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Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
  Volume 21, Number 4, Summer 2009 
  • WU LIHONG, LAKE TAI, AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF PROTECTING CHINA'S ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY
  • SMALL CAPACITY AND BIG RESPONSIBILITIES: FINANCIAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF A HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  • RIVER BASIN SECURITY: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE SAVE AND PUNGWE RIVER BASINS OF ZIMBABWE AND MOZAMBIQUE
  • ACCESS TO WATER IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT DISPUTES
  • LOOKING FOR WATER DOWN UNDER: REVITALIZING WYOMING'S WATER LAWS IN LIGHT OF NEW SOUTH WALES'S WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000
  • LEGAL ACTIVISM AND RIVER POLLUTION IN INDIA
  • THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOFT LAW: FIRST INSIGHTS FROM COMPARING LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENTS WITH FLEXIBLE ACTION PROGRAMS

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    Law and Business Review of the Americas
      Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 2009 
  • The 2008 Bankruptcy of Literacy—A Legal Analysis of the Subprime Mortgage Fiasco
  • To Rank Pari Passu or not to Rank Pari Passu: That is the Question in Sovereign Bonds after the Latest Episode of the Argentine Saga
  • An Uncertain Penalty: A Look at the International Community's Inability to Harmonize the Law of Liquidated Damage and Penalty Clauses
  • Avoiding a Subprime-like Crises in Microfinance: Lessons from Mexican and Bolivian Experience
  • Brazil v. Argentina: Different Responses to the Rising Food Commodities Market
  • Transnational Pollution and the Efficacy of International and Domestic Dispute Resolutions among the NAFTA Countries
  • Family Tradition: Cuban Policy Reform as Raul Castro Takes the Reigns
  • Summit of the Americas
  • Recent Developments in NAFTA Law
  • Canada Update—Highlights of Major Legal News and Significant Court Cases from February 2009 through April 2009

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    Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy (Australia)
      Volume 34, 2009 
  • Counterfactual Dependance as an Independent, Non-Causal Desert-Determiner
  • Legal Positivism and the Rule of Law
  • The Analytic Dictinction between Questions of Fact and Questions of Law
  • Ross and Olivercrona on Rights
  • Punishment Without A Crime: Is Preventive Detention Reconcilable with Justice?
  • The Legal Philosophy of Internationally Assisted Tyrannicide
  • Saying Something Interesting in Jurisprudence, a Young Scholar's Story
  • In Defence of the Responsible Subject
  • Seeing Red: Legal Indifference on a Field of Pain and Death
  • Comment on Law and Irresponsibility
  • Compared to What?
  • Author's Response to Commentators
  • Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (by Gillian Brock)
  • An Idealist Justification of Punishment (by Jane Johnson)
  • Equality and Legitimacy (by Wojciech Sadurski)
  • Introduction
  • Tom Campbell's Proposal for a Democratic Bill of Rights
  • Tom Campbell and Democratic Legal Positivism
  • Tom Campbell's Ethical Positivism

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    Carbon & Climate Law Review (Germany)
      2009, Number 2 
  • Thematic Focus: Carbon Finance and Investment Climate Policy and Economic Bust: The European Challenges to Create Green Stimulus
  • External Reporting of the Risks Linked to the EU ETS—an Exploratory Study of German HDAX Non-Financial Corporations
  • Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis: Designing Carbon Markets for Environmental Effectiveness and Financial Stability
  • Regulatory Challenges for Financial and Carbon Markets
  • Securitising Risk and the Clean Development Mechanism
  • Financial Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation: Global Resource Requirements and Proposals for International Burden Sharing
  • On the Re-regulation of the Liberalised Power Market in Europe
  • Suspension of Eligibility to Use of the Kyoto Flexible Mechanisms: A Review of Substantive Issues (Part 1)
  • International
  • European Union
  • North America

