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Comparative Advantages Of The Supreme People’S Court Judgement(最高人民法院判决的比较优势), Meng Hou Dec 2008

Comparative Advantages Of The Supreme People’S Court Judgement(最高人民法院判决的比较优势), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


El Fallo Ate Y Sus Circunstancias (Elementos Para Su Estudio), Horacio M. Lynch Nov 2008

El Fallo Ate Y Sus Circunstancias (Elementos Para Su Estudio), Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Estudio sobre el histórico fallo de la Corte Suprema sobre la libertad sindical (el fallo ATE).


Legal And Anthropological Research: 30 Years Of Experience In China(法律和人类学研究:中国经验30年), Meng Hou Aug 2008

Legal And Anthropological Research: 30 Years Of Experience In China(法律和人类学研究:中国经验30年), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


Tercer Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García Jun 2008

Tercer Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Tercer Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos

"Autonomía, Reforma Legislativa y Gasto Público"


The Citation Of Civil Judicial Interpretations By The Verdicts(判决书对民事司法解释的引证), Meng Hou Jun 2008

The Citation Of Civil Judicial Interpretations By The Verdicts(判决书对民事司法解释的引证), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


Annual Analysis Report Of Supreme People’S Court (2007)【最高人民法院年度分析报告(2007)】, Meng Hou May 2008

Annual Analysis Report Of Supreme People’S Court (2007)【最高人民法院年度分析报告(2007)】, Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


Sacrifice And Civic Membership: Who Earns Rights, And When?, Julie Novkov May 2008

Sacrifice And Civic Membership: Who Earns Rights, And When?, Julie Novkov

Julie Novkov

This paper considers two moments that scholars generally agree featured advances for African Americans’ citizenship – the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and World War II and its immediate aftermath – and reads these moments through lenses of race and gender. I consider the conjunction of acknowledged sacrifices and contributions to the state, the rights advances achieved, and the gendered and racialized conceptions of citizen service emerging out of both post-war periods. This conjunction suggests that the kind of citizenship that people of color gained during and after wartime crises depended upon gendered and racialized hierarchies that valued …


Acerca De La Responsabilidad Social Y El Desarrollo Económico Del País: Ignorantia Legis Excusat, Ignorantia Facti Non Excusat, Gastón Fernández, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco Apr 2008

Acerca De La Responsabilidad Social Y El Desarrollo Económico Del País: Ignorantia Legis Excusat, Ignorantia Facti Non Excusat, Gastón Fernández, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Gastón Fernández Cruz

No abstract provided.


System Significance Of Law Citation(法律引证的制度意义), Meng Hou Feb 2008

System Significance Of Law Citation(法律引证的制度意义), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


Technical Capacity, Policymaking And Food Standards: An Overview Of Indian Experience, Nupur Chowdhury, Sanjay Kumar Jan 2008

Technical Capacity, Policymaking And Food Standards: An Overview Of Indian Experience, Nupur Chowdhury, Sanjay Kumar

Nupur Chowdhury

The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase their exports of the agricultural and food products. But such objective and desire have often been stymied by the lack of institutions which can sustain the intense technical negotiations at the CODEX. If these participations are not qualitatively satisfactory, the very objective of such participations is not fulfilled. But since …


Popular Constitutionalism And Relaxing The Dead Hand: Can The People Be Trusted?, Todd E. Pettys Jan 2008

Popular Constitutionalism And Relaxing The Dead Hand: Can The People Be Trusted?, Todd E. Pettys

Todd E. Pettys

A growing number of constitutional scholars are urging the nation to rethink its commitment to judicial supremacy. Popular constitutionalists argue that the American people, not the courts, hold the ultimate authority to interpret the Constitution’s many open-ended provisions whose meanings are reasonably contestable. This Article defends popular constitutionalism on two important fronts. First, using originalism as a paradigmatic example of the ways in which courts frequently draw constitutional meaning from sources rooted deep in the past, the Article contends that defenders of judicial supremacy still have not persuasively responded to the familiar dead-hand query: Why should constitutional meanings that prevailed …


"It's Hard Work": Reflections On Conscience And Citizenship In The Catholic Tradition, Amelia J. Uelmen Jan 2008

"It's Hard Work": Reflections On Conscience And Citizenship In The Catholic Tradition, Amelia J. Uelmen

Amelia J Uelmen

No abstract provided.


