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President Trump and the Paul, Weiss Law Firm Reach a Deal--The Presidential...
Pix credit here There has been much attention paid to what for many is a necessary conflation between the rule of law and the expectations of governmental protection of the discretionary activity of...
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Just Published--Enrique Dussel Peters "Monitor of Chinese OFDI in Latin...
Pix credit here Enrique Dussel Peters has announced the availability of a new publication: MONITOR OF CHINESE OFDI IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 2025 [2025 年中国在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区直接投资报告; Monitor de la...
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The Flaming Sword of Contradiction: President Trump Issues Direction to the...
Pix credit hereGenesis 3:24 speaks about a flaming sword which was entrusted to the cherubim by God to guard the gates of Paradise (or in the Hebrew version and perhaps more accurately to prevent...
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Corporate Governance, The Party's Fundamental Working Style and Socialist...
Pix credit here (Everyone Strives to be a Red Standard Bearer, 1960)) Established in 1994, the China Development Bank is a state-funded and state-owned development finance institution. As an...
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Next on the Block: President Trump Issues an Executive Order -- "Addressing...
Pix Credit here; Poulenc, Dialogues of the Carmelites We have been following the pathways of Presidential action against specified law firms in the United States. See here, here, and here. By...
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The Semiotics of Signal(ing): Using the Signal (the means) of Signal (the...
Pix credit here State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can't read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one...
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Academic Leadership Responds to the President's Directives Against Lawyers:...
Pix credit herePresident Trump has been very busy in the first two months of his 2nd term. Among the President's targets has been law firms whose lawyers he intensely dislikes, and whose engagement in...
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The Proscription List Grows: President Trump Issues Directive--"Addressing...
Pix Credit here Octavian Proscription Letter The proscription list of law firms and lawyers continues to grow--slowly by comparison to the proscription lists of the late Roman Republic and early...
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Whole Process People's Democracy: On the Role of the Deputies to the People's...
Pix Credit here ("Warmly Celebrate Convening of 4th NCP, 1973)The Representative Law is a basic law that regulates and guarantees that deputies to the National People's Congress exercise their powers,...
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Coordinating the Two (Dual) Circulation Economy: General Secretary Xi...
"Pix credit here两点论的客观依据是：一切事物都是矛盾的统一体，都包含有相互矛盾着的两个侧面，都有自己的两点;正是矛盾的两个方面既对立又统一，推动事物发展。[The objective basis of the two-point theory is that all things are a unity of contradictions, contain two...
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Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy: Recent Writing and Research...
For those who are interested in Cuba and Cuban affairs, I am delighted to pass along recent research and writing about both made available through the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy...
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中共中央办公厅国务院办公厅关于健全社会信用体系的意见 [Opinions of the General Office of the CPC Central...
Pix credit here (Leger Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 Chinese Social Credit systems was once a "thing" both in China and in the West. The reporting and reaction was vast, intense, and ultimately...
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CfP--Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial /...
Delighted to pass this CfP along to those interested for the Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital (Onñline Annual Symposium of the Digital Geography...
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Text of Executive Oder (Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to...
Pix credit herePresident Trump issued an Executive Order: Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods...
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The New Order for the Ages? "Trump's Tariffs," Fractured Territories and the...
Pix credit here (Great Seal of the United States) One tends to ignore seals of powerful (and less powerful) places. And yet the way a state names itself can have powerful reverberations on its self...
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And a Report to Bind them All: "Report to the President on the America First...
Pix credit here I have suggested that this administration might best be characterized as a phenomenological merchant presidency ( President Trump and the Paul, Weiss Law Firm Reach a Deal--The...
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Save the Date and CfP: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy 34th...
I am happy to pass along this "save-the-date" and Call for Papers for the next annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) on the board of which I serve. The...
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The Template of Transformation in a Changing Global Ordering From the Elite...
On 3 April 2025, at about the time President Trump was announcing the America First global tariff initiative and adding an important action initiative to what will be the transformation of the global...
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"All right, let’s do it"-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to Press,...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears to be growing into his role in quite interesting ways. He also provides a quite useful window into the thinking of the Trump Administration on issues in which...
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UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Technology and Innovation...
Pic credit HEREThe United Nations apparatus, like those inter-connected with the techno-bureaucracies of other large public and private institutions has a thing or two to say about Artificial...
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Drawing the Discursive Battle Lines--The People Must be Protected From...
Pix credit here When the Administration of President Trump flamboyantly announced its implementation of a new tariffs strategy for broader objectives (to reset the basis and parameters of global...
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Just Published: "(In)Visible Signs of Gender-Based Volence" (Anne Wagner and...
(In)Visible Signs of Gender-Based Violence (Anne Wagner and Angela Condello (eds), the first volume of the law book series is now available online via Springer!The edited volume explores the causes,...
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It's on!: President Trump issues " Amendment to Reciprocal Tariffs and...
Pix credit here This was perhaps inevitable and the necessary prelude either to (secret) deal making and a "cease fire" and both empires reorganize within their newly recognized borders, or the...
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"Hot Damn, It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!"--The Transactional Merchant...
Pix Credit here (Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Movie 2000) In the great excitement about the tariffs agit-prop--a marvelous piece of action theater catalyzing action and reaction--it was only inevitable...
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Betrayal and the State of Administration: President Trump--"Addressing Risks...
Pix credit here Story time:1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump signed a directive removing security clearances held by former Penn lecturer Miles Taylor and all University affiliates on...
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