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Comparative Constitutional Law: Casebooks For A Developing Discipline, Donald P. Kommers Apr 1982

Comparative Constitutional Law: Casebooks For A Developing Discipline, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

Comparative constitutional law is a developing area of legal scholarship. One sign of this development is the recent appearance of two casebooks, both published in 1979. Comparative Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials by Mauro Cappelletti and William Cohen, focuses primarily on the procedural rights of defendants from the United States and nine European jurisdictions. Comparative Constitutional Law. Cases and Commentaries by Walter F. Murphy and Joseph Tanenhaus, examines the constitutional interpretation of a large number of substantive issues in six contemporary constitutional democracies. Reviewing the two books together provides an opportunity not only to compare them as teaching tools but …


The Individual Right To Asylum Under Article 3 Of The European Convention On Human Rights, David Scott Nance Jan 1982

The Individual Right To Asylum Under Article 3 Of The European Convention On Human Rights, David Scott Nance

Michigan Journal of International Law

International law does not recognize an individual right to be granted asylum. The emergence of a variant of such a right under the European Convention on Human Rights, albeit under limited conditions, therefore marks a major departure from customary law, a departure particularly noteworthy given that the parties to the Convention represent some of the most advanced legal systems in the world. The recognition of a right to asylum not only establishes a valuable precedent, but also has a direct impact on the status of refugees in Europe. Although no right of entry is provided, aliens already in countries of …


Legal Aspects Of Doing Business With And In Hungary, Lajos Schmidt Jan 1982

Legal Aspects Of Doing Business With And In Hungary, Lajos Schmidt

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

A recent New York Times article describes Hungary as "the Communist world's economic showcase, with plenty of goods in the shops and a fair measure of political liberty." It points out that while Poland is struggling with idle factories and empty stores, Romania has introduced food rationing and Czechoslovakia may do the same, the Soviet Union is buying foreign grain to bridge the winter, and East Germany is feeling the impact of rising energy prices and a widening trade gap, Hungary is prospering. How can a small member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) with little mineral or …


Recent Development, Platte B. Moring, Iii Jan 1982

Recent Development, Platte B. Moring, Iii

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

While few commentators question the international status of the Community in relation to the Member States and those countries with which it has negotiated treaties, the question of whether the Common Market possesses a universally recognizable personality remains open. In determining the international status of the United Nations, the ICJ in the Reparations Case stated that fifty states, "representing the vast majority of the members of the international community, had the power in conformity with international law to bring into being an entity possessing an objective international personality and not only personality recognized by them alone. If this recognition standard …


Book Review. Law In The Balance: Legal Services In The Eighties By Philip A. Thomas (Ed.), Bryant G. Garth Jan 1982

Book Review. Law In The Balance: Legal Services In The Eighties By Philip A. Thomas (Ed.), Bryant G. Garth

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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An American Researcher's Guide To European Communities Law And Legal Literature, Timothy Kearley Dec 1981

An American Researcher's Guide To European Communities Law And Legal Literature, Timothy Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

The article provides American researchers who need information on European Communities' law with a basic reference tool to which they can turn to find out where, how, or whether a piece of information they need can be obtained.