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Systems Of Belief In Modern American Law: A View From Century's End, Gerald B. Wetlaufer
Systems Of Belief In Modern American Law: A View From Century's End, Gerald B. Wetlaufer
American University Law Review
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Law's Territory (A History Of Jurisdiction), Richard T. Ford
Law's Territory (A History Of Jurisdiction), Richard T. Ford
Michigan Law Review
Pop quiz: New York City. The United Kingdom. The East Bay Area Municipal Utilities District. Kwazulu, South Africa. The Cathedral of Notre Dame. The State of California. Vatican City. Switzerland. The American Embassy in the U.S.S.R. What do the foregoing items have in common? Answer: they are, or were, all territorial jurisdictions. A thesis of this Article is that territorial jurisdictions - the rigidly mapped territories within which formally defined legal powers are exercised by formally organized governmental institutions - are relatively new and intuitively surprising technological developments. New, because until the development of modern cartography, legal authority generally followed …