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Studying China’S International Finance And Policy: A Speech Given At The University Of Richmond School Of Law, William B. Brown
Studying China’S International Finance And Policy: A Speech Given At The University Of Richmond School Of Law, William B. Brown
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
Chinese international finance may sound to many of you like a daunting subject. It really is not, but I have to admit it’s not quite intuitive. International finance is a lot like accounting; you have to learn the rules. And on top of that, in this case we have to add the never intuitive issue of Chinese policy-making. I didn’t learn anything about these topics in graduate school but rather in my first job as a CIA economist, over thirty years ago. At that time China published no economic data; it was just sort of a black hole in the …
Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr.
Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr.
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
Are lawyers strangling our government’s ability to fight the first war of the twenty-first century? Does judicial adventurism and the fear of litigation undermine the War Against Terrorism? In essence, is our national security apparatus overlawyered? This article analyzes how some lawyers have produced a synthetic “litigation culture” over the war on terror. It argues that litigation concerning electronic surveillance, interrogation and all manners of prisoner treatment has chilled counterintelligence since 9/11.