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The Sticks In The Chinese Property Rights Bundle, Gregory M. Stein

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Chinese Real Estate Law And The Law And Development Theory: Comparing Law And Practice, Gregory M. Stein

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Sexual Violence Against Men And Women In War: A Masculinities Approach, Valorie K. Vojdik

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Rape and sexual violence against men in war remains largely invisible, yet pervasive across time and place. The silence around male rape raises critical questions about male bodies, gender, and power that have been largely ignored by legal scholars and international courts. While feminist and human rights scholars have theorized rape of women as a weapon of war, they have largely ignored sexual violence against men. Following the mass rape of women in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, international tribunals recognized that sexual violence against women can constitute a weapon of war and a crime against humanity. In both conflicts, men …

The Laws Of Spaceflight: A Guidebook For New Space Lawyers, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Tunisia: Springtime For Defamation Of Religion, Robert C. Blitt

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Discovery In A Global Economy, Maurice Stucke

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Why Civil Law Countries Might Forego The Individual Trustee: Provocative Insights From The New-To-The-Fold, Iris Goodwin

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At the center of this article lies a decision in several civil law countries that have adopted the common law trust to restrict the office of trustee to banks and similar financial service institutions. Having had an opportunity to consider the trust anew, these countries represent a challenge to the common law where the individual – indeed the untutored individual – can still qualify as trustee (and serve in this capacity alone). This permissive common law regime obtains notwithstanding the size of the trust endowment or the number of beneficiaries whose interests might be at stake. Indeed, in some common …

What Is Competition?, Maurice Stucke

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Plurality Of Political Opinion And The Concentration Of The Media, Maurice Stucke

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Are People Self-Interested? The Implications Of Behavioral Economics On Competition Policy, Maurice Stucke

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Whither Secular Bear: The Russian Orthodox Church’S Strengthening Influence On Russia's Domestic And Foreign Policy, Robert C. Blitt

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As 2012 presidential elections in Russia draw near, evidence points to a collapse in that country’s constitutional obligation of secularism and state-church separation. Although early signs of this phenomenon can be traced back to the Yeltsin era, the Putin and Medvedev presidencies have dealt a fatal blow to secular state policy manifested both at home and abroad, as well as to Russia’s constitutional human rights principles including nondiscrimination and equality of religious beliefs.

The first part of this article argues that leadership changes in the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have triggered an unprecedented deepening of state-ROC …

Second Panel: Labor Markets, Income Inequality And Globalization, Fran Ansley

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'Babushka Said Two Things - It Will Either Rain Or Snow; It Either Will Or Will Not': An Analysis Of The Provisions And Human Rights Implications Of Russia's New Law On Nongovernmental Organizations As Told Through Eleven Russian Proverbs, Robert C. Blitt

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Longtime observers of Russia increasingly have called attention to and expressed profound concern for the direction the Russian Federation has taken in recent years. In advancing President Putin's vision of "dictatorship of law" and "managed democracy," the Russian government has retreated from key democratic reforms, undermining the transition away from Soviet rule and imperiling significant gains in fundamental human rights.

It is against this backdrop that, in January 2006, President Putin ratified major amendments to the 1996 Law on Nonprofit Organizations, which regulates the creation, reorganization, activity, and liquidation of NGOs in Russia. Putin has claimed that the amendments to …

Educating Workers About Labor Rights And Global Wrongs Through Documentary Film, Fran Ansley

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How To Entrench A De Facto State Church In Russia: A Guide In Progress, Robert C. Blitt

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The Russian Orthodox Church's (ROC) assertion of a constitutionally inappropriate role in affairs of state has severely compromised Russia's secular constitutional framework. This gradual but steady erosion of the barrier between church and state is evidenced by a series of contemporary developments that are inexorably linked to the Church's vision of its traditional place in Russian history.

Disturbingly, each successive post-communist regime has further enabled this behavior, and there is no indication that the political transition from President Vladimir Putin to his hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will change anything.

This paper argues that the emerging pattern of collusion presents a …

The Chinese Land Use Right Is It Property, Gregory M. Stein

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Sexual Abuse And Exploitation Of Women And Girls By U.N. Peacekeeping Troops, Valorie K. Vojdik

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International Space Law In Transformation: Some Observations, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Environmental Justice: A Universal Discourse, Dean Rivkin

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Who Will Watch The Watchdogs?: International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations And The Case For Regulation, Robert C. Blitt

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Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become a fixture within the international system and a driving force for creating and enforcing human rights norms at international law. This essay examines the growth of human rights NGOs and argues that the industry is in urgent need of formal regulation. After assessing the failure of informal market controls for ensuring accountability within the human rights NGO sector, this paper applies a law and economics consumer protection model to underscore the need for more formal regulation. However, rather than advance a case for government intervention, this paper proposes that human rights NGOs themselves …

Space Law In Its Second Half-Century, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Space Law In The 21st Century: Some Thoughts In Response To The Bush Administration's Space Initiative, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Legal, Political, And Ethical Hurdles To Applying International Human Rights Law In The State Courts Of The United States (And Arguments For Scaling Them), Penny White

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Inclusive Boundaries And Other (Im)Possible Paths Toward Community Development In A Global World, Fran Ansley

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This paper is based on a talk given at a University of Pennsylvania symposium on Social Movements and Law Reform. In it Professor Ansley takes as a case study the U.S. movement against plant closings. In the seventies, eighties and nineties this movement attempted to respond to the increasing flow of industrial capital from the U.S. to other countries. Like other social movements, it devoted a significant part of its energy to "framing" its issues - articulating and attempting to promote a particular way of looking at the issue of plant closings, de-industrialization, and the new international division of labor. …

Rethinking Law In Globalizing Labor Markets, Fran Ansley

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The Essential Elements Of Judicial Independence And The Experience Of Pre-Soviet Russia, Thomas E. Plank

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Legislative Comment: The Omnibus Space Commercialization Act Of 1993, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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North American Free Trade Agreement: The Public Debate, Fran Ansley

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U.S.-Mexico Free Trade From The Bottom: A Postcard From The Border, Fran Ansley

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United States Telecommunications Trade Policy: Critique And Suggestions, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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