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The Rule Of Law And Commercial Litigation In Myanmar, Alec Christie Dec 2000

The Rule Of Law And Commercial Litigation In Myanmar, Alec Christie

Washington International Law Journal

After nearly thirty years of self imposed isolation, Myanmar has reemerged as a significant potential destination for foreign investment. One of the key attractions of Myanmar as a destination for foreign investment is its legal system and historical commitment to the rule of law. With ASEAN membership and increasing levels of foreign investment in Myanmar, use of its legal system by foreign investors and their counsel has grown. The aim of this article is to outline, for both investors and legal professionals in other countries throughout the region, Myanmar's legal system and its practical operation in the area of commercial …

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Korean Attitues Towards Law, Chan Jin Kim Dec 2000

Korean Attitues Towards Law, Chan Jin Kim

Washington International Law Journal

Transformation is the key word to explain the Korean attitudes towards law. In the early 1950's, nation building gave impetus to economic growth and allowed Korea to quickly pass through the preliminary stages of development. Industrialization, urbanization and eventual emigration of the populace have, in many senses, displaced the traditional social value system based on Confucianism. However, a new value system has yet to take hold. The lack of such guidelines has left Koreans in a state of confusion in a world that continues to change. The Korean Constitution clearly mandates equal protection under the laws for all Koreans. However, …

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One Country, Three Systems? Judicial Review In Macau After Ng Ka Lling, Judith R. Krebs Dec 2000

One Country, Three Systems? Judicial Review In Macau After Ng Ka Lling, Judith R. Krebs

Washington International Law Journal

The Ng Ka Ling decision by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeals and its reversal by the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, raise serious concerns regarding the adequacy of judicial review and the protection of the rule of law in the new special administrative regions under China's "One Country, Two Systems" approach. Judicial review lies at the forefront of this controversy because it largely delineates the contours of local autonomy and the extent to which those who experience legal violations will have remedies. This Comment explores the roots of the conflict in Hong Kong and examines whether …

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Law On Communications Interception During Criminal Investigations, Yohei Suda Dec 2000

Law On Communications Interception During Criminal Investigations, Yohei Suda

Washington International Law Journal

Whereas organized crime severely damages the peace and health of society, and increasingly it is extremely difficult to clarify the truth in criminal investigations without intercepting the telephone communications or other telecommunications of criminals in serious crimes committed by conspiracy, such as organized murder and unlawful trade of drugs or firearms, the purpose of this law is to set forth the requirements, procedures, and other matters that are relevant to the invasive action of intercepting telecommunications, as provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure (Law No. 131, 1948), and are essential for dealing appropriately with such crimes, in such a …

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The Thirty-Ninth Annual Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures: The Art Of Censorship, Amy Adler Dec 2000

The Thirty-Ninth Annual Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures: The Art Of Censorship, Amy Adler

West Virginia Law Review

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Slouching Toward Barbarism--The Quest To Limit Partial Birth Abortion After Stenberg V. Carhart, Todd Goudy Dec 2000

Slouching Toward Barbarism--The Quest To Limit Partial Birth Abortion After Stenberg V. Carhart, Todd Goudy

West Virginia Law Review

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Ownership Patterns And Corporate Performance, Jinesh Panchali Dec 2000

Ownership Patterns And Corporate Performance, Jinesh Panchali

IIMB Management Review

Corporates have emerged as vital economic institutions for growth, commanding a large proportion of social resources. Hence, they are, like the State, answerable to society for the efficient use of resources. Corporate governance is the social, legal, and economic process through which companies function and are held accountable1 . The structure of corporate ownership has a major impact on the way companies are managed and controlled. An attempt has been made here to explore ownership structure in India and abroad and to empirically analyse corporate performance in the Indian context, at various levels of ownership across ownership categories.

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Reinventing Indian Hospitality, S Seshadri Dec 2000

Reinventing Indian Hospitality, S Seshadri

IIMB Management Review

The hotel industry is hopefully just emerging from a threeyear period of recession. The heyday of the industry was in the years immediately following the opening up of the economy, from 1993-94 onwards. However, we had a couple of unfortunate events at that time, Babri Masjid and then the plague scare. Despite the economic environment turning positive, these other elements are very good examples of the ‘non economic factors’ that can have a serious impact on the hotel industry. So it was really in 94-97 that the industry reached its peak. Foreign investors came in significantly large numbers compared to …

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A Better Harvest, Tushaar Shah Dec 2000

