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Limits Of The Rule Of Law: Negotiating Afghan “Traditional” Law In The International Civil Trials In The Czech Republic, Tomas Ledvinka, James M. Donovan 2021 Charles University, Prague

Limits Of The Rule Of Law: Negotiating Afghan “Traditional” Law In The International Civil Trials In The Czech Republic, Tomas Ledvinka, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Drawing on ethnographic research of judicial cases in the Czech Republic which involve the law in migrants' countries of origin, this Article outlines how multiple strategies handle encounters with the legal-cultural differences of Afghanistan in order to neutralize what may be called the “alterity” of law. The Article suggests that far from being analytical tools, concepts such as “context,” “culture,” and “customary” are strategically used by courts to neutralize unsettling aspects of foreign Afghan legalities. Further, it applies Leopold Pospíšil´s ethnological concept of legal authority as a vehicle for reinterpreting the contextual differentiation of Afghan “traditional” law as an alternative …


The Pearl Of Siberia: The Emerging Threat To Lake Baikal, Blake Donithan 2021 University of Kentucky

The Pearl Of Siberia: The Emerging Threat To Lake Baikal, Blake Donithan

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? An Attempt To Cure Due Process Paranoia, Louis Yi Hang LAU 2021 Singapore Management University

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? An Attempt To Cure Due Process Paranoia, Louis Yi Hang Lau

Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon)

Time, cost and quality. These are the qualities that an efficient arbitration must have. In recent times, however, the arbitral process has struggled to maintain this balance, with the efficiency of the arbitral process rated among the top five worst characteristics of international arbitration. The fact that parties may resort to a curial review of arbitral awards in an annulment or refusal of enforcement action merely adds on to this delay.


Shareholder Inspection Rights In China: An Empirical Inquiry, Robin Hui Huang 2021 UC Law SF

Shareholder Inspection Rights In China: An Empirical Inquiry, Robin Hui Huang

UC Law SF International Law Review

Drawing upon overseas experiences, notably the U.S., China introduced the legal regime for shareholder inspection rights in its first national company law and over the years, has gradually developed more detailed rules and made amendments intended to better suit the local conditions. Apart from written law, this paper also conducts an empirical study of how the law has been applied in practice, by examining relevant cases adjudicated from 2012 to 2017. The empirical findings show that China’s shareholder inspection rights have some distinctive features, and there are similarities and differences between China and the U.S. (as represented by Delaware). Despite …


Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi 2021 Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”

Contract Law In The Agri-Food Supply Chain, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Protecting Culturally Identifiable Fashion: What Role For Gis?, J. Janewa Osei-Tutu 2021 FIU College of Law

Protecting Culturally Identifiable Fashion: What Role For Gis?, J. Janewa Osei-Tutu

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Can Investment Dispute Settlement Ever Be Depoliticized?, Fernando Dias Simões 2021 Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Can Investment Dispute Settlement Ever Be Depoliticized?, Fernando Dias Simões

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

Investor-state arbitration was created with the hope of depoliticizing investment disputes. However, the adoption of the traditional party-appointment system, in which disputing parties play a direct role in the composition of the tribunal, is increasingly criticized. Many believe that party appointment is a tool ofpolitical influence over the arbitrators' interpretative space. Suggestions for reform of the system have proliferated. The most radical proposal currently on the table-the creation of a permanent investment court-would cause a paradigm shift in the selection of adjudicators, moving from a disputing party framework, to a treaty party context. This article analyzes different options to reduce …


Is There A New Extraterritoriality In Intellectual Property?, Timothy R. Holbrook 2021 Emory University School of Law

Is There A New Extraterritoriality In Intellectual Property?, Timothy R. Holbrook

Faculty Articles

This Article proceeds as follows. Part I discusses the state of the law of extraterritoriality in copyright, trademark, and patent, as it stood before the Supreme Court’s recent intervention. This review demonstrates that all three disciplines were treating extraterritoriality very differently, and none were paying much attention to the presumption against extraterritoriality. Part II reviews a tetralogy of recent Supreme Court cases, describing the Court’s attempt to formalize its approach to extraterritoriality across all fields of law. Part III analyzes the state of IP law in the aftermath of this tetralogy of extraterritoriality cases. It concludes that there has been …


The Hidden Gender Of Gender-Neutral Paid Parental Leave: Examining Recently-Enacted Law In The United States And Australia, Deborah A. Widiss 2021 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

The Hidden Gender Of Gender-Neutral Paid Parental Leave: Examining Recently-Enacted Law In The United States And Australia, Deborah A. Widiss

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The United States and Australia are unusual in their approach to providing paid time off to new parents. Virtually every other country in the world provides maternity leaves that are far longer than paternity leaves, even if they also provide supplemental parental leave available to either parent. Recently-enacted laws in the United States and Australia, by contrast, eschew sex-specific classifications entirely. But, while both adopt gender-neutral approaches, they are structured quite differently. American laws provide each parent equal and non-transferable benefits; Australian law provides an extended period of benefits to a “primary” caregiver, and a much shorter period of benefits …