Law And Morality, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Law And Morality, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Natural Justice And Its Applications In Administrative Law, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Natural Justice And Its Applications In Administrative Law, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Capacity Of The State And Its Subordinates, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Capacity Of The State And Its Subordinates, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Judicial Review, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Judicial Review, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Functioning Of The Law Commission Of India, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Functioning Of The Law Commission Of India, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


J.S Mill On Liberty, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

J.S Mill On Liberty, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Bar Council Of India, Mubashshir Sarshar Jan 2008

Bar Council Of India, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Women At Work: Towards An Inclusive Narrative Of The Rise Of The Regulatory State, Arianne Renan Barzilay Dr. Jan 2008

Women At Work: Towards An Inclusive Narrative Of The Rise Of The Regulatory State, Arianne Renan Barzilay Dr.

Arianne Renan Barzilay Dr. (J.S.D., New York University School of Law)

Abstract: This Article seeks to enrich what we know about the establishment of the regulatory state. It focuses on women’s contribution to the rise of the American regulatory apparatus. By looking at historical sources and archival materials, this Article illustrates how women reformers were central to the development of the regulatory state and how they were guided by an ideology that called for government regulation to provide decent standards of living. Through the example of the establishment of the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor, the Article expands our understanding of the purposes of administrative bodies, and it …


Constituting Vanuatu: Societal, Legal And Local Perspectives, Jackson N. Maogoto, Benedict S Jan 2008

Constituting Vanuatu: Societal, Legal And Local Perspectives, Jackson N. Maogoto, Benedict S

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

Governance in Vanuatu has been a source of concern for Australia as it forms part of Australia’s ‘Arc of Instability.’ Vanuatu has adopted a modified Westminster system as the Westminster system and its constitution are often advocated as the model for constitutions and governance around the world. In various former colonies local populations were expected to simply absorb its liberal democratic principles apparently on some assumption that such principles were an innate part of human nature. Most readings of history would come to a different conclusion. Vanuatu illustrates this error and the complexities of a society that create not only …


On Conceptual Dichotomies And Social Oppression, Gila Stopler, Dana Freibach Heifetz Jan 2008

On Conceptual Dichotomies And Social Oppression, Gila Stopler, Dana Freibach Heifetz

Gila Stopler

This article aims to expose the philosophical and cultural mechanisms, which allow some forms of western religion (in this case mainstream Christianity) to join hands with western capitalism in the oppression of women and of the needy. Focusing on the example of the US, this article claims that both mainstream Christian religion and capitalism perpetuate and entrench discrimination against women and the oppression of the needy through the use of the cultural/philosophical dichotomy between love and justice and its corollary dichotomy between private and public. Against this background, the second part of the article examines several notions of love and …


Racial Formation In Quebec: A Legal Retospective, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker Jan 2008

Racial Formation In Quebec: A Legal Retospective, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker

Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker

This Article shall use the experience of the Quebecois in Canada to survey the linkage between cultural formation and race in Quebecois racial identity, and then map out these linkages and their relations to the political and legal discourse that has emerged in Canada on the place of the Quebecois in the country. Cultural formation and racial formation are unmistakably linked. Specific social and linguistic separatism can over time crystallize into racial formation, especially if aided by official government recognition and legal codification. As this Article shall demonstrate, the verification of this idea can be clearly seen the experience of …


The Right To Die With Dignity: An Argument In Ethics And Law, Raphael Cohen-Almagor Jan 2008

