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Conceptions Of The Corporation And The Prospects Of Sustainable Peace, Jeffrey Nesteruk
Conceptions Of The Corporation And The Prospects Of Sustainable Peace, Jeffrey Nesteruk
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article examines the role of corporate law in promoting sustainable peace. The Author argues that corporate legal theory can make a distinctive contribution to a more peaceful world by exposing some deeper roots of corporate law doctrines. Beginning with a brief overview of the corporation in legal discourse, the Article addresses the corporation as property, person, contract, and community. Next, the Article explores the significance of legal language, detailing the ways the law, through language, constructs and impacts the "character," "culture," and "community" of society. The Article then analyzes the dominance that the property and contract conceptions of the …
Book Reviews, Kevin M. Clark Reviewer, Charles A. White, Jr. Lieutenant Colonel
Book Reviews, Kevin M. Clark Reviewer, Charles A. White, Jr. Lieutenant Colonel
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
LEGAL REASONING AND LEGAL THEORY
Philosophers have always questioned the nature of rationality. The history of philosophy appears to many as an ongoing struggle between dogmatism and scepticism, between those who defend the broad scope of reason and those who assert its strict limitation. Concern for the nature of reason has thus become almost synonymous with philosophy. In the past few decades, however, the nature of this concern has changed in a fundamental manner, giving rise to inquiry into the interrelation between different modes of rationality.
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MILITARY OBEDIENCE
Two major characteristics, the concepts of command responsibility and obedience to …