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Custom As A Source Of Law: Argentinean And Comparative Legal Systems, German Savastano Jan 2009

Custom As A Source Of Law: Argentinean And Comparative Legal Systems, German Savastano

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The purpose of this article is to reflect on custom as a source of law in the Argentinean and comparative legal systems.


Cicero's Beloved Republic: The Insufficiency Of Expanded Humanistic Rhetoric In The Service Of Comparative Law, Richard O. Brooks Jan 2009

Cicero's Beloved Republic: The Insufficiency Of Expanded Humanistic Rhetoric In The Service Of Comparative Law, Richard O. Brooks

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

We are now at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The United States, like Republican Rome two millennia earlier, teeters between becoming an expanded empire, a declining republic, or paradoxically, both.


Universal Jurisdiction And The Case Of Belgium: A Critucal Assessment, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker Jan 2009

Universal Jurisdiction And The Case Of Belgium: A Critucal Assessment, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Praised in some quarters as a useful tool for bringing criminal perpetrators to justice, criticized by others as a threat to state sovereignty, universal jurisdiction has certainly emerged as a heated topic within international criminal law.