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Izvestiia As A Mirror Of Russian Legal Reform, Frances H. Foster
Izvestiia As A Mirror Of Russian Legal Reform, Frances H. Foster
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In this Article, Professor Foster explores the breakdown of legal authority in post-Soviet Russia by examining the experience of the Russian newspaper Izvestiia. The author recounts the power struggles between the Russian president and the parliament, each seeking to exercise sole control over the destiny of Izvestiia and of post-Soviet Russia. Professor Foster argues that Izvestiia's battle for survival is merely symptomatic of the overall structural, procedural, and attitudinal obstacles to Russian legal reform in the post-Soviet era. The author concludes that the key to successful establishment of a stable, democratic, law-based state is a fundamental reconstitution of Russian legal …
Theories Of Poetry, Theories Of Law, Lawrence Joseph
Theories Of Poetry, Theories Of Law, Lawrence Joseph
Vanderbilt Law Review
I write poetry." Also, since 1976, when I was admitted to practice before a state bar, I have served as a law clerk for a justice of a state supreme court, practiced, and mostly taught law. About the time that I began law school, while I was writing poems that would appear in my first book, an extraordinary change in jurisprudence began to occur, one which focused on legal language as something more than a medium for conveying singular meaning. This legal theory has become as important as any since legal realism. Because I also have written essays and re- …
Where Were The Lawyers? A Behavioral Inquiry Into Lawyers' Responsibility For Clients' Fraud, Donald C. Langevoort
Where Were The Lawyers? A Behavioral Inquiry Into Lawyers' Responsibility For Clients' Fraud, Donald C. Langevoort
Vanderbilt Law Review
Where were the lawyers? Perhaps rhetorical, even sarcastic, this question is being asked all too frequently after large financial frauds. "[W]ith all the professional talent involved," mused Judge Sporkin in a decision growing out of the Lincoln Savings & Loan scandal, "why [didn't] at least one... [blow] the whistle to stop the overreaching that took place in this case[?]" The Lincoln matter alone ensnared a number of the country's most prominent law firms," and many others have been blamed in comparable, if less notorious, banking delicts. Clark Clifford's indictment in the BCCI proceeding has extended the dark shadow even further …