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Can a Consumer's Right to Know Survive the WTO?: The Case of Food Labeling

I Introduction - II Voluntary vs Mandatory Food Labels - A Circumscribing the Utility of Voluntary Labels - B The Power of Mandatory Labels - III Is the Consumer "Right to Know" a Sufficient Basis for Food Labeling in the United States? - A Legal Resistance to Voluntary Labels - 1 Consumer resistance- 2 Competitor resistance - B Legal Resistance to Mandatory Labels - 1 Resistance on Statutory Grounds-Lack of Authority - 2 Resistance on First Amendment Grounds-Compelled Commercial Speec...

Chinese Administrative Law in the Northeast

I Introduction - II Administrative Law in Northeast Asia - A Administrative Law and the Northeast Asian "Developmental State" - 1 Developmental-State Administrative Law "On the Books" - 2 Understanding Administrative Law in the Developmental State - 3 Lessons from Administrative Law in the Developmental States - B Slouching Towards Pluralism?: Reforms to Northeast Asian Administrative Law in the 1990s - 1 Lessons from the Transformation - III China in the Northeast Asian Mirror...

Comparative Analysis of Ending a War Against the Will of the Executive in the United States and United Kingdom

I Road to War and Relevance of the Topic- II Comparisons of the two Systems-Structural and Functional Differences- III Confronting Executive Leadership on war Powers: Similarities Between America and Britain - IV Confronting Executive Leadership on war Powers: Differences in form with Practical Similarities Between America and Britain- V Confronting Executive Leadership on war Powers: Similarities in form with Practical Differences Between America and Britain- A Question Time- VI Aside From I...

Controlling the State?: Mediation in Administrative Litigation in the People's Republic of China

I Introduction - II Non-Judicial Systems of Control Over Administrative Conduct - III Administrative Responses to Administrative Complaints- IV The System of Administrative Litigation - V The Practice and Reform of Administrative Litigation in the PRC - VI Conclusions -

Decentralized Democracy: A Model for China Representative

Divorce in the European Union: Should Ireland Recognize Foreign Divorces?

I Introduction to the Recognition of Divorce in Ireland - II The Development of Irish Divorce Law - A The Constitutional Framework - B The Law Changes to Allow for Limited Recognition of Divorce - C The Concept of Domicile Remains at the Center of the Recognition of Foreign Jurisdictions - III The Impact of the Brussels II Regulation on Irish Divorce Law - A Ireland's Signing of Brussels II - B Differences between the Law under the Recognition of Foreign Divorces of 1986 and the Bruss...

Introduction to China: Law, Finance and Security-A Symposium

Just Compensation: Ideal or Compromise? A Comparison of the Implementation of the Just Compensation Clause and Forced Urban Evictions in China and South Korea

I Introduction - II Just Compensation: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Considerations - A The Theory of Just Compensation - 1 Fairness and Efficiency - 2 Just Compensation and Legitimacy - B Problems with the Concept of Just Compensation - III Legal Framework for just Compensation - A Constitutional Provisions on Just Compensation - 1 China - a) Private Property Rights- b) Just Compensation- 2 South Korea - B Other Legal Provisions - 1 China - 2 South Korea - IV Th...

The Colombian Law of Justice and Peace: One Step Further From Peace and One Step Closer to Impunity?

I The State of Affairs in Colombia: Amnesty, Impunity, and Governmental Efforts to Regain Control - II Colombia's History: A Violent Past, ongoing Carnage, and Hope for the Future? - A Colombia's Political Violence: "La Violencia" and its Sordid Repercussions - B Colombia's Political Violence: The End of "La Violencia" and the Rise to Power of the Vehement Non-State Actors - III The Law Of Justice And Peace: A Precarious Balance Between Impunity and Upholding Legal Responsibility Under In...

The Difficult Road for Rights Advocacy An Unpredictable Future for the Development of the Rule of Law in China

I Reasons for the Rise of the Rights Advocacy Movement - A Continuing Economic Growth and Large-scale Human Rights Violations - B Dual Transitions of Official Ideological Discourse and Political Leadership - C The Emergence of "Cause Lawyering" - II The Difficult Road for Rights Advocacy: Facts and Cases - A The Revision of the Petitioning Regulation - B The Repercussions for Chinese Lawyers - III Rights Advocacy: a Tendency to Discredit the Authority of the Law - IV The Next St...

The Rule of Law, The Chinese Communist Party, and Ideological Campaigns: Sange Daibiao (The Three Represents), Socialist Rule Of Law, and Modern Chinese Constitutionalism

I The Difficulties Of Contextualizing Chinese Constitutionalism within Constitutionalism and within China - II Sange Daibiao (the Three Represents) as a Path to Substantive Constitutionalism with Chinese Characteristics - A Less Party More State - B More Party Less State - III Building on the three Represents Fundamentals - A The Elaboration of the Substantive Values of Sange Daibiao (The Three Represents)- 1 Ba Rong Ba Chi - B The Difficulties of Sange Daibiao and Process Constitut...

The Taiwan Issue and Sino-U.S. Relations

I Introduction - II The Rise of China's Nationalism - III The Return of Taiwan to China - IV The Establishment of PRC-Us Relations - V Cross-Strait Relations - A Evolution of PRC's Taiwan Policy - B The Thawing of Cross-Strait Relations - C The Rise of Advocates for Taiwan's Independence and the PRC Response - D Taiwan's Growing Ties with the Mainland - VI Conclusion -