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Reconstructing The Criminal Defenses: The Significance Of Justification, Thomas Morawetz
Reconstructing The Criminal Defenses: The Significance Of Justification, Thomas Morawetz
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The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Law: The Antelope's Penal Law Exception, Mark Weston Janis
The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Law: The Antelope's Penal Law Exception, Mark Weston Janis
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In 1825, Chief Justice Marshall held in The Antelope that (t)he courts of no country execute the penal laws of another. Since then, United States Courts have painstakingly crafted a variety of definitions of the word penal in order to help determine when and when not they should apply foreign laws or execute foreign judgments which conceivably might be characterized as penal. Much of their hairsplitting analysis might have been avoided if American judges and commentators had looked behind Marshall's phrase to see its foundations in law and policy. After reviewing the accepted wisdom about The Antelope's penal law exception, …
To Have And To Hold: The Marital Rape Exemption And The Fourteenth Amendment, Anne Dailey
To Have And To Hold: The Marital Rape Exemption And The Fourteenth Amendment, Anne Dailey
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