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    European Energy and Environmental Law Review (Netherlands)
      Volume 18, Number 5, October 2009 
  • The Liberalization Process and Third Party Access in the Electricity Network in Greece and the UK
  • Biochar and Waste Law: A Comparative Analysis
  • Regulatory Exemptions for New Gas Infrastructure. A Key Challenge for European Energy Policy

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    European Public Private Partnership Law Review (Germany)
      2009, Number 1 
  • The Effects of the Principles of Transparency and Accountability on Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships Regulation
  • The Railways at the Crossroads of Liberalisation and Public Service
  • Extending the Scope of Public-Private Partnerships in France
  • Strengthening UN Programmes at national Level through Partnerships with UNESCO's National Commissions

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    Malawi Law Journal (Malawi)
      Volume 3, Number 1, 2009 
  • The SADC Finance and Investment Protocol and the reform of the Malawian financial services regulatory framework Reflections in retrospect
  • The rhetoric and practice in land reform in Malawi: A contextualised governmentality analysis
  • Towards good corporate governance in state-owned industries: The accountability of directors
  • The death penalty under the laws of Malawi and the law of human rights
  • The admissibility of cases before the African Court on Human and People's Rights: Who should do what?
  • Masiya: Gender equality and role of the common law
  • Execution by hanging not torture or cruel punishment? Attorney General v Kigula & Others
  • Harri Englund — Prisoners of freedom: Human rights and the African poor

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    Children's Legal Rights Journal
      Volume 29, Number 2, Summer 2009 
  • "What Began as a Cause Has Become a Profession:" Reflections on the Role of Loyola's Civitas ChildLaw Center in the Development of Children's Law as a Legal Specialty
  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Thailand: An International Illustration on the Challenges of Confronting the Final Frontier
  • Recognizing Race as a Reality, Not a Barrier: The Problems with Colorblind Adoption Policy within a Race-Conscious America
  • A Generation Later: Reservations with the Indian Child Welfare Act
  • Lowering the Voting Age to Sixteen: The Case for Enhancing Youth Civic Engagement
  • Statistically Speaking: Inconsistencies in American Transracial Adoption Policies
  • Book Review: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
  • Spotlight On: Spence-Chapin—Child Centered Adoption
  • In Better Hands: An Interview with Dina Calamur, Pediatrician at University of Chicago and Loyola University
  • Legislative Update: Providing a Transition for Foster Care Youth
  • In the Courts: Juveniles Charged as Adults

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    Municipal Lawyer
      Volume 50, Number 4, July/August 2009 
  • Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: The Supreme Court's First Look at Municipal Government Speech
  • The Risky Continuum: Abandoning the Use of Force Continuum to Enhance Risk Management
  • Click! A Snapshot of Automated Traffic Enforcement Issues
  • Regulating Noah's Ark—Religious Freedom and Animal Control Issues

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    PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
      Volume 32, Number 1, May 2009 
  • Editor's Introduction
  • “I vote, therefore I am:” Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi
  • Flexibility versus Rigidity in the Practice of Islamic Family Law
  • States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela
  • Territorial Democracy: Caste, Dominance and Electoral Practice in Postcolonial India
  • Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti
  • INTERVIEW: The “New Anthropology of Crime”
  • Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis by William Haltom and Michael McCann\
  • El Estado y los indígenas en tiempos del PAN: neoindigenismo, legalidad e identidad edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández, Sarela Paz, and María Teresa Sierra
  • Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar
  • The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology, and Postcoloniality by Vassos Argyrou
  • Le Jugement en Action – Ethnomėthodologie du Droit, de la Morale et de la Justice en Egypte by Baudoin Dupret
  • The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in post-1980 Turkey by Sam Kaplan
  • The Politics of Citizenship of Mexican Migrants by Alejandra Castañeda
  • Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab
  • Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang V irtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh

