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An Outline For The Study Of Ethiopian Constitutional Law, Tsegaye Beru Dec 2014

An Outline For The Study Of Ethiopian Constitutional Law, Tsegaye Beru

Tsegaye Beru

This outline is based on the 1995 Ethiopian Constitution. However, it is important to acknowledge that the 1995 Constitution cannot be studied in isolation. Like its forerunners, the Constitution is not distinctively Ethiopia, save the customary and religious laws that have been recognized by it. Past and present constitutions were derived from various sources, mostly Western. The immediate source of the 1995 Constitution is the Charter of the Transitional Government that took power from the military government. However, the 1995 Constitution was built upon the constitutions and laws that preceded it and the customary and religious laws that predated it. …


Supreme Court Alchemy: Turning Law And Politics Into Mayonnaise, Stephen Feldman Jan 2014

Supreme Court Alchemy: Turning Law And Politics Into Mayonnaise, Stephen Feldman

Stephen M. Feldman

How do law and politics intertwine in Supreme Court adjudication? Traditionally, in law schools and political science departments, scholars refused to mix law and politics. Law professors insisted that legal texts and doctrines controlled Supreme Court decision making, while political scientists maintained that political ideologies dictated the justices' votes. In the late twentieth century, some scholars in both disciplines sought to combine law and politics but still conceived of the two as distinct. They attempted to stir law and politics together, but ended with an oil-and-water type of mix; law and politics settled apart. The best approach, as presented in …


Whose Metadata Is It Anyways? Why Riley V. California Illustrates That The National Security Administration's Bulk Data Collection Is A Fourth Amendment Problem, Jesse S. Weinstein Jan 2014

Whose Metadata Is It Anyways? Why Riley V. California Illustrates That The National Security Administration's Bulk Data Collection Is A Fourth Amendment Problem, Jesse S. Weinstein

Jesse S Weinstein

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Las Normas Preconstituyentes Como Medio De “Idealidad: Los Casos Paradigmáticos De Los Procesos Constituyentes Peruanos De 1979 Y De 1993, Javier André Murillo Chávez Jan 2014

Las Normas Preconstituyentes Como Medio De “Idealidad: Los Casos Paradigmáticos De Los Procesos Constituyentes Peruanos De 1979 Y De 1993, Javier André Murillo Chávez

Javier André Murillo Chávez

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Constitutional Islamization And Human Rights: The Surprising Origin And Spread Of Islamic Supremacy In Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg Jan 2014

Constitutional Islamization And Human Rights: The Surprising Origin And Spread Of Islamic Supremacy In Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg

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