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Invited Speaker At The Yale Law School Reception To Recognize The Gift Of The Juvenile Jurisprudence Collection To The Yale Law Library, Sharon O'Connor Dec 2009

Invited Speaker At The Yale Law School Reception To Recognize The Gift Of The Juvenile Jurisprudence Collection To The Yale Law Library, Sharon O'Connor

Sharon Hamby O'Connor

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Speaker, “Taking Choice-Of-Law Provisions Seriously: What Religious Legal Theory Has To Tell Us About The Enforceability Of Religious Arbitration Awards”, Michael Helfand Nov 2009

Speaker, “Taking Choice-Of-Law Provisions Seriously: What Religious Legal Theory Has To Tell Us About The Enforceability Of Religious Arbitration Awards”, Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

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Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health, And Public Opinion, 1607-1972, John Capper, Garrett Power, Frank Shivers Sep 2009

Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health, And Public Opinion, 1607-1972, John Capper, Garrett Power, Frank Shivers

Garrett Power

Preface The Chesapeake Bay is the most studied and best understood estuary in the United States. Yet, it is practically unexamined in the areas of the social sciences and the humanities. While millions of dollars have been spent on producing the thousands of studies that examine the physical, biological, chemical, and engineering aspects of the Bay, little attention has been given to understanding the political, cultural, and economic character of Bay governance. The relationship of the governments of Maryland and Virginia to the Bay is imperfectly documented. Government documents which do exist are scattered in various libraries in both states …


On Realism's Own 'Hangover' Of Natural Law Philosophy: Llewellyn Avec Dooyeweerd, David Caudill Dec 2008

On Realism's Own 'Hangover' Of Natural Law Philosophy: Llewellyn Avec Dooyeweerd, David Caudill

David S Caudill

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Globalized World And Separation Of Powers: A New Role For The Independent Administrative Authorities, Antonio Lordi Dec 2008

Globalized World And Separation Of Powers: A New Role For The Independent Administrative Authorities, Antonio Lordi

antonio lordi

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Invisible Ink In The Eighth Arrondissement, Karl T. Muth Dec 2008

Invisible Ink In The Eighth Arrondissement, Karl T. Muth

Karl T Muth

IMPORTANT: This document may prompt you for a username and password. If this occurs, please simply click "cancel" and the document will load. Thank you. This Article deals with the history of the secret contract that governs the distribution of economic rents enjoyed by Formula One. It further explores the environment in which this secret contract evolved and briefly discusses applications for secret contracts in other scenarios and industries.


The Appropriations Power And Sovereign Immunity, Paul F. Figley, Jay Tidmarsh Dec 2008

The Appropriations Power And Sovereign Immunity, Paul F. Figley, Jay Tidmarsh

Paul Figley

Discussions of sovereign immunity assume that the Constitution contains no explicit text regarding sovereign immunity. As a result, arguments about the existence—or nonexistence—of sovereign im- munity begin with the English and American common-law doctrines. Exploring political, fiscal, and legal developments in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eight- eenth centuries, this Article shows that focusing on common-law developments is misguided. The common-law approach to sovereign immunity ended in the early 1700s. The Bankers’ Case (1690– 1700), which is often regarded as the first modern common-law treatment of sovereign immunity, is in fact the last in the line …