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The Territotiality Inquiry Under The Act Of State Doctrine: Continuing The Search For An Appropriate Application Of Situs Of Debt Rules In International Debt Disputes, Ariel Oscar Diaz Jan 2004

The Territotiality Inquiry Under The Act Of State Doctrine: Continuing The Search For An Appropriate Application Of Situs Of Debt Rules In International Debt Disputes, Ariel Oscar Diaz

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Recent economic downturns in Argentina, Uruguay, and Venezuela, to name a few Latin American states among others in various parts of the world, have once again raised serious concerns regarding the ability of international lenders or creditors to recover on the sovereign and private debt instruments that they hold


A Pope, Two Presidents And A Prime Minister, Ivana Shearer Jan 2001

A Pope, Two Presidents And A Prime Minister, Ivana Shearer

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The modem history-the tragic history-of the people of East Timor can be said to have begun in 1493


Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin Jan 1992

Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin

Nova Law Review

The traditional American concept of criminal sentencing is that

prisons exist for rehabilitation and release as much as for incarceration.

1 However, in recent years Congress and state legislatures have

enacted a series of stringent anti-drug laws, which have largely abandoned

the concept of rehabilitating prisoners2 and instead, focused on

keeping inmates locked up for longer periods of time.'


Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years 1789-1888. By David P. Currie, Chicago Il: University Of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. Xii, 504. $40.00, Johnny C. Burris Jan 1986

Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years 1789-1888. By David P. Currie, Chicago Il: University Of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. Xii, 504. $40.00, Johnny C. Burris

Nova Law Review

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age