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Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle Aug 2010

Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

It is the aim of comparative law to examine the legal rules and patterns of order that drive a given society. For subjects of a particular legal system, this is a question of acculturation. Being the product of a culture, we often intuitively sense the hidden forces that play out below the surface of the external manifestation of law. Therefore, this task becomes more difficult when we find ourselves dealing with a foreign legal system. We must then call upon the tools of the anthropologist or archeologist: studying the underlying substrata of data that lie within a culture.


Content, Structure, And Growth Of Mexican Legal Education, Luis Fernando Perez Hurtado May 2010

Content, Structure, And Growth Of Mexican Legal Education, Luis Fernando Perez Hurtado

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


The Current State Of Legal Education Reform In Latin America: A Critical Appraisal, Juny Montoya May 2010

The Current State Of Legal Education Reform In Latin America: A Critical Appraisal, Juny Montoya

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


When The Clouds Hung Oppressively Low In The Heavens: Unhealthy Cost-Cutting In France And In The U.S., Pierre Loiseau May 2010

When The Clouds Hung Oppressively Low In The Heavens: Unhealthy Cost-Cutting In France And In The U.S., Pierre Loiseau

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Anomalies: When Canada's Proportionality And The U.S.'S Categorization Just Don't Fit The Bill, Zakarij N. Laux Apr 2010

Constitutional Anomalies: When Canada's Proportionality And The U.S.'S Categorization Just Don't Fit The Bill, Zakarij N. Laux

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Buck V. Bell: Thoughts Occasioned By Paul Lombardo's Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Michelle Oberman Feb 2010

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Buck V. Bell: Thoughts Occasioned By Paul Lombardo's Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Michelle Oberman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Reforming Indian Legal Education: Linking Research And Teaching, Lovely Dasgupta Feb 2010

Reforming Indian Legal Education: Linking Research And Teaching, Lovely Dasgupta

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of For The Common Good: Principles Of American Academic Freedom, By Matthew W. Finkin And Robert C. Post, David S. Tanenhaus Feb 2010

Book Review Of For The Common Good: Principles Of American Academic Freedom, By Matthew W. Finkin And Robert C. Post, David S. Tanenhaus

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Equality Before The Law And The Social Contract: When Will The United States Finally Guarantee Its People The Equality Before The Law That The Social Contract Demands?, Earl Johnson, Jr. Jan 2010

Equality Before The Law And The Social Contract: When Will The United States Finally Guarantee Its People The Equality Before The Law That The Social Contract Demands?, Earl Johnson, Jr.

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Most European and several countries elsewhere in the world have recognized a right to counsel in many or most civil cases for as long as decades or even centuries - and many of these countries are willing to spend, proportionately, anywhere from three to twelve times as much of their national income as the U.S. currently does on the provision of counsel to their lower income populations in civil cases. This Article examines how courts around the world have interpreted the constitutional provisions emanating from the theory that underpins the right to equality before the law and why these decisions …