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Melissa Tatum --"Native Americans: Underappreciated, Misrepresented and Job...
Melissa L. Tatum is a Research Professor of Law and the Director of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program at the University of Arizona James E Rogers College of Law, the only University in the...
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Posted New Paper: "Sovereign Investing and Markets-Based Transnational...
I have been considering issues of the ways in which states may now be seeking to develop strategies for governing through markets. My focus has been on the use of sovereign wealth funds for that...
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World Justice Project--Rule of Law Index 2012
WJP Rule of Law Index 2012® Released "The WJP Rule of Law Index® is an innovative quantitative assessment tool designed by the World Justice Project offering a detailed and comprehensive picture of...
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International Conference on the Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in...
The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong organised an marvelous International Conference on “Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in...
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Katherine Pearson on Resident Rights and Responsibilities in Virginia's...
My colleague, Katherine Pearson has been doing great work on issues involving the treatment of the aged. Especially interesting for me has been recent work on the institutional regulation of...
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Announcing New Book: "Lawyers Making Meaning: The Semiotics of Law and Legal...
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new book: Jan M. Broekman and Larry Catá Backer, Lawyers Making Meaning: The Semiotics of Law and Legal Education II ((Dordrecht, Netherlands,...
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Tomonori Teraoka on "Transnational Networks of Poly-Centralized Governance in...
I have been considering the manifestations of the rise of polycentric global governance systems, ones that have challenged the once unquestioned monopoly of the state as the sole legitimate global...
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Michael Komesaroff on China's Long Term Demand for Steel and Its Implications
Michael Komesaroff, principal of Urandaline Investments, a consultancy specializing in China’s capital intensive industries, and a former executive in residence at the School of International Affairs,...
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Jiang Shigong on "Written and Unwritten Constitutions" and Its Relevance to...
Jiang Shigong, Professor and Deputy Director, Peking University Office of Educational Administration at Peking University. He is well known in China for his work, Fazhi yu Zhili: Guojia Zhuanxingzhong...
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Ruminations XLII: Conformity and Forbidden Knowledge--The First Rule of Fight...
A rock falling into a lake appears to affect only the surface of the waters--sending ripples out that affect the water and those things which the water's surface touches. Yet the ripples say nothing...
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Ruminations XLIV: If Reality is not Fixed Can we Train People to Accept...
Reality is supposed to be the state of things as they actually exit rather than as they might appear or be imagined. It presupposes some sort of objective conditions again which behaviors can be...
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Investigation Regulations for the Discipline Inspection Organs of the...
I am considering the nature of intra-Party discipline within the Chinese Communist Party and its relationship to issues of law and state power. See, e.g., -- Communist Party and State Discipline in...
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Ruminations XLV: Re-Thinking Consumption, Shaping Consumer Reality; On the...
In two recent posts I have suggested (1) the importance of belief in the construction of governance (law, moral, ethical, religious, etc.) systems and the subversive power, the evil, of suspicion and...
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New Paper Posted: "Realizing Socio-Economic Rights Under Emerging Global...
I recently posted about the International Conference on “Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Perspectives from China and India” hosted by Centre for Chinese and Comparative...
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Religion, Social Norms, and the State--The 2013 Letter of the Sacerdotes...
Last year, I wrote of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá (Consejo Cubano De Sacerdotes Mayores De Ifá), the practitioners of traditional religion brought over from West...
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Jinghao Lu on Chinese Outbound Investment in Africa
My former student Jinghao Lu has some interesting things ot say about the new wave of Chinese investment in Africa. His most interesting insights are the character of outbound investment (small and...
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MERCOSUR at Middle Age: Welber Barral on Current Challenges
(Pix from UFSC,Welber Barral recebe medalha da Ordem de Rio Branco do presidente Lula nesta quinta, May 6, 2009)Welber Barral is the former Brazilian Secretary of Foreign Trade (2007-2011) under...
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Abolishing Laojiao 劳动教养 in China; is Shuanggui Next?
The Chinese State organs continue the long term project of constructing state institutions with Chinese characteristics that remain true to the founding political ideology of the political order. To...
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The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund
Acting on the earlier recommendation of the Council of Ethics, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance has just announced that the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Government Pension Fund (Global), will...
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