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Full-Text Articles in Comparative and Foreign Law
Can You Bank On It? Italy's Response To The Second Banking Directive Of The European Community, Jeffrey A. Orr
Can You Bank On It? Italy's Response To The Second Banking Directive Of The European Community, Jeffrey A. Orr
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Germany Reunified: International And Constitutional Problems, Helmut Steinberger
Germany Reunified: International And Constitutional Problems, Helmut Steinberger
BYU Law Review
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National Socialism And The Rule Of Law, Donald P. Kommers
National Socialism And The Rule Of Law, Donald P. Kommers
Journal Articles
Ingo Muller's book, originally published in 1987 as Furchtbare Juristen: Die unbewaltigte Vergangenheit unserer Justiz (literally "Dreadful Jurists: The Remorseless Past of Our Judiciary"), describes the moral collapse of the German legal profession and its role in facilitating the construction and maintenance of the Nazi regime. Gracefully translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Hitler's Justice seeks, first, to show how legal professionals betrayed their trust as lawyers, prosecutors, and judges and, second, to assess the degree to which Germany in the postwar period reformed its legal system, purged the judiciary of former Nazis, and rededicated itself to the rule of law. …
The New East European Constitutional Courts, Herman Schwartz
The New East European Constitutional Courts, Herman Schwartz
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article will describe some aspects of the different tribunals in Russia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, and will compare them with each other and with the U.S. Supreme Court. The first part will begin by explaining a few basic differences between the American and Continental systems of judicial review, and will then describe the functions of the new East European constitutional courts. The second part will use the decisions of the new Russian Constitutional Court to illustrate the new courts' exercise of authority, and will summarize the recent activities of a few other new constitutional courts.