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Peace Conferences
Legislation of the Peace Conferences and of the Naval Conference of London Lassa Oppenheim, in the book entitled The Future of International Law, about Legislation of the Peace Conferences and of the Naval Conference of London, wrote in 1921: 8. With the end of the nineteenth and the first […]
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Anti-Corruption
Anti-Corruption Introduction By Anne Peters The 172 ratifications of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which was adopted in 2003, shows that States around the world are – at least verbally – committed to the international fight against corruption… In the 1990s, the United States achieved adoption of a treaty to criminalize foreign bribery, namely…
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Alternative Legal Frameworks
Alternative legal frameworks and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Alternative legal frameworks: There are various options with respect to the protection and recognition of rights of trafficking victims in addition to grants of asylum. A system of temporary or […]
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History of Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Obligation
History of Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Obligation Note: this entry is based on the article, authored by Alain Pellet, “Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes” of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. A corollary of the prohibition of the use of force, the principle that States must settle their international disputes by peaceful means…
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…
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Rent
Real Estate meaning of RentIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Rent: Derived from the Latin reditus, or the Old French rente, 'to render', 'to yield'. A periodic payment or return that a tenant makes to an owner of land, as recompense for a right to use […]
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Bond Issuing
Issuing BondsBond issuers can sell bonds directly through an auction process or use investment banking services. The investment banker buys the bonds from the issuer and then sells them to the public.Corporate bonds are issued by private utilities, transportation companies, industri…
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Business Model
A pattern of business activity in which, over time, the economy reaches a high, declines, enters a low point, and expands upward, reaching a high and repeating the cycle. Within the cycle, four phases can be identified: prosperity, recession, depression, and recovery.While economists gen…
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1000 Top law pages in Wikipedia in may 2013
1000 Most popular law pages in Wikipedia in May 2013 Previous most popular law pages in Wikipedia: 1 to 500 500 Top law pages in Wikipedia in may 2013 250 Top law pages in Wikipedia in may 2013 500 Top law pages in Wikipedia in may 2012 250 Top law pages in Wikipedia in may…
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Stimson’s Law Dictionary
Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…
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Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988
Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…
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Constitutional Text: Argentina 1994
CONSTITUTION OF THE ARGENTINE NATION AUGUST 22ND, 1994 We, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation, gathered in General Constituent Assembly by the will and election of the Provinces which compose it, in fulfillment of pre-existing pacts, in order to form a national union, guarantee justice, secure domestic peace, provide for the common…