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Tax Anti-Avoidance Law In Australia And The United States, Susan C. Morse, Robert Deutsch
Tax Anti-Avoidance Law In Australia And The United States, Susan C. Morse, Robert Deutsch
The International Lawyer
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Military Tribunals And Due Process In Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Bianca C. Isaias
Military Tribunals And Due Process In Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Bianca C. Isaias
The International Lawyer
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The Case Of Colonel Abel, Jeffrey D. Kahn
The Case Of Colonel Abel, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
In June 2010, journalists for the Associated Press reported the arrest of ten Russian spies, all suspected of being “deep-cover” illegal agents in the United States. Seeking to convey the magnitude of this event, the journalists wrote in the first paragraphs of their article that this “blockbuster series of arrests” might even be as significant as the FBI’s “famous capture of Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in 1957 in New York.” Colonel Abel’s story of American justice at a time of acute anxiety about the nation’s security is one that continues to resonate today. The honor, and error, that is contained …
Human Rights And Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency And Trends In The Law Of International Armed Conflict, Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley, Chris Jenks
Human Rights And Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency And Trends In The Law Of International Armed Conflict, Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley, Chris Jenks
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
The past several decades have seen a Copernican shift in the paradigm of armed conflict, which the traditional Law of International Armed Conflict (LOIAC) canon has not fully matched. Standing out in stark relief against the backdrop of relative inactivity in LOIAC, is the surfeit of activity in the field of international human rights law, which has become a dramatic new force in the ancient realm of international law. Human rights law, heretofore not formally part of the traditional juridico-military calculus, has gained ever increasing salience in that calculus. Indeed, human rights law has ramified in such a manner that …
Federalism, Democratization, And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Federalism, Democratization, And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area studies - the author of this 2002 Oxford University Press book explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical …