Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Comparative and Foreign Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 5 of 5

Full-Text Articles in Comparative and Foreign Law

The Rule Of Law, Constitutional Reform, And The Death Penalty In The Gambia, Andrew Novak Jan 2013

The Rule Of Law, Constitutional Reform, And The Death Penalty In The Gambia, Andrew Novak

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

No abstract provided.


Back To The Bad Old Days: President Putin's Hold On Free Speech In The Russian Federation, Rebecca Favret Jan 2013

Back To The Bad Old Days: President Putin's Hold On Free Speech In The Russian Federation, Rebecca Favret

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

No abstract provided.


Two Understandings Of Supremacy: An Essay, Vincent J. Samar Jan 2010

Two Understandings Of Supremacy: An Essay, Vincent J. Samar

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Does the supremacy provision of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution undermine the legal force of international law in the United States? Recently, there has been some debate on this issue arising out of the claim that if the U.S. Constitution is “the supreme law of the land,” and that only constitutional officers of the United States, in keeping with their responsibilities to uphold the Constitution, can decide what is international law for the U.S. Such debates are not new to the history of the world. For much of world history, national rulers have claimed that their legal authority derives …


Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr. Jan 2008

Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr.

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Are lawyers strangling our government’s ability to fight the first war of the twenty-first century? Does judicial adventurism and the fear of litigation undermine the War Against Terrorism? In essence, is our national security apparatus overlawyered? This article analyzes how some lawyers have produced a synthetic “litigation culture” over the war on terror. It argues that litigation concerning electronic surveillance, interrogation and all manners of prisoner treatment has chilled counterintelligence since 9/11.


When Yasir Esam Hamdi Meets Zacarias Moussaoui, Frank Durham Jan 2004

When Yasir Esam Hamdi Meets Zacarias Moussaoui, Frank Durham

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

No abstract provided.