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Foundations Of Rights Jurisprudence In Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy, Pnina Lahav
Foundations Of Rights Jurisprudence In Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy, Pnina Lahav
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"Liberty of the individual is a things of the past, or the future, in Palestine", wrote Bernard Joseph, a distinguished member of Israel's "government in the making" in 1948, shortly before Israel was inaugurated as a sovereign state. Joseph's "present" was the dusk of British rule in Palestine. Draconian Defence (Emergency) Regulations suspended conventional liberties ordinary westerners were accustomed to expect and turned Palestine into a police state.
A Tale Of Two Copyrights: Literary Property In Revolutionary France And America, Jane C. Ginsburg
A Tale Of Two Copyrights: Literary Property In Revolutionary France And America, Jane C. Ginsburg
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The French and U.S. copyright systems are well known as opposites. The product of the French Revolution, French copyright law is said to enshrine the author: exclusive rights flow from one's (preferred) status as a creator. For example, a leading French copyright scholar states that one of the "fundamental ideas" of the revolutionary copyright laws is the principle that "an exclusive right is conferred on authors because their property is the most justified since it flows from their intellectual creation." By contrast, the U.S. Constitution's copyright clause, echoing the English Statute of Anne, makes the public's interest equal, if not …
The Duty Of Directors To Non-Shareholder Constituencies In Control Transactions: A Comparison Of U.S. And U.K. Law, Roberta S. Karmel
The Duty Of Directors To Non-Shareholder Constituencies In Control Transactions: A Comparison Of U.S. And U.K. Law, Roberta S. Karmel
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Judicial Responsibility In Italy: A New Statute, Ugo Mattei
Judicial Responsibility In Italy: A New Statute, Ugo Mattei
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