A Better Harvest, Tushaar Shah

IIMB Management Review

In 1972, the prices of fossil fuel suddenly shot up and with it there was enormous escalation in fertiliser prices. People were therefore very pessimistic about the future of agriculture in the country, though the Green Revolution had been hailed only a few years before. So in my talk on Our Agriculture Future in 1973 I said that what we needed was an integrated approach: a farming systems approach looking at our land and water resources. I also spoke about the concept of Sarvodaya Agriculture, which is a high synergy society of farmers, managing and caring for natural resources like …

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Stress And Job Performance: Theory, Research, And Implications For Managerial Practice By Steve M Jex, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998., Prabha Srinivas Dec 2000

Stress And Job Performance: Theory, Research, And Implications For Managerial Practice By Steve M Jex, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998., Prabha Srinivas

IIMB Management Review

This book is a comprehensive study of stress and the effect it has on work life. The style of presentation is simple and therefore even a person not familiar with stress and its related theories can follow the text easily. The topic is extremely relevant and important in the context of the current style of living. Competitiveness in the work place has reached an all time high and has left its mark. To managers, this book offers suggestions on how to recognise stress inducing factors and deal with them. But, as Jex himself says, the study of occupational stress is …

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Rural Credit And Self-Help Groups: Micro-Finance Needs And Concepts In India By K G Karmakar, New Delhi: Sage Publications,1999., M S Sriram Dec 2000

Rural Credit And Self-Help Groups: Micro-Finance Needs And Concepts In India By K G Karmakar, New Delhi: Sage Publications,1999., M S Sriram

IIMB Management Review

Microfinance is the latest buzzword in developmental circles. Inspired by the success of the Grameen Bank experience of Bangladesh and its extensive documentation, there are several experiments being carried out in India as well. Naturally, literature about these experiments follows. Rural Credit and Savings is one sector which has been damaged almost beyond repair by the excessive intervention of the state and therefore people are trying to look at unconventional solutions. In the light of immense action happening in the microfinance sector, Karmakar’s book is not only timely but also an important addition to the existing literature.

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A Scientist’S Tools For Business: Metaphors And Modes Of Thought By Robert L Sproull, London: Universities Press, 1999., Swaminathan Subramaniam Dec 2000

A Scientist’S Tools For Business: Metaphors And Modes Of Thought By Robert L Sproull, London: Universities Press, 1999., Swaminathan Subramaniam

IIMB Management Review

The purpose of this book as stated on the back cover is to ‘illustrate and explain the connection between everyday business problems and the tools and modes of thought of the scientist’. While enough has been written about how business principles can (and must) be applied for successful commercial R&D, there is very little written about how an understanding of common scientific principles can help business-persons.

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The Quality Movement And Organisation Theory By Robert E Cole And W. Richard Scott, New Delhi: Sage, 2000., Vijay G Vancheswar Dec 2000

The Quality Movement And Organisation Theory By Robert E Cole And W. Richard Scott, New Delhi: Sage, 2000., Vijay G Vancheswar

IIMB Management Review

The Quality Movement and Organisation Theory is different from most books on quality on two main counts. Firstly, it successfully addresses the issues of organisational change and emerging management practices, and their impact on Total Quality Management (TQM). Secondly, the concepts and findings detailed in the book combine the strengths of academic research studies on TQM and the vast experience of executives from leading organisations. Though focused primarily on the practices of TQM in the US, the book is exhaustive in its treatment of the subject. Starting with a lucid introduction to the quality movement and its linkages with issues …

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Propaganda And Persuasion By Garth S Jowett And Victoria O’Donnell, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999., M A Venkataramana Dec 2000

Propaganda And Persuasion By Garth S Jowett And Victoria O’Donnell, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999., M A Venkataramana

IIMB Management Review

Propaganda and Persuasion promises to be of interest to anyone who has encountered propaganda of some kind and who would like to know more about the ways in which it could shape the social setting around us. The promise, after all, comes from authors who have been studying communication in depth for over a decade. (Jowett is Professor of Communication at the University of Houston, and Joint Advisory Editor of the Cambridge History of Mass Communication; O’Donnell is Professor of Communication at Montana State University, Bozeman. Both have published widely and are sought-after consultants.)

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Product-Mix Optimiser For An Integrated Steel Plant, Goutam Dutta, Gopal P Singh, P N Roy Dec 2000

Product-Mix Optimiser For An Integrated Steel Plant, Goutam Dutta, Gopal P Singh, P N Roy

IIMB Management Review

Optimal utilisation of constrained resources is one of the most important problems in the area of operations management. The determination of optimal productmix is an extremely difficult task for an organisation producing multiple products in multiple stages, sharing a set of common plant resources and experiencing a fluctuating market over time. In the absence of a quick method to determine optimality under changing conditions, plant managers have to make decisions based on their experience and intuition. 

