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Legal Agency Of Small States: Regional Law Cooperation Amid Indo-Pacific Pressures, Tan Hsien-Li
Legal Agency Of Small States: Regional Law Cooperation Amid Indo-Pacific Pressures, Tan Hsien-Li
Michigan Journal of International Law
Discussions about the Indo-Pacific contestation between China and the United States often focus on both superpowers’ geopolitical strategies and economic and military might. The experiences of small and less powerful Indo-Pacific states navigating these tensions are relatively overlooked or even discounted. Yet, they are not passive bystanders in their longstanding neighborhood drama— they often seek strength in unity via their regional organizations and produce regional law to safeguard their collective interests. In short, they exercise legal agency. Using the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (“ASEAN”) experience of regional law cooperation to navigate challenges (including, but not limited to, the U.S.-China …
The Price Of Conflict: War, Taxes, And The Politics Of Fiscal Citizenship, Ajay K. Mehrotra
The Price Of Conflict: War, Taxes, And The Politics Of Fiscal Citizenship, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Michigan Law Review
This Review proceeds in four parts, paralleling the chronological organization of War and Taxes. It focuses mainly on the book's analysis of the leading modern American wars, from the Civil War through the global conflicts of the twentieth century, up to the recent war on terror. Part I contrasts the tax policies of the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War to show how the Lincoln Administration was able to overcome Yankee resistance to wartime tax hikes to wage a war against a Southern Confederacy that resolutely resisted any type of centralized taxation until, of course, it was too late. …
Lawson: A Common Lawyer Looks At The Civil Law, F. S. C. Northrop
Lawson: A Common Lawyer Looks At The Civil Law, F. S. C. Northrop
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Common Lawyer Looks at the Civil Law. By F. H. Lawson.