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The Comparative And The Critical Perspective In International Agreements, Ángel Oquendo Apr 1997

The Comparative And The Critical Perspective In International Agreements, Ángel Oquendo

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The Utility Of International Criminal Courts, Mark Weston Janis Jan 1997

The Utility Of International Criminal Courts, Mark Weston Janis

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Commentary: A Law Professor's Suggestions For Estate And Trust Reform, Robert Whitman Jan 1997

Commentary: A Law Professor's Suggestions For Estate And Trust Reform, Robert Whitman

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Who's Afraid Of Functional Claims - Reforming The Patent Law's 112, 6 Jurisprudence, Mark Weston Janis Jan 1997

Who's Afraid Of Functional Claims - Reforming The Patent Law's 112, 6 Jurisprudence, Mark Weston Janis

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Undead Laws: The Use Of Historically Unenforced Criminal Statutes In Non-Criminal Litigation, Hillary Greene Jan 1997

Undead Laws: The Use Of Historically Unenforced Criminal Statutes In Non-Criminal Litigation, Hillary Greene

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Long after criminal laws have lost their vigor in the context for which they were drafted, they may rise again elsewhere. The American legal system has yet to develop a coherent policy delineating when or if historically unenforced penal statutes can be invoked in non-penal contexts. This issue is particularly evident in cases where the relevant laws are caught between shifting moral sentiments. Fornication, for example, remains illegal in many states,' but it is rarely prosecuted. Should one of the participants in this criminal act contract a sexually transmitted disease and sue her partner in tort, however, these disused statutes …


After Pocahontas: Indian Women And The Law, 1830 To 1934, Bethany Berger Jan 1997

After Pocahontas: Indian Women And The Law, 1830 To 1934, Bethany Berger

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The story of Pocahontas, simultaneously celebrated and contained, presents the favored path for Native American women in the newer legal culture: absorption into the Euro-American race and ultimate disappearance of the non-European element. The alternative path was reserved for women whose assimilation did not reach this level of absorption and disappearance but retained their allegiance to both the Indian and white society. Federal and state legislatures and courts marginalized such women, denied them the treaty rights accorded their male companions, and denied them stable marriages, rights of descent, and the power within the family that they had had within Indian …


Children's Rights Vs. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled, Loftus Becker Jan 1997

Children's Rights Vs. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled, Loftus Becker

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The Ethics Of Mediation Evaluation: Some Troublesome Questions And Tentative Proposals, From An Evaluative Lawyer Mediator, James Stark Jan 1997

The Ethics Of Mediation Evaluation: Some Troublesome Questions And Tentative Proposals, From An Evaluative Lawyer Mediator, James Stark

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Russia And The Legality Of Strasbourg Law, Mark Weston Janis Jan 1997

Russia And The Legality Of Strasbourg Law, Mark Weston Janis

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The aim of this essay is to comment on Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and its probable accession to the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the legal theory concerning the nature of obligation in international law and the law-like character of international law. The facts of Russia's accession test a philosophical argument that has been made elsewhere about the nature, efficacy and 'legality' of the legal system of the European Human Rights Convention. An important premise therein is that 'sometimes a happy (or unhappy) confluence of political decisions, social attitudes, and individual actors and …


Remarks In Response To "Telling Alternative Stories: Heterodox Versions Of The Prisoner's Dilemma: The Course Theorem, And Supply- Demand Equilibrium, Robert Birmingham Jan 1997

Remarks In Response To "Telling Alternative Stories: Heterodox Versions Of The Prisoner's Dilemma: The Course Theorem, And Supply- Demand Equilibrium, Robert Birmingham

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Getting Away From The Federal Paradigm: Separation Of Powers In State Courts, Ellen Ash Peters Jan 1997

Getting Away From The Federal Paradigm: Separation Of Powers In State Courts, Ellen Ash Peters

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