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  • Resolutions of Export Control Violations

    Raytheon: Resolution of Export Control Violations in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Raytheon: Resolution of Export Control Violations: On April 30, 2013, the State Department announced the resolution of an enforcement action against Raytheon Company. A […]

  • Poor Laws

    The Legal History of Poor Laws in English Common LawThis section provides an overview of Poor Laws in English Common Law ResourcesSee AlsoLegal Biography Legal Traditions Historical Laws History of Law Further Reading Poor Laws in English Common Law in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of […]

  • Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation

    Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation In the introduction to this legal Dictionary, the author believes that, whatever the “merits of the descriptive vs. prescriptive debate regarding ordinary dictionaries, the task for a specialized legal dictionary is clear. It must be both descriptive and prescriptive. It must be descriptive in order to provide a complete picture of…

  • Intermediaries

    A provision of the Interstate Commerce Act which states that in those cases where a combination of rates among intermediary points along the route would result in a freight charge lower than the through rate, a shipper may use the lower aggregated rate. This rule applies to rail and water carriers, …

  • General Anti Avoidance Rule

    General Anti-avoidance Rule The general anti-avoidance rule (“GAAR”) in the taxation system The GAAR allows Tax Authorities to override the tax consequences that would otherwise apply in a given situation, if those tax consequences are the product of tax avoidance. A General Anti-avoidance Rule can perform a useful role in the tax system, as a…

  • Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co

    Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co. Introduction The Putumayo, which gives its name to the whole region through which it flows?-?a wilderness of tropical forest of which the sovereignty has been long in dispute between the republics of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia?-?obtained an evil notoriety in 1912 after the publication by the British Government of the Blue…

  • Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law

    Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law   A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier’s Institutes of American Law. n. 601. A verbis legis non est…

  • Outline of Evidence

    Note: this entry is based in United States law I. Burdens and Presumptions a. Burden of Proof i. Burden of pleading 1. You have to plead a claim, to state a claim for which relief can be granted ii. Burden of production 1. Must introduce evidence to support your claim in your pleading iii. Burden…

  • International trade law Part 11

    International trade law Part 11   137 Towards a European White Certificates Scheme: Review under Current National Experiences and International trade law Anne De Geeter Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law Volume 25, Number 1, February 2007 p.1 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 138 DROIT DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL ET DE LA CONCURRENCE/ INTERNATIONAL TRADE…

  • International trade law Part 9

    International Trade law Part 9   103 THE WTO AND International trade law AFTER DOHA: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Alejandro Jara Berkeley Journal of International Law Volume 25, Number 3, 2007 p.384 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 104 DROIT DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL ET DE LA CONCURRENCE/ INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND COMPETITION LAW International Business…

  • Trade law Part 30

    Trade law Part 30   313 Harmonization of intellectual property law in Europe: The European Court of Justice’s trade mark case law 2004-2007 M. Leistner Common Market Law Review Volume 45, Number 1, February 2008 p.69 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 314 DROIT DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL ET DE LA CONCURRENCE/ INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND COMPETITION LAW…

  • International Tropical Timber Agreement 4

    International Tropical Timber Agreement   Chapter VIII Relationship with Common fund for Commodities Article 26 Relationship with Common fund for Commodities When the Common Fund becomes operational, the Organization shall take full advantage of the facilities of the Second Account of the Common Fund according to the principles set out in the Agreement establishing the…

  • A Common Law of International Adjudication

    A Common law of International Adjudication Chester Brown (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, liii + 303 pp) The rise of international courts and tribunals in the past few decades has led to a wealth of scholarly studies, the establishment of academic institutions, seminars and publication series. Debates continue over the possibilities, threats and implications thrown…

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession Aleksander Pavkovi? and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main relevant on-going debates on the definition of secession, on its causes, on the normative debate…

  • What Kinds of Entities Can be Legal Right-holders?

    Main source: Campbell, Kenneth, “Legal Rights”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . What Kinds of Entities Can be Legal Right-holders? There has been much dispute amongst philosophers as what to kinds of entities can be right-holders. Corresponding pretty much to the general dispute about the very…