The Carbon Price Equivalent: A Metric For Comparing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Across Jurisdictions, Gabriel Weil 2021 Climate Leadership Council & Georgetown University Law Center

The Carbon Price Equivalent: A Metric For Comparing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Across Jurisdictions, Gabriel Weil

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Climate change presents a global commons problem: Emissions reductions on the scale needed to meet global targets do not pass a domestic cost-benefit test in most countries. To give national governments ample incentive to pursue deep decarbonization, mutual interstate coercion will be necessary. Many proposed tools of coercive climate diplomacy would require a onedimensional metric for comparing the stringency of climate change mitigation policy packages across jurisdictions. This article proposes and defends such a metric: the carbon price equivalent. There is substantial variation in the set of climate change mitigation policy instruments implemented by different countries. Nonetheless, the consequences of …


Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review 2021 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents


Bargaining Justice: Negotiating Law In An Indian Bazaar, Andy Rotman 2021 Seattle University School of Law

Bargaining Justice: Negotiating Law In An Indian Bazaar, Andy Rotman

Seattle University Law Review

This Symposium Article details the bazaars in the city of Banaras and explains why it is an especially good test case for considering the topic at hand: Corporate Capitalism and the City of God. The article explores how Banaras challenges normative views of “corporate capitalism,” both in terms of how it is practiced in the city and the rules that govern it. It further focuses on the legal system that is mobilized to guide commercial exchange and daily life in the bazaars of Banaras, this legal system’s relationship to the city’s courts and police, and the relationship between these two …


Legal Translation In A Political Context: The Trick Of Choosing Between Alternatives In Translating Electoral Terms, Zakia Deeb 2021 Aga Khan University

Legal Translation In A Political Context: The Trick Of Choosing Between Alternatives In Translating Electoral Terms, Zakia Deeb

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

Legal electoral terminology is a specialist subject within the broader legal language discourse. When translating into Arabic, even basic electoral terms can be translated differently in different Arab countries for various reasons due to different sources of inspiration. Most legal electoral terms have a variety of alternative equivalents within the relevant linguistic field or semi-legal domain. This paper discusses such alternatives while presenting problems related to the existing resources in the field. Data collected from the 2012 election of members of the Libyan General National Congress are analysed to test the consistency in selecting from these alternatives. Furthermore, material presented …


A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Concept Of Territorial Sovereignty: A New Analytical Framework Of The Territorial Disputes In The China Seas, Henan Hu 2021 School of Law, South China University of Technology

A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Concept Of Territorial Sovereignty: A New Analytical Framework Of The Territorial Disputes In The China Seas, Henan Hu

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

Existing normative legal efforts that focus on territorial acquisition, appear inadequate in providing a uniform and final answer to the issue of territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. China's historical claims are a unique and difficult issue therein. This article returns legal attention to the central concept of territorial sovereignty within territorial disputes by engaging in a philosophical inquiry to examine if the concept could be more fully understood and to ask to what extent do historical claims relate to the concept of territorial sovereignty and international law. This article argues that a definite answer to these …


Masthead - Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 5 (2021-22), 2021 Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law

Masthead - Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 5 (2021-22)

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.


It’S All About The Pasta: Protectionism, Liberalization, And The Challenge For Quality And Sustainability Of Made In Italy, Fernanda G. Nicola, Gino Scaccia 2021 American University Washington College of Law

It’S All About The Pasta: Protectionism, Liberalization, And The Challenge For Quality And Sustainability Of Made In Italy, Fernanda G. Nicola, Gino Scaccia

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gangmastering Passata: Multi-Territoriality Of The Food System And The Legal Construction Of Cheap Labor Behind The Globalized Italian Tomato, Dr. Tomaso Ferrando 2021 University of Antwerp

Gangmastering Passata: Multi-Territoriality Of The Food System And The Legal Construction Of Cheap Labor Behind The Globalized Italian Tomato, Dr. Tomaso Ferrando

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Like Oil Floating On Water: Italy’S Olive Crisis And The Politics Of Backlash Against Transnational Legal Orders, Tommaso Pavone 2021 University of Oslo

Like Oil Floating On Water: Italy’S Olive Crisis And The Politics Of Backlash Against Transnational Legal Orders, Tommaso Pavone

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Amnesties, Dr. Alhagi B.M. Marong 2021 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

The Legal Legacy Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone: Amnesties, Dr. Alhagi B.M. Marong

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Narratives Of Quality In European Food Governance And Beyond, Lorenzo Bairati 2021 Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo

Narratives Of Quality In European Food Governance And Beyond, Lorenzo Bairati

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


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