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Table Of Contents - Issue 2, Chicago-Kent Law Review Dec 2000

Table Of Contents - Issue 2, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Uses Of Aristotle In Garamer's Recovery Of Consultative Reasoning: Sunesis, Sungnômê, Epieikeia, And Sumbouleuesthai, P. Christopher Smith Dec 2000

The Uses Of Aristotle In Garamer's Recovery Of Consultative Reasoning: Sunesis, Sungnômê, Epieikeia, And Sumbouleuesthai, P. Christopher Smith

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Using Hans-Georg Gadamer's exposition of Aristotle's adjuncts to phronêsis, or the knowing that guides deliberation, namely understanding, forbearance, and clemency, this Article attempts to retrieve a communal reasoning still evident in Homer but increasingly covered over beginning with Plato and continuing through Hobbes and Locke, in the English-language tradition, and, more recently, Rawls and Toulmin. This Article shows that, in Gadamer's reading of him, Aristotle emerges as a crucial interruption of this tendency of Western thought to abstract from the communal origins of reasoning and to start instead from what an isolated individual sees for himself or herself and …

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Amatory Jurisprudence And The Querelle Des Lois, Peter Goodrich Dec 2000

Amatory Jurisprudence And The Querelle Des Lois, Peter Goodrich

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Early common law, both Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman, offered plaintiffs a choice between love and law. Lovedays were more frequent than lawdays, and love explicitly took precedence over formal law. The judgment of love took the form of agreement through amity rather than enmity, affect rather than agon or trial. Using the institution of lovedays as a starting point, Goodrich's Article goes on to trace a longer-term continental history of courts and judgments of love that spans over five centuries and plays out in poetry, theater, and literature as much as in any secular legal institution. Offering a synopsis of the …

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Law As Interpretation, Charles W. Collier Dec 2000

Law As Interpretation, Charles W. Collier

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article situates the field of law within the interpretive disciplines and analyzes a number of key legal issues as problems of interpretation. The discussion begins with some historically important interpretive paradigms and methodological metaphors in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Then, within the field of law, a common law narrative, a constitutional narrative, and a community-society paradigm are described and explicated as basic interpretive frameworks of legal decision making.

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Melting Into Air? Downsizing, Job Stability, And The Future Of Work, Sanford M. Jacoby Dec 2000

Melting Into Air? Downsizing, Job Stability, And The Future Of Work, Sanford M. Jacoby

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Contrary to popular belief, career-type employment practices remain the norm in the U.S. labor market, and employers continue to shoulder risks for employees. Evidence to support this claim is drawn from a variety of sources: data on tenure and mobility; analysis of new job creation and job quality; recent employer responses to labor-market tightness; and data on wage premiums, fringe benefits, and training. Yet employees are bearing more risk today, including risk of job loss and of compensation fluctuations. This is an important change from the past. Nevertheless, there are limits—economic, demographic, and political—to the risk-shifting process.

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Farmworkers, Nonimmigration Policy, Involuntary Servitude, And A Look At The Sheepherding Industry, Kimi Jackson Dec 2000

Farmworkers, Nonimmigration Policy, Involuntary Servitude, And A Look At The Sheepherding Industry, Kimi Jackson

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Congress should abolish the nonimmigrant visa for farmworkers because of its inherently abusive and unjust nature. The visa allows abuse of farmworkers to flourish because guest workers, who live in the United States only for a short period of time, have no hope of becoming permanent residents. The workers constantly fear deportation and are unlikely to assert their rights in court. Because guest workers, by nature of their visas, may only work for one employer and the consequence for quitting is deportation, the workers may be forced to endure abusive treatment. Legal coercion prevents agricultural guest workers from leaving their …

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Policing The "Wild West" World Of Internet Pharmacies, Kerry Toth Rost Dec 2000

Policing The "Wild West" World Of Internet Pharmacies, Kerry Toth Rost

Chicago-Kent Law Review

An Internet pharmacy sells medications through its Web site. Legitimate, law-abiding Internet pharmacies benefit modern healthcare in numerous ways; however, some Internet pharmacies conduct illegal and unsafe prescribing and dispensing practices that can endanger the health of the patients the pharmacy serves. Controversy exists over which regulatory body should govern the sale of prescription drugs over the Internet and how Internet pharmacies should be regulated. This Note contends that cooperation of state and federal regulatory agencies and careful updating and utilization of current regulatory avenues can adequately promote the safety of Internet pharmacies. This Note further contends that the dangers …

