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There And Back Again, A Smuggler’S Tale: Hawala And Money Laundering In The Greater Philadelphia Area, David Marshall Block Jan 2016

There And Back Again, A Smuggler’S Tale: Hawala And Money Laundering In The Greater Philadelphia Area, David Marshall Block

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This paper seeks to explain the extralegal contractual relations governing Hawala and other related informal financial transfer systems (IFTS). Hawala, and other IFTF’s, have faced a regulatory onslaught in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, as well as competitive pressures from traditional money transfer systems. Despite these competitive pressures, IFTS’s still occupy a major market position in the money transfer market place, in particular amongst Asian and African immigrant communities in the Western world. Two recent academic papers have theorized what governs the extralegal contractual relations of Hawala, but no literature has been developed based on a …


A Curious Motion: The Uncertain Role Of Anti-Slapp Statutes In Federal Courts, Markus A. Brazill Jan 2016

A Curious Motion: The Uncertain Role Of Anti-Slapp Statutes In Federal Courts, Markus A. Brazill

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Presidential Inaction And The Constitutional Basis For Executive Nonenforcement Discretion, Daniel Stepanicich Jan 2016

Presidential Inaction And The Constitutional Basis For Executive Nonenforcement Discretion, Daniel Stepanicich

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