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Law Reform In The Emerging Nations Of Sub-Saharan Afica: Social Change And The Development Of The Modern Legal System, Robert A. Sedler Jan 1968

Law Reform In The Emerging Nations Of Sub-Saharan Afica: Social Change And The Development Of The Modern Legal System, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Validity Of Sales Contracts: A Comparative Study, Whitmore Gray Jan 1968

Review Of The Validity Of Sales Contracts: A Comparative Study, Whitmore Gray

Reviews

These 2 volumes are a slightly revised version of the substantive reports prepared by the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg (Director: Professor Konrad Zweigert) for the Rome Institute for the Unification of Private Law. They were designed to serve as a basis for the elaboration and discussion of a new uniform law on this subject matter, which would supplement the 1964 Hague conventions on a Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods and Uniform Law on the Formation of Contract for the International Sale of Goods.


Book Review. The Criminal Process In The People's Republic Of China, 1949-1963 By Jerome A. Cohen, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1968

Book Review. The Criminal Process In The People's Republic Of China, 1949-1963 By Jerome A. Cohen, Robert L. Birmingham

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Law In The Soviet Society (Wayne R. Lafave, Ed.), Jurij Fedynskyj Jan 1968

Book Review. Law In The Soviet Society (Wayne R. Lafave, Ed.), Jurij Fedynskyj

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Law In Imperial China: Exemplified By 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases By Derk Bodde And Clarence Morris, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1968

Book Review. Law In Imperial China: Exemplified By 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases By Derk Bodde And Clarence Morris, Robert L. Birmingham

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Security And Economy In Land Transactions: Some Suggestions From Scotland And England, Ted J. Fiflis Jan 1968

Security And Economy In Land Transactions: Some Suggestions From Scotland And England, Ted J. Fiflis

Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Independent Africa: The Challenge To The Legal Profession By L.C.B. Gower, William Burnett Harvey Jan 1968

Book Review. Independent Africa: The Challenge To The Legal Profession By L.C.B. Gower, William Burnett Harvey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Report On The Military Rule And The Greek Universities, A. A. Fatouros Jan 1968

Report On The Military Rule And The Greek Universities, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Team Work Planning Of A Comparative Law Research Project, Wencelas J. Wagner Jan 1968

Team Work Planning Of A Comparative Law Research Project, Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Presumption Of Innocence In The Soviet Union, George P. Fletcher Jan 1968

The Presumption Of Innocence In The Soviet Union, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

The presumption of innocence is a curious item in the baggage of Western legal rhetoric. Revered today here and abroad, it has become a standard clause in international testimonials to the rights of man. Yet, at first blush, it seems conceptually anomalous and irrelevant in practice. It is hardly a presumption of fact – a distillation of common experience; statistics betray the suggestion that men indicted on criminal charges are likely to be innocent. Nor is it a legal rule masquerading as an irrebuttable presumption; it is rebuttable by proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt. Further, it …


On Interpreting The Ethiopian Penal Code, Peter L. Strauss Jan 1968

On Interpreting The Ethiopian Penal Code, Peter L. Strauss

Faculty Scholarship

The aim of this article is to set out and discuss some general principles of interpreting the Ethiopian Penal Code – that is to say, of using it. Even now, ten years after it came into effect, many people have difficulty in understanding and using the Penal Code in a straightforward way. It seems complex, and many of its fundamental conceptions are unfamiliar to Ethiopian lawyers. This article, discussing at length how the code is built, may help reduce its apparent complexity and thus facilitate its day-to-day application.