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Gotta Catch ‘Em All!: The National Diet’S Inadequate Attempt To Control Manga Pirates, Sydney Landers Nov 2021

Gotta Catch ‘Em All!: The National Diet’S Inadequate Attempt To Control Manga Pirates, Sydney Landers

University of Miami Law Review

Internet piracy threatens Japan’s most popular cultural exports: manga and anime. Fans have taken to translating and distributing the works online for other fans to enjoy because official translated versions of manga and anime are released overseas later than the original in Japan, or they are never released at all. In order to combat the illegal downloading and distributing of manga, the National Diet, Japan’s legislature, passed an amendment to the Japanese Copyright Act that increases punishments for leech sites and illegal downloading of manga.
This Note discusses the manga and anime industries and their struggles with piracy before reviewing …


Retroactivity In Administrative Decisions In U.A.E. (Theoretical & Applied Study) By Farouk El Arabi Apr 2021

Retroactivity In Administrative Decisions In U.A.E. (Theoretical & Applied Study) By Farouk El Arabi

UAEU Law Journal

The study deals with retroactivity in administrative decisions in U.A.E. It encompasses three parameters; first retroactivity in law, second retroactivity in administrative decisions, the third parameter concerns retroactivity according to legislature applied in U.A.E. The first parameter acts as an introduction to the next two which comprises the main issues in this study. The first parameter briefly discusses the principles of non-retroactivity of laws and whether legislature may overlook this principle. The second parameter categorizes administrative decisions. Into individual and organizational, the latter being subdivided into revealing and institutional laws. The effect of this subdivision on non-retroactivity is then discussed, …


New Rules In The Amended Jordanian Landlords And Tenants Act No 17/2009, Ahmad Ali Al Ouwaidi, Abdelnaser Zeyad Hayajneh Mar 2021

New Rules In The Amended Jordanian Landlords And Tenants Act No 17/2009, Ahmad Ali Al Ouwaidi, Abdelnaser Zeyad Hayajneh

UAEU Law Journal

The Jordanian legislature amended the Landlords and Tenants Act No 17, 2009; it includes new rules which represent a significant change in the relationship between landlords and tenants. In an analytical and critical approach, this research explores these new rules, especially the rules concerning the gradual termination of lease contracts concluded before 31/8/2000, in a period from 12/21/2010 to 12/31/2015. The rules also stipulate an increase in the rent ranging from 1% to 6%. The study furthermore discusses the landlords' rights such as the new procedures set in the amended Tenant Act, by which the landlord can undertake in case …


The Role Of The French Council In Absolving The Liability Of The State For Its Laws.", Walid Mohammed Abbas Feb 2021

The Role Of The French Council In Absolving The Liability Of The State For Its Laws.", Walid Mohammed Abbas

UAEU Law Journal

The legislation process of the most important work entrusted to legally delegated because of their direct impact on the interests of the citizens, and all walks of life in the state, the legislature pass a law damages the particular individual or specific individuals in the community, do they may go to court to claim compensation for damages afflicted as a result of the work of the legislature? In fact, the legislature when it puts the legal rules that lead to the organization of society carries on business sovereign, and therefore it is unacceptable accountability, and the elimination of the work …


Can President Trump Be Impeached As Mr. Trump? Exploring The Temporal Dimension Of Impeachments, Harold J. Krent Jan 2021

Can President Trump Be Impeached As Mr. Trump? Exploring The Temporal Dimension Of Impeachments, Harold J. Krent

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability, Diana Sclar Jan 2021

Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability, Diana Sclar

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Most state rules of substantive law, whether legislative or judicial, ordinarily adjust rights and obligations among local parties with respect to local events. Conventional choice of law methodologies for adjudicating disputes with multistate connections all start from an explicit or implicit assumption of a choice between such locally oriented substantive rules. This article reveals, for the first time, that some state rules of substantive law ordinarily adjust rights and obligations with respect to parties and events connected to more than one state and only occasionally apply to wholly local matters. For these rules I use the term “nominally domestic rules …