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It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1993

It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz May 1993

Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Procedure As A Guarantee Of Democracy: The Legacy Of The Perestroika Parliament, Frances H. Foster Apr 1993

Procedure As A Guarantee Of Democracy: The Legacy Of The Perestroika Parliament, Frances H. Foster

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In this Article, the author chronicles the rise and fall of the "perestroika parliament." While Gorbachev's reforms were ultimately unsuccessful in producing effective democratic representation, the author believes that the history of these reforms provides some valuable lessons for post-Soviet Russia. Specifically, Professor Foster concludes that current reformers in Russia should learn from the failed perestroika parliament that a democratic, "rule-of-law" state requires uniform lawmaking procedures with constitutional safeguards to guarantee their integrity.

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Customary Practice And The People's Voice: Separation Of Powers And Foreign Affairs, Harold G. Maier Feb 1993

Customary Practice And The People's Voice: Separation Of Powers And Foreign Affairs, Harold G. Maier

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

CONSTITUTIONALISM, DEMOCRACY, AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

By Louis Henkin

New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 125

This short book brings to bear Professor Henkin's vast experience as a teacher and scholar in United States foreign relations law on a contemporary examination of constitutional separation of powers principles in determining the appropriate roles of the three federal governmental branches in the conduct of foreign affairs. In this context, the author asks, "Is our two-hundred year old constitution satisfactory for its third century?" After an excursion through the principal issues most germane to an answer, he concludes that "there is no …

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Dialogue And Judicial Review, Barry Friedman Feb 1993

Dialogue And Judicial Review, Barry Friedman

Michigan Law Review

This article argues that most normative legal scholarship regarding the role of judicial review rests upon a descriptively inaccurate foundation. The goal of this article is to redescribe the landscape of American constitutionalism in a manner vastly different than most normative scholarship. At times this article slips across the line into prescription, but by and large the task is descriptive. The idea is to clear the way so that later normative work can proceed against the backdrop of a far more accurate understanding of the system of American constitutionalism.

This article proceeds in three separate parts. Parts I and II …

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Mishandling The Current Crisis, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993