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Why The Right Embraced Rights, Logan E. Sawyer Iii Jan 2016

Why The Right Embraced Rights, Logan E. Sawyer Iii

Scholarly Works

Book review of he Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government by Jefferson Decker (Oxford U. Press 2016).


Restitution Regimes In Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis, Sophia Von Rundstedt Jan 1997

Restitution Regimes In Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis, Sophia Von Rundstedt

LLM Theses and Essays

When the Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed at the end of the last decade, the opposition, which had been united in their goal to defeat Communism, quickly disintegrated into a variety of factions. One of their tasks was to decide on enacting a constitution, in order to stabilize and entrench the new democratic institutions. Apart from establishing the legal framework for democracy, politicians had to develop strategies to convert the state-run economy into a free-market economy. Such a transition required as a first step the privatization of state property. Legal reform of property rights raises the question: …