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Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries In International Law, Makau Wa Mutua
Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries In International Law, Makau Wa Mutua
Book Reviews
This is a review of Jeremy Levitt’s edited collection of chapters in Africa: Mapping the Boundaries of International Law, which is an impressive work to the dearth of scholarship on Africa’s contribution to the normative substance and theory of international law. The book explicitly seeks to counter the racist mythology that Africans were tabula rasa in international law. In his own introduction to the book, Levitt makes it clear that “Africa is a legal marketplace, not a lawless basket case.” The eight contributors to the book are renowned scholars who make the case that Africa is not stuck in pre-history …
The Effect Of Economic Integration With China On The Future Of American Corporate Law, Joseph Vining
The Effect Of Economic Integration With China On The Future Of American Corporate Law, Joseph Vining
Law & Economics Working Papers
China's development into a world economic power and its continuing integration with the United States economy raise the question whether China's own history and the socialist context of its domestic corporate law may affect the meaning of business terms in use both internationally and in American domestic corporate law. Of particular interest is the question whether China's entry and impact may blunt the late-twentieth century effort in the United States to change the legal sense of the purpose of an American business corporation.