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International Integration
Trends in International Political Economy: International IntegrationIntroduction to International IntegrationThe growth of international integration has been equally dramatic, with the most important developments occurring in Europe. The European Union (EU), formed in the 1950s, st…
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Detecting Forgeries
Detecting ForgeriesBy use of special illumination such as ultraviolet black light, infrared photography, and X-ray radiographs, inconsistencies and changes in paintings may be detected. Instrumental analyses may reveal anachronisms in a work of art, and techniques such as carbon-14 dating, …
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Central Banking
Central Banking Role of Central Banking The foremost monetary institution in a market economy is the central bank. These are usually government-owned institutions, but even in countries where they are owned by the nation’s banks (such as the United States and Italy), the responsibility of the central bank is to the national interest. Most central…
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Capital Punishment Development
Capital Punishment Development For most of recorded history, capital punishment was available to every government for especially serious crimes and often for a great variety of less serious offenses. The term felony, which today signifies all serious crime, was the traditional classification in England for crimes punishable by death. Since the 18th century, the long-term…
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Legal RDF
Legal RDF Introduction to Legal RDF Legal-RDF was a non-profit organization that was sponsored by software companies and by John McClure, main creator of Legal RDF ontology. It was one of the most significant non-institutional initiatives in the field of legal standardization Legal-RDF was structured so that events relate to the state of a resource.…
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Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute)
Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation Classification VR1 General VR 1.1 Comprehensive Studies VR 1.2 Surveys of State Practice VR 1.3 Surveys of Judicial Decisions VR 1.4 Surveys of Literature VR 1.5 Institutes, Societies VR 1.5.1 Institut de Droit International (before 1996 see 1.5.3) VR 1.5.2 International Law Association (before 1996 see 1.5.3)…
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International law index
International law index Here is the list of almost 2.000 items of the international law index of the Wiki Encyclopedia of Law. AAPL v Sri Lanka Case Abduction, Transboundary Aboriginal Title Abu Dhabi Oil Arbitration Abuse of Rights Access to Justice in Environmental Matters Accessions to the WTO Accountability Accretion Achille Lauro Affair (1985) Acquiescence…
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Top 25.000 English words
Which are the top 25.000 most popular English words? According to a review from Lawi, these are the 25.000 most popular English words, in order: you the i to a and it of that in is me what this for my on your we have do no don’t are be i’m not was he it’s…
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Legal Education future
“THE FUTURE OF LEGAL Education “, by John Mayer(1) “All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilised life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made regularity in the economy…in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals…
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Florida Agency Databases
Florida State Agency Databases This is an annotated list of databases produced by Florida State Agencies listed by producing agency. To add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, either do it yourself as this is a wiki, editable by anybody or send an e-mail to Rich Gause – rgause@mail.ucf.edu .…
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Digital Borders
Digital Borders In the 1990s, many (…) scholars believed that the Internet was eroding the authority of governments. The web’s salient features—instant and universal communication, geographical anonymity, and decentralized routing—made it easy for computer users inside a nation to get illegal information from computers outside the nation. American college students could download copyrighted songs from…