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Dignity Takings In Communist Poland: Collectivization And Slave Soldiers, Ewa Kozerska, Piotr Stec Mar 2018

Dignity Takings In Communist Poland: Collectivization And Slave Soldiers, Ewa Kozerska, Piotr Stec

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Poland’s history in the 20th century could be a swell script of a movie. A country that had lost its independence in the 18th century regained it in 1918 only to fall prey to Nazi Germany twenty years later. After World War II Poland was under Communist rule that ended in 1989 with the fall of the Iron Curtain. In this paper we deal with dignity takings as defined by Professor Bernadette Atuahene that took place mostly in the early phase of the Communist era.

Creation of the Communist “brave new world” required total transformation of the society, sometimes referred …


Foreign Policy And The Government Legal Adviser, Henry Darwin Apr 2016

Foreign Policy And The Government Legal Adviser, Henry Darwin

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Place Of Policy In International Law, Richard A. Falk Apr 2016

The Place Of Policy In International Law, Richard A. Falk

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Place Of Policy In International Law, Elihu Lauterpacht Apr 2016

The Place Of Policy In International Law, Elihu Lauterpacht

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Scottish Independence Referendum And The Principles Of Democratic Secession, Benjamin Levites Jan 2015

The Scottish Independence Referendum And The Principles Of Democratic Secession, Benjamin Levites

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

On September 18, 2014, Scottish voters decided whether to sever the 307 years of unity between Scotland and the United Kingdom in an independence referendum. While the voters ultimately rejected independence, the process by which the Scots accomplished this historic exercise will inform further democratic secession movements.

This Note examines the significant implications of Scotland’s independence referendum by assessing the history of independence referendums and the present scope of relevant international law. The formative history of the independence referendum and modern precedential examples established the requirements for democratic secession. In turn, the Scottish independence referendum, in the context of evolving …


Neutrality, The Acquis Communautaire And The European Union's Search For A Common Foreign And Security Policy Under Title V Of The Maastricht Treaty: The Accession Of Austria, Finland And Sweden, G. Porter Elliott Oct 2014

Neutrality, The Acquis Communautaire And The European Union's Search For A Common Foreign And Security Policy Under Title V Of The Maastricht Treaty: The Accession Of Austria, Finland And Sweden, G. Porter Elliott

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Grzybowski: Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines And Social Functions, Isaac Shapiro May 1963

Grzybowski: Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines And Social Functions, Isaac Shapiro

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions. By Kazimierz Grzybowski.