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The Ninth Amendment has had a remarkably robust history, playing a role in almost every significant constitutional debate in American history, including the controversy over the Alien and Sedition Acts, the struggle over slavery, and the constitutionality of the New...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-03-27
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In recent years, innovation has been threatened by the United States legal system. Much of the blame can be attributed to the antitrust and intellectual property laws. Innovation for the 21st Century seeks to reverse this trend, offering ten revolutionary proposals,...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-03-26
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Post-Conflict Peacebuilding comes at a critical time for post-conflict peacebuilding. Its rapid move towards the top of the international political agenda has been accompanied by added scrutiny, as the international community seeks to meet the multi-dimensional...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-03-26
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Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-03-26
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Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life:...
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PublicAffairs
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2009-03-25
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The London Court of Arbitration (LCIA) is one of the world's foremost arbitration institutions, with a growing annual caseload.The LCIA Arbitration Rules are among the most modern and forward-looking of the various sets of institutional arbitration rules but until now...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-19
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The London Court of Arbitration (LCIA) is one of the world's foremost arbitration institutions, with a growing annual caseload.The LCIA Arbitration Rules are among the most modern and forward-looking of the various sets of institutional arbitration rules but until now...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-19
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Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-05
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A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-17
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Corrective and Distributive Justice: From Aristotle to Modern Times retraces the intricate history of the distinction between corrective and distributive justice. This distinction is elaborated in the 5th book of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which was rediscovered in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-17
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The United States and Canada are salt water neighbors on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Despite the general closeness of the political, economic and social relationship, the two States have approached their offshore areas from different perspectives. Canada...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-17
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This book examines the history of the first trust company, the Farmers Loan and Trust, and its influence on the evolution of corporate law, regulation, and taxation.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-16
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Creon's Ghost examines the enduring problem of the relationship between man's law and a "higher" law from the perspective of core humanities texts and through discussion of hotly debated contemporary legal conundrums. Today, such issues as intelligent design in school...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-16
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Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset-protection trust formed in the Cayman Islands, and enter into a same-sex marriage in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-02-09
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This book provides both experienced and inexperienced practitioners, as well as advanced students, with a guide to the strategies associated with researching international commercial arbitration as well as the sources associated with that field of law. Up until very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-05
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Our contemporary era has witnessed the remarkable development of China-ASEAN relations. Both sides have pledged to establish and develop a comprehensive cooperation. However, any development of international relations is governed by international legal principles, norms...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2009-01-30
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