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Footnotes
Footnotes This article examines the history and nature of footnotes and other annotational devices used in legal and other literature, particularly law reviews. The topic has received considerable attention in United States university law journals, which are heavily drawn on. The article starts by considering the nature of the glossing process and identifying different sorts…
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Footnotes
Footnotes This article examines the history and nature of footnotes and other annotational devices used in legal and other literature, particularly law reviews. The topic has received considerable attention in United States university law journals, which are heavily drawn on. The article starts by considering the nature of the glossing process and identifying different sorts…
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Questions Part 2
Questions Law as the Answer to a Question By Francis Bennion: In Part One of this article I suggested that we could make sense of the proposition that a particular law is the answer to a question by constructing a factual outline which would trigger the thrust of that law. How far are we from…
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Questions Part 2
Questions Law as the Answer to a Question By Francis Bennion: In Part One of this article I suggested that we could make sense of the proposition that a particular law is the answer to a question by constructing a factual outline which would trigger the thrust of that law. How far are we from…
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Internal Waters
Internal Waters Definition Internal waters may be defined as waters on the landward side of the baseline ("The Law of Sea", Robin Rolf Churchill, ?Alan Vaughan Lowe, 1988), which is used for measuring the width of territorial waters. Internal waters refer to rivers, canals, and […]
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Habeas Litigation
Detainees at Guantanamo: Habeas Litigation in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Detainees at Guantanamo: Habeas Litigation: (1) Al Warafi v. Obama On May 24, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a […]
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Habeas Litigation
Detainees at Guantanamo: Habeas Litigation in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Detainees at Guantanamo: Habeas Litigation: (1) Al Warafi v. Obama On May 24, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a […]
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Direct Effect Requirement
"Direct Effect" Requirement in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In December 2011, the United States filed a brief as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court of the United States advocating […]
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Bankruptcy Proceedings
Resources See Also Bankruptcy Code, and various types of bankruptcy are examined in the legal dictionary Adequate protection Automatic stay Composition with creditors Core proceeding Cram down Debtor in possession Workout Resources See Also Straight bankruptcy Resources See Also Family […]
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Geographic Information Systems
Profound technological advances are transforming the basic nature of information management. As governments implement new information technology, conventional paper records are fast giving way to powerful electronic databases. One type of information management system increasingly being […]
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Political History as Science
Political History as Science The New Political History as Science While the origins and presuppositions of the new political history were diverse and complex, they are easy to trace because the new genre was far more conscious of methodology than historians had ever been before. Newsletters, journals and training programs were established to study and…
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Detention Policies Guided by Rule of Law
Detention Policies Guided by Rule of Law in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In his remarks at Harvard Law School, discussed in A.1.a.(2)(ii) supra, Assistant to the President John O. Brennan […]
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Us Consular Notification Compliance Act
United States Consular Notification Compliance Act: Questions For the Record in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): After the July 27, 2011 hearing, both the Justice Department and the State Department […]
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Piracy Prosecutions Issues
Piracy U.S. Prosecutions in 2013 (Continuation) United States views on international law [1] in relation to Piracy U.S. Prosecutions: 1. Piracy and the Charming Betsy Canon Section 1651 criminalizes “the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations.” Correspondence between […]
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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 […]