Various studies have been written about human rights and freedoms. Addressing this issue appears to be within everyone’s reach and everyone seems to be good at launching discussions about human rights and freedoms. When we are given the opportunity of collecting information about these...

In this study, we have decided to do an analysis of consciousness, thought and religion through the prism of the concept of freedom. The authors of the European Convention on Human Rights agreed to protect not only the private and family life of the individual, his/her correspondence and...

The Scottish decision in Morris (Liquidator of Bank of Credit amp; Commerce International), Re Petition of The Bank of England is correct that an ancillary winding-up makes good sense and may disapply local procedural rules that do not serve any practical purpose. Owing to a misunderstanding of...

New approaches to regulation have emerged to deal with inadequacies of traditional command and control systems. Such new governance mechanisms are designed to increase flexibility, improve participation, foster experimentation and deliberation, and accommodate complex multi-level systems. In...

This Article is an invited contribution to a symposium held at Duke University Law School under the title quot;The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States?quot; The Article disputes part of this title by contending that, unlike its American counterpart, European...

The Long Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) was one of the most aggressive lenders to real estate developers during the 1990s. Its financing activities covered the Pacific, including Australia, Vietnam, Saipan and Hawaii, as well as parts of the continental United States. Once one of Japan's three...

This article discusses the potential effects of a declaration by Ireland on its acceptance of the European Arrest Warrant (stating Ireland's opposition to investigative detention) on the interpretation of the Framework Decision and of Ireland's implementing legislation, in the broader context of...

Class actions are still a specificity of U.S. law and allow individual claimants to represent others, in a similar situation, at the occasion of a lawsuit brought against a same defendant. Several multinationals incorporated outside the United States are more and more frequently facing class...

This study discusses a murder case in France's trial court for the most serious crimes, the Cour d'assises. The case was highly unusual because the person on trial was an American, accused of having murdered other Americans in the United States. For reasons given below, cases in which crimes...

This is the Twentieth Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It covers cases decided by American state or federal courts from January 1 to December 31, 2006, and reported during the same period. Of the 2,598 conflicts cases that met both of these parameters, the Survey focuses on the...