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Revolution In The Balance: Law And Society In Contemporary Cuba, Eugene Whitlock May 1995

Revolution In The Balance: Law And Society In Contemporary Cuba, Eugene Whitlock

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Revolution in the Balance: Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba by Debra Evenson


Administering Justice In A Consensus-Based Society, Koichiro Fujikura May 1993

Administering Justice In A Consensus-Based Society, Koichiro Fujikura

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox by John O. Haley


The Servants, Stephan Landsman Feb 1985

The Servants, Stephan Landsman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Barristers' Clerks, the Law's Middlemen by John Flood


Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard May 1984

Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard

Michigan Law Review

Federal structures are often established by national founders to manage intractable problems created over generations, if not centuries, by the migration of peoples. Military and economic pressures may stimulate union to assure survival, but ethnic, racial or religious tensions sometimes hamper draftsmen who sense the need for unity. Federation has often been the modem solution to the conflict between the need for unity and the desire for autonomy felt by groups fearing the loss of identity.


Socialist Federation--A Legal Means To The Solution Of The Nationality Problem: A Comparative Study, Viktor Knapp May 1984

Socialist Federation--A Legal Means To The Solution Of The Nationality Problem: A Comparative Study, Viktor Knapp

Michigan Law Review

The history of federations is both long and short. It is long in that the federation originated with the Swiss Confederation, which dates back to the 1291 defense confederacy of the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden; it is short because the second federation in world history, one that has become a model for many others, did not come into being until almost five centuries later in America.


A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader Mar 1983

A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Courts--A Comparative and Political Analysis by Martin Shapiro, and Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 by Richard L. Kagan


A Significant Contribution To The Literature Of Comparative Law, Arthur T. Von Mehren Mar 1979

A Significant Contribution To The Literature Of Comparative Law, Arthur T. Von Mehren

Michigan Law Review

A Review of An Introduction to Comparative Law: Vol.I, The Framework; Vol. II, The Institutions of Private Law by Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kötz


South Africa: Using The Law To Establish And Maintain A Pigmentocracy, Rex S. Heinke Mar 1979

South Africa: Using The Law To Establish And Maintain A Pigmentocracy, Rex S. Heinke

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Human Rights and the South African Legal Order by John Dugard


Max Planck Institute For Comparative Public Law And International Law: Judicial Protection Against The Executive, Pieter Van Dijk Jun 1972

Max Planck Institute For Comparative Public Law And International Law: Judicial Protection Against The Executive, Pieter Van Dijk

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judicial Protection Against the Executive Edited by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law


An American Lawyer In The Queen's Courts: Impressions Of English Civil Procedure, Benjamin Kaplan Apr 1971

An American Lawyer In The Queen's Courts: Impressions Of English Civil Procedure, Benjamin Kaplan

Michigan Law Review

While the words "English Civil Procedure" in the title of this lecture might suggest that there is a single English system, there are in fact a number of them. In the High Court itself, the court of general jurisdiction, a suit in Chancery Division proceeds differently from an action in Queen's Bench Division: the English have made less of a fetish of the "one form of action" than we have. Procedure in the County Courts, the courts for small-debt collection and miscellaneous claims, contrasts with those of the High Court. But Queen's Bench procedure for the staple cases of some …