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    Banking Law Journal
      Volume 126, Number 8, September 2009 
  • HEADNOTE: POLICY AND STATUTORY CHANGES
  • FDIC ADOPTS FINAL POLICY ON PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS IN FAILED BANKS
  • CREDIT CARD ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCLOSURE ACT OF 2009 BECOMES LAW
  • SIGNIFICANT BANK HOLDING COMPANY CONVERSION ISSUES
  • THE THIRD AML-DIRECTIVE: EUROPE'S RESPONSE TO THE THREAT OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING: PART II
  • BANKING BRIEFS

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    Journal of Taxation
      Volume 111, Number 4, October 2009 
  • First Circuit in Textron gives IRS access to tax accrual workpapers
  • Passive losses, LLCs and LLPs--two courts reject the Service's attempt to limit losses
  • Closely held companies: Now might be the best time to convert to tax partnership status
  • Executive compensation and corporate governance standards for TARP recipients
  • Taxation of life settlements--unanswered questions after Rev. Ruls. 2009-13 and 2009-14

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    Lex Localis: Journal of Local Self-Government (Slovenia)
      Volume 7, Number 4, October 2009 
  • Why is Voluntary Co-operation Condemned to Failure? Reflections on the Polish and German Background
  • Experiment and Institutionalization: Clean Elections in New Jersey
  • Proposal of Division of Slovenia into Provinces
  • Jurisdiction in the Territorial Hierarchical Administration Office: An Example of the Historical Land of Styria from 1186 to 1850

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    AIPLA Quarterly Journal
      Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2009 
  • The Unreasonableness of the Patent Office's "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" Standard
  • Open Source Dual Licensing as a Business Model: How a Flexible IP Strategy Helped Create the World's Most Popular Open Source Database Company
  • Copyright Enforcement at All Costs? Finding a Place for Balance in the International Enforcement Agenda

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    American Business Law Journal
      Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2009 
  • Legal Loopholes and Underenforced Laws: Examining the Ethical Dimensions of Corporate Legal Strategy
  • Mutual Misunderstanding in Contract
  • Rational Design Rights Ignorance
  • Still Crazy After All These Years? The ADEA, the Roberts Court, and Reclaiming Age Discrimination as Differential Treatment

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    Computer Law and Security Review (Netherlands)
      Volume 25, Issue 6, 2009 
  • Editor's foreword
  • Property rights in personal data: Learning from the American discourse
  • Internet of things – Need for a new legal environment?
  • The growing phenomenon of crime and the internet: A cybercrime execution and analysis model
  • Unauthorised access to wireless local area networks: The limitations of the present Australian laws
  • The “process” of patenting: Why should we care about a potential U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Doll?
  • Software patents in the United States: A balanced approach
  • Developments in electronic money regulation – the Electronic Money Directive: A better deal for e-money issuers?
  • Current developments in Open Source Software
  • The anonymous police blogger, the newspaper and the unmasking of Night Jack
  • EU update
  • European national news
  • Asia-Pacific news

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    Criminology & Public Policy
      Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2009 
  • Gang databases: To be or not to be
  • Gangs and public policy: Constructing and deconstructing gang databases
  • Gang databases: Context and questions
  • Gangs and public policy: Constructing and deconstructing gang databases
  • Street gang databases: A view from the gang capitol of the United States
  • Gangs, law enforcement, and the academy
  • Conceptual, methodological, and policy considerations in the study of police misconduct
  • Bad cops: A study of career-ending misconduct among New York City police officers
  • Police officer misconduct as normal accidents: An organizational perspective
  • Rotten apples, rotten branches, and rotten orchards: A cautionary tale of police misconduct
  • Bad cops
  • The impact of the death penalty on murder
  • Does the death penalty save lives?: New evidence from state panel data, 1977 to 2006
  • Can't tell: Comments on "Does the death penalty save lives?"
  • Don't scrap the death penalty
  • Conducted energy devices and criminal justice policy
  • Examining fatal and nonfatal incidents involving the TASER: Identifying predictors of suspect death reported in the media
  • Should police departments develop specific training and policies governing use of multiple TASER shocks against individuals who might be in vulnerable physiological states?
  • Research on conducted energy devices: Findings, methods, and a possible alternative
  • Conducted energy weapons: Learning from operational discretion and encounter outcomes

