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  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • Hague Apostille Convention

    The 1961 Hague Apostille Convention Summary The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents brought about a basic simplification of the series of formalities which complicated the utilisation of public documents outside of the countries from which they emanated. The traditional rule acta probant sese ipsa does not…

  • League of Nations History

    League of Nations History The founding of the League of Nations in 1919 marked a radical departure from previous methods of diplomacy. Prior to August 1914, traditional diplomacy, or, as it was often called after the First World War, “Old Diplomacy,” was a system of intercourse between the governments of sovereign states. This system relied…

  • League of Nations Failure

    League of Nations Failure Even before its first meeting, the League of Nations suffered what some historians have characterized as a death blow: the U.S. rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and with it, the League of Nations. A variety of factors led to the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the treaty, among them Woodrow Wilson’s…

  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin in the E-Commerce Law Bitcoin, launched in 2009, was the first decentralized convertible virtual currency and the first cryptocurrency. Bitcoins are mathematical tokens composed of unique strings of numbers and letters that constitute units of the currency and are oftentimes traded […]

  • Antarctica Environment Protection

    Antarctica Environment Protection in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Antarctica Environment Protection: A key priority for the United States in 2013 was the establishment of a new marine protected area (“MPA”) in Antarctica's Ross Sea. See […]

  • Antiterrorism Efforts

    General Concerns Criticism about anti-terrorism legislation and other measures in the United States, Canada and other countries focussed on three main areas: general concerns about the scope and effectiveness of these initiatives, violations of civil liberties, and invasions of […]

  • Antiterrorism Efforts

    General Concerns Criticism about anti-terrorism legislation and other measures in the United States, Canada and other countries focussed on three main areas: general concerns about the scope and effectiveness of these initiatives, violations of civil liberties, and invasions of […]

  • Diplomatic Documents

    Diplomatic Documents Classification of Documents If we classify these documents under the two main heads of public and private deeds, we shall have to place in the former category the legislative, administrative, judicial, diplomatic documents emanating from public authority in public form: laws, constitutions, ordinances, privileges, grants and concessions, proclamations, decrees, judicial records, pleas, treaties;…

  • Polling

    Political Campaign How Campaigns are Conducted Polling Introduction to Polling Surveys of voter opinion provide the raw material of modern political campaigns. Political consultants use this information to run campaigns that closely resemble the efforts of businesses to market produc…

  • Dispensation

    Dispensation Dispensation a term with two main applications: to the action of administering, arranging or dealing out, and to the action of allowing certain things, rules, etc., to be done away with, relaxed. Of these two meanings the first is to be derived from the classical Latin use of dispensare, literally, to weigh out, hence…

  • LegalZoom

    LegalZoom Legal Challanges In the early 1970s, Nolo Press founders Jake Warner and Ed Sherman managed to pierce through some of those pretenses when they published How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which became a best seller. More than four decades later, a Los Angeles based company, LegalZoom.com, is taking legal self-help to…

  • Promulgation

    Promulgation in Constitutional LawFrom the Comparative Constitutions Project: Promulgation is the act of formally proclaiming new legislation to the public. This occurs when the law receives final formal approval.

  • International Arbitration, Historical

    International Arbitration International arbitration is a proceeding in which two nations refer their differences to one or more selected persons, who, after affording to each party an opportunity of being heard, pronounce judgment on the matters at issue. It is understood, unless otherwise expressed, that the judgment shall be in accordance with the law by…