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El Derecho En El Lejano Oriente, Fernando Villaseñor Rodríguez Sep 2004

El Derecho En El Lejano Oriente, Fernando Villaseñor Rodríguez

Fernando Villaseñor Rodríguez

Una brevísima introducción a los elementos más distintivos del Derecho Japonés desde una perspectiva histórica.


Law, Justice, And Power: Between Reason And Will (Stanford University Press), Sinkwan Cheng Dec 2003

Law, Justice, And Power: Between Reason And Will (Stanford University Press), Sinkwan Cheng

Sinkwan Cheng

This is an unprecedented volume that brings together J. Hillis Miller, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and other prominent intellectuals from five countries in seven disciplines to provide fresh perspectives on the new configurations of law, justice, and power in the global age. The work engages and challenges past and present scholarship on current topics in legal studies: globalization, post-colonialism, multiculturalism, ethics, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis. The book is divided into five parts. The first debates issues of (trans-)national justice and human rights in the global age, focusing on military interventions and refugee policies. Part II …


Theater Law, Nancy Schultz, Robert Jarvis Dec 2003

Theater Law, Nancy Schultz, Robert Jarvis

Nancy Schultz

No abstract provided.


Prescriptive Authority: Global Markets As A Challenge To National Regulatory System, David J. Gerber Dec 2003

Prescriptive Authority: Global Markets As A Challenge To National Regulatory System, David J. Gerber

David J. Gerber

No abstract provided.


Courts As Experts In European Merger Law, David J. Gerber Dec 2003

Courts As Experts In European Merger Law, David J. Gerber

David J. Gerber

No abstract provided.


Implementing Competition Law In Asia: Using European And U.S. Experience, David J. Gerber Dec 2003

Implementing Competition Law In Asia: Using European And U.S. Experience, David J. Gerber

David J. Gerber

No abstract provided.


Authority Heuristics, David J. Gerber Dec 2003

Authority Heuristics, David J. Gerber

David J. Gerber

Language plays two roles in acquiring knowledge of foreign law. One is obvious - it provides access to information. Language also performs, however, a second function that is less frequently acknowledged, but no less important: it shapes what we know. This knowledge-shaping (or "cognitive") role conditions all knowledge of foreign law, and it is seldom explored. This article focuses on one aspect of this cognitive role of language. It examines the ways in which assumptions about the authority of legal language shape and often fundamentally distort our knowledge of foreign law and foreign legal systems. My central claim is that …


Constructing Competition Law In China: The Potential Value Of European And U.S. Experience, David J. Gerber Dec 2003

Constructing Competition Law In China: The Potential Value Of European And U.S. Experience, David J. Gerber

David J. Gerber

No abstract provided.