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The Right Of Public Participation In The Law-Making Process And The Role Of The Legislature In The Promotion Of This Right, Karen Syma Czapanskiy, Rashida Manjoo Oct 2008

The Right Of Public Participation In The Law-Making Process And The Role Of The Legislature In The Promotion Of This Right, Karen Syma Czapanskiy, Rashida Manjoo

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


The Reach Of Rights: “The Foreign” And “The Private” In Conflict-Of-Laws, State-Action, And Fundamental-Rights Cases With Foreign Elements, Jacco Bomhoff Jul 2008

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

No abstract provided.


Involuntary Commitment And Forced Psychiatric Drugging In The Trial Courts: Rights Violations As A Matter Of Course, James B. (Jim) Gottstein Jun 2008

Involuntary Commitment And Forced Psychiatric Drugging In The Trial Courts: Rights Violations As A Matter Of Course, James B. (Jim) Gottstein

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Naturalism In International Adjudication, J. Patrick Kelly Apr 2008

Naturalism In International Adjudication, J. Patrick Kelly

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


The Internationalization Of Public Interest Law, Scott L. Cummings Feb 2008

The Internationalization Of Public Interest Law, Scott L. Cummings

Duke Law Journal

This Article describes and explains the influence of global change on American public interest law over the past quarter-century. It suggests that contemporary public interest lawyers, unlike their civil rights-era predecessors, operate in a professional environment integrated into the global political economy in ways that have profound implications for whom they represent, where they advocate, and what sources of law they invoke. The Article provides a preliminary map of this professional environment by tracing the impact of three defining transnational processes on the development of the modem public interest law system: the increasing magnitude and changing composition of immigration, the …


International Delegation And State Sovereignty, Oona A. Hathaway Jan 2008

International Delegation And State Sovereignty, Oona A. Hathaway

Law and Contemporary Problems

Hathaway rebuts the claim that state sovereignty almost always suffers when states delegate authority to international institutions. Critics of delegation err, she contends, by overemphasizing the costs but losing sight of some of the substantial benefits of cooperation. She considers the challenge to sovereignty posed by international delegation by focusing on recent debates over the influence of international legal commitments on domestic governance.