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The Many Lives — And Faces — Of Lex Mercatoria: History As Genealogy In International Business Law, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail
The Many Lives — And Faces — Of Lex Mercatoria: History As Genealogy In International Business Law, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail
Law and Contemporary Problems
It has been claimed that cross-border business transactions are governed by a transnational body of norms specific to international trade, generally known as lex mercatoria, the law merchant. This legal phenomenon is in fact often described as the new lex mercatoria, as distinguished from the ancient law merchant, which purportedly flourished in medieval and early modern Europe. Here, Hatzimihail discusses about lex mercatoria, which has been variously described by its advocates as a set of general principles and customary rules spontaneously referred to or elaborated in the framework of international trade.
Subjects Of Sovereignty: Indigeneity, The Revenue Rule, And Juridics Of Failed Consent, Audra Simpson
Subjects Of Sovereignty: Indigeneity, The Revenue Rule, And Juridics Of Failed Consent, Audra Simpson
Law and Contemporary Problems
Simpson examines the way in which indigeneity and sovereignty have been conflated with savagery, lawlessness, and smuggling in recent history. The national problem of indigenous smuggling is reconstructed here as it was portrayed in the public eye, largely via the media, and then through conflict-of-laws cases concerning the interpretation and application of the revenue rule. Simpson further discusses economic activities that express indigenous cultural and historical practice and that reflect a larger set of socio-economic conditions.
The Transformation Of International Comity, Joel R. Paul
The Transformation Of International Comity, Joel R. Paul
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Tales, Techs And Territories: Private International Law, Globalization, And The Legal Construction Of Borderlessness On The Internet, Andrea Slane
Law and Contemporary Problems
The Internet has often been described as "borderless," owing to the technical features of Internet communications that make content accessible to anyone with a network connection, regardless of his or her location. This borderlessness has been widely thought both to confound legal regimes relying on territoriality and to fundamentally create a crisis for jurisdictional determination of both public- and private-law matters. Here, Slane dissects the images of globalization at work in conflicts cases involving harms caused by postings on the Internet and demonstrates how these images work to produce a coherence for the field of conflicts as well as the …
Cultural Conflicts, Annelise Riles
Cultural Conflicts, Annelise Riles
Law and Contemporary Problems
Riles show how contemporary anthropological insights into the character of cultural difference and cultural fragmentation can reframe conflict-of-laws analysis in productive ways. Taking up the example of the treatment of Native American sovereignty in US courts, she argues that a theory of conflict of laws as a discipline devoted to addressing the problem of cultural conflict is more doctrinally illuminating than the mainstream view of conflict of laws as political conflict. Riles suggests that the general dissatisfaction with conflicts as a field in the United States, and its failure to live up to tits larger promise, may stem in part …
Betwixt And Between Recognition: Migrating Same-Sex Marriages And The Turn Toward The Private, Brenda Cossman
Betwixt And Between Recognition: Migrating Same-Sex Marriages And The Turn Toward The Private, Brenda Cossman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Cossman talks about the battery of arguments at work in doctrinal debates about the recognition of gay and lesbian marriages alongside other images of these migrating marriages in television and film and in wedding announcements in the New York Times. At a most basic level, this cultural analysis reminds people that doctrinal efforts to abstract from the substance of disputes aside, substance and, in particular, cultural and political context continue to matter in ways that are often both crucial and unappreciated in the discipline. Moreover, she shows how the intricate moves of recognition and deference that characterize technical doctrinal maneuvering …
The Interlegality Of Transnational Private Law, Robert Wai
The Interlegality Of Transnational Private Law, Robert Wai
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Afterword, Marianne Constable
Citizenship, Public And Private, Karen Knop
Citizenship, Public And Private, Karen Knop
Law and Contemporary Problems
Knop develops private international law as the private side of citizenship. She shows that although individuals think of citizenship as public, private international law covers some of the same ground. Private international law also harks back to a historical conception of the legal citizen as someone who could sue and be sued, and someone who belonged to a community of shared or common law that was not necessarily a territorial community. She demonstrates that Anglo-Canadian private international law has particular value as private citizenship in a post-9/11 world because its treatment of enemy aliens, illegal immigrants, and members of religious …
The Reach Of Rights: “The Foreign” And “The Private” In Conflict-Of-Laws, State-Action, And Fundamental-Rights Cases With Foreign Elements, Jacco Bomhoff
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Economics Of Law As Choice Of Law, Ralf Michaels
Economics Of Law As Choice Of Law, Ralf Michaels
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Public-Private Distinction In The Conflict Of Laws, William S. Dodge
The Public-Private Distinction In The Conflict Of Laws, William S. Dodge
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
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Custom And Its Revival In Transnational Private Law, J. H. Dalhuisen
Custom And Its Revival In Transnational Private Law, J. H. Dalhuisen
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
No abstract provided.