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Borrowing American Ideas To Improve Chinese Tort Law, Yongxia Wang
Borrowing American Ideas To Improve Chinese Tort Law, Yongxia Wang
St. Mary's Law Journal
As China develops its modern jurisprudence it faces a choice between emulating the legal frameworks of civil law countries or common law countries. Thus far, the civil law path has allowed for a rapid expansion of Chinese tort law, but jurists have found difficulty in applying such generalized statutory schemes with the absence of supporting judicial interpretation. Cognizant of the differences between the public policy of common law countries and China, Vincent Johnson’s Mastering Torts (Měiguó Qīnquán Fǎ) provides this guidance through the lens of American tort law. The hornbook takes care to simplify the role of judicial …
Who Are You Calling Irrational?, Aneil Kovvali
Who Are You Calling Irrational?, Aneil Kovvali
Northwestern University Law Review
Nudges are interventions that encourage people to make particular choices by shaping the context in which the choices are made. These interventions can have major impacts because of quirks in the way that human beings process information. Cass Sunstein places nudges at the core of a regulatory philosophy of “libertarian paternalism,” which suggests that while the government should generally preserve the freedom of citizens to make their own choices, it should also intervene to improve on the choices it deems self-destructive. In Why Nudge?, Sunstein defends libertarian paternalism against John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle, which holds that the government …
Confounding Ockham's Razor: Minilateralism And International Economic Regulation, Eric C. Chaffee
Confounding Ockham's Razor: Minilateralism And International Economic Regulation, Eric C. Chaffee
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
In Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law, and Financial Engineering Are Redefining Economic Statecraft, Professor Chris Brummer embraces the complexity of the global economic system and its regulation by exploring the emerging role and dominance of varying strands of economic collaboration and regulation that he collectively refers to as “minilateralism.” In describing the turn toward minilateralism, Brummer notes a number of key features of this new minilateral system, including a shift away from global cooperation to strategic alliances composed of the smallest group necessary to achieve a particular goal, a turn from formal treaties to informal non-binding accords and other …
Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other (A Review Of Christian Perspectives On Legal Thought, Edited By Michael W. Mcconnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., And Angela Carmella, William Brewmaker
Oklahoma Law Review
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Anarchy, State, And Utopia, Alan R. Mabe
Anarchy, State, And Utopia, Alan R. Mabe
Florida State University Law Review
By Robert Nozick. 1 New York, New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1974. Pp. xvi, 367. $12.95.
Education For Professional Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Education For Professional Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of EDUCATION FOR PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press.
White: The Federalists, Michigan Law Review
White: The Federalists, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE FEDERALISTS. By Leonard D. White.