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So What? The Individual Right To The Ownership Of Firearms Under The Ninth Amendment, Robert E. Bodine Dec 2000

So What? The Individual Right To The Ownership Of Firearms Under The Ninth Amendment, Robert E. Bodine

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Note argues that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution fails to resolve the debate over the existence of a fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms because the Ninth Amendment is in fact the proper source for that right. This Note performs a historical analysis of the creation of the Constitution, reviews the little Supreme Court precedent regarding the right, and then demonstrates how the Supreme Court has applied the Ninth Amendment in cases dealing with other issues. Bodine concludes that applying the Ninth Amendment in that same manner necessarily leads to an inference of a …

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Pages, Volume 8, No. 3, December 2000, Frank Oldfield, Keith Alverson Dec 2000

Pages, Volume 8, No. 3, December 2000, Frank Oldfield, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Ecosystem Processes and Past Human Impacts -- Past Variability and Future Management -- Past Human Impacts -- Historical Ecology -- Program News -- LUCIFS -- LIMPACS -- HITE -- Workshop Reports -- Technical Reports -- Last Page

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Cave Talk, December 2000, Susan Berdeaux Dec 2000

Cave Talk, December 2000, Susan Berdeaux

Cave Talk

Contents: Kartchner 2000 -- Websites -- Holiday Celebrations -- Postage Stamps -- International News -- Publications -- New Members -- Innovations -- Kentucky News -- Tidbits -- Upcoming -- Travel And Tourism

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The Texas Caver, Volume 45, No. 6, November-December 2000, Rebecca Jones, Brian Vauter Dec 2000

The Texas Caver, Volume 45, No. 6, November-December 2000, Rebecca Jones, Brian Vauter

The Texas Caver

Contents: Obituary: Joe Ivy (1965 - 2000) by George Veni -- Caving With Kids Frank Herzig Family Caving by April & Marie Herzig -- Project Reports: Palmito Cave Cleanup, Labor Day by Jan Knox & Aimee Beveridge -- Trip Reports: Mapping Spiller Little Bear Cave by Michael a. Moore -- Pinnacles Cave, Nevada by Rae Nadler-Olenick -- Caving in Paradise, Part II by Troy Shelton -- Cave Safety Carbon Dioxide in Caves by Garry K. Smith -- Accident Report: Joe Ivy: 0-9 Well, Crockett Co., Texas; 30 September, 2000 Edited by Rebecca Jones & Peter Sprouse -- Tribute: Joe Ivy: …

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Uis Bulletin, Volume 46, No. 1/2, 2000, Pavel Bosák Dec 2000

Uis Bulletin, Volume 46, No. 1/2, 2000, Pavel Bosák

UIS Bulletin

Contents: Welcome to the 13th International Congress of Speleology in Brasilia D.F., Brazil, July 2001 -- Errata and Changes -- News from Member-Countries -- New Caving Contacts -- From Commissions and Working Groups -- Fédération Spéléologique de la Communauté Européenne -- World Inventory of Caving Organizations -- The New IGCP Project No. 448 -- Addresses of Web Pages -- Book Reviews -- New Books Available -- Obituaries -- Note of Editor -- Speleological Events in 2001

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Speleo Spiel, No. 322, October-December 2000, Jeff Butt Dec 2000

Speleo Spiel, No. 322, October-December 2000, Jeff Butt

Speleo Spiel

Contents: Editorial -- Club Matters -- Articles/Trip Reports and -- STC Warehouse Sales -- Classifieds

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Volume 20, Number 4, December 2000 Olac Newsletter, Kay G. Johnson, Mary Konkel, Barbara Vaughan, Nancy B. Olson Dec 2000

Volume 20, Number 4, December 2000 Olac Newsletter, Kay G. Johnson, Mary Konkel, Barbara Vaughan, Nancy B. Olson

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2000 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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The Quest To Reprogram Cultural Software: A Hermeneutical Response To Jack Balkin's Theory Of Ideology And Critique, Francis J. Mootz Iii Dec 2000

The Quest To Reprogram Cultural Software: A Hermeneutical Response To Jack Balkin's Theory Of Ideology And Critique, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In his recent book, Cultural Software, Jack Balkin offers a new approach to ideology and critical theory in an effort to overcome the deficiencies he finds in Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical account. This Article demonstrates that the productive aspects of Balkin's theory are central to Gadamer's philosophy, and the unproductive elements in Balkin's theory are best explained by his deviation from Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. Mootz rejects Balkin's transcendental argument in favor of Gadamer's insistence that critique is a feature of hermeneutical experience and that critical theory is the practice of maximizing the critical distance that occurs only within hermeneutical engagements. …

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