The Right To Die With Dignity: An Argument In Ethics And Law, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

raphael cohen-almagor

We face a dilemma. Suppose there is a person who suffers great pain and wants to die. Those who believe life is intrinsically valuable object to taking life and to taking any action on the person’s desire because the end of life is something granted only to nature, and is not a decision that is incumbent on human beings. However, this objection ignores the autonomy of the agent’s concerns, because she might say: “I would like to die. I would rather die in these circumstances because I don’t feel that I am adding anything just by surviving.” Can life be …


Reclassifying Russian Law: Mechanisms, Outcomes, And Solutions For An Overly Politicized Field, William Partlett Jan 2008

Reclassifying Russian Law: Mechanisms, Outcomes, And Solutions For An Overly Politicized Field, William Partlett

William Partlett

This Article will demonstrate how, throughout the 20th century, American scholarship on Russian law has not progressed as a steady accumulation of facts, but instead has been driven by changing American political anxieties and hopes regarding Russia's political place in the world. Although such politicization might have been excusable when Russia lay closed to the West, it is unacceptable today, as there are now unprecedented opportunities to engage in empirical research on Russian law.


Case Note On Supreme Court Of Cyprus (2007), Toumaian Christodoulidou V. Toumaian (2007) 1 Α.Α.Δ. 1024 [In Greek], Nikitas E. Hatzimihail Jan 2008

Case Note On Supreme Court Of Cyprus (2007), Toumaian Christodoulidou V. Toumaian (2007) 1 Α.Α.Δ. 1024 [In Greek], Nikitas E. Hatzimihail

Nikitas E Hatzimihail

The note makes the statement that the Family Courts of Cyprus have been gradually transformed, from tribunal to court, since their establishment in 1990, by means of the legislative reforms and the evolution of case law in the past two decades. Having been launched as tribunals, in replacement of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over divorce cases of the Greek Orthodox Community, they presently stand as superior courts of limited jurisdiction (courts of justice), with power and specialization over all matters of family law. As a consequence, ratione personae exceptions to their jurisdiction (notably with regard to members of the three acknowledged …


Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder Jan 2008

Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder

Nancy Levit

This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …


John Paul Ii And Employee Participation In Corporate Governance, Michael Lp Lower Jan 2008

John Paul Ii And Employee Participation In Corporate Governance, Michael Lp Lower

Michael LP Lower

Catholic Social Thought ("CST") has called for employees to be active participants in the governance of the enterprises for which they work. This article looks at what CST has to say about employee participation. It shows that John Paul II's distinctive contribution was to lay bare the theological and philosophical justifications for CST's approach to this issue.


Christian Anthropology And The Theory Of The Firm, Michael Lp Lower Jan 2008

Christian Anthropology And The Theory Of The Firm, Michael Lp Lower

Michael LP Lower

Catholic social thought (CST), a branch of moral theology, reflects Christian anthropology (an understanding of human nature that draws on Revelation and natural law theory). CST's understanding of what communities (such as the corporation) are for and how they can best achieve their ends are coloured by its anthropological underpinnings. The same, it is argued, is true for economic theories such as the theories of the firm based on Coase. This paper compares Christian anthropology with the implicit anthropology underpinning some of the dominant economic theories of the firm. Differences at this level go a long way to explaining mismatches …


No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Is There A Need For A Safe Harbor For Aspirational Codes Of Conduct?, Elizabeth F. Brown Jan 2008

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Is There A Need For A Safe Harbor For Aspirational Codes Of Conduct?, Elizabeth F. Brown

Elizabeth F Brown

Over the years, Congress and some state legislatures have enacted laws to encourage corporations to engage in self-policing by providing them with incentives to adopt codes of conduct and compliance programs. In the case of the Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, Congress offered corporations lower penalties if they were found in violation of a federal law but had adopted codes of conduct and compliance programs to try to comply with the law. In the case of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Congress require public corporations to disclose if they had a code of ethic and if not, why not. Congress assumed that the …