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The Comparative Nature Of Punishment, Adam Kolber
The Comparative Nature Of Punishment, Adam Kolber
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Is Law - Constitutional Crisis And Existential Anxiety, Alice Ristroph
Is Law - Constitutional Crisis And Existential Anxiety, Alice Ristroph
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The Rule Of Law And The Exemption Strategy, Kent Greenawalt
The Rule Of Law And The Exemption Strategy, Kent Greenawalt
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Do exemptions from ordinary legal requirements for religious individuals and groups contravene the rule of law? If they do only sometimes, rather than always or never, under what circumstances do they do so? This Article explores these intriguing questions, raised powerfully by Marci Hamilton's important and challenging book God vs. the Gavel.
I offer some general observations about the concept of the rule of law, sketch problems posed by religious exemptions, survey various accepted features of our legal order that may seem similarly in tension with the rule of law, and consider in detail the significance of certain kinds of …
Riots And Cover-Ups: Counterproductive Control Of Local Agents In China, Carl F. Minzner
Riots And Cover-Ups: Counterproductive Control Of Local Agents In China, Carl F. Minzner
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Chinese cadre responsibility systems are a core element of Chinese law and governance. These top-down personnel systems set concrete target goals linked to official salaries and career advancement. Judges and courts face annual targets for permissible numbers of mediated, reversed, and closed cases; Communist Party secretaries and government bureaus face similar targets for allowable numbers of protests, traffic accidents, and mine disasters. For many local Chinese officials, these targets have a much more direct impact on their behavior than do formal legal and regulatory norms.
This Article argues that Chinese authorities are dependent on responsibility systems, particularly their use of …