of International Law, which is an impressive work to the dearth of scholarship on Africa’s contribution to the normative substance and theory of international law. The book explicitly seeks to counter the racist mythology that Africans were tabula rasa in international law. In his own introduction to the book, Levitt makes it clear that “Africa is a legal marketplace, not a lawless basket case.” The eight contributors to the book are renowned scholars who make the case that Africa is not stuck in pre-history …
The Truth About Haiti, Irwin P. Stotzky