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    Police Quarterly
      Volume 12, Number 4, December 2009 
  • A Sheriffs Office as a Learning Organization
  • Dissecting Police Professionalism: A Comparison of Predictors Within Five Professionalism Subsets
  • Examining Racial Disparity in the Police Discipline Process
  • An Examination of the Workplace Experiences of Police Patrol Officers: The Role of Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation

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    Macquarie Journal of Business Law (Australia)
      Volume 6, 2009 
  • IMPLICATIONS OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT IN BANGLADESH: PROSPECTS AND CONCERNS
  • CHOOSING THE BEST REMEDY: A METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENT OF COST EFFECTIVENESS IN COMPETING INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER TRANSACTION REDRESS METHODS
  • DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION IN VICTORIA: THE CORRECTNESS OF EAMES J’S DECISION IN MCCABE
  • THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: A COMPROMISING RELATIONSHIP
  • HARMONISATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION LAW AND SHARIA
  • THE JURISDICTION OF THE ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL: A TRANSNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF COMPETENCE
  • THE LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES OF THE APPLICATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF MISREPRESENTATION: STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS
  • IMPACTS OF RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE MADRID SYSTEM ON AUSTRALIAN USERS & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE REFORM
  • ASIC v. CITIGROUP: FIDUCIARY DUTIES, MANAGING CONFLICTS AND CHINESE WALLS
  • FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN INSURANCE SECTOR IN INDIA
  • “ELEVENTH HOUR COLLAPSE: AN ELEMENTS-BASED COMPARISON OF THE GERMAN DOCTRINE OF CULPA IN CONTRAHENDO AND AUSTRALIAN PRINCIPLES OF PRE-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY”
  • ‘MARRIAGE-LIKE RELATIONSHIPS’ AND SOCIAL SECURITY: RETIREES AND THE AGE PENSION
  • CHINA – GROWTH AND ITS CHALLENGES
  • REFLECTIONS ON THE ROLE OF MEDIATORS AND ARBITRATORS CAN A GOOD MEDIATOR ALSO BE A GOOD ARBITRATOR?
  • THE OTHER PATHS TO LIABILITY FOR BREACHES OF S 52: FORGOTTEN CORNERS OF THE TRADE PRACTICES ACT?
  • THE EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS – CAN MEMBER NATIONS AVOID A MOVE TO PROTECTIONISM?
  • A PROMISE MADE IS A DEBT UNPAID: THE CASE OF ORCHARD v. CURTIS, SUPREME COURT OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, 12 JULY 1833
  • BUNDLING: AN OVERVIEW OF NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN TRADE PRACTICES LAWS
  • THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT AND THE INDICIA OF EFFECTIVE REGULATION – A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
  • THE NEW INDONESIAN COMPANY LAW: DOES IT SUPPORT GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE?
  • BOOK REVIEW: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND FREE TRADE: INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES

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    Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
      Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2009  
  • THE GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGE AND NIGERIA'S EMERGENCE AS A MAJOR GAS POWER: PROMISE, PERIL OR PARADOX OF PLENTY?
  • THE COWBOY, THE SOUTHERN MAN, AND THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF PROPERTY IN AUSTRALIA, THE UNTIED STATES, AND NEW ZEALAND
  • THE NEW INTERNATIONAL RULES ON OCEAN DUMPING: PROMISE AND PERFORMARCE
  • INTRODUCTION: THE GEORGETOWN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW'S DIRECTED NOTES PROGRAM
  • RAISING THE LEVEE: DUTCH LAND USE LAW AS A MODEL FOR U.S. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
  • ARCTIC MELT: THE TIPPING POINT FOR AN ARCTIC TREATY
  • INDIGENOUS ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE PRESERVING SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH AN ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP CLAIM & TRUST FUND REMEDY
  • USING CHEVRON AS A GUIDE: ALLOWING FOR THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IN WTO PRACTICES