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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
COMPARATIVE
LAW
2006 AMERICAN NATIONAL REPORTS
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American Law in the 21st Century:
U.S. National Reports to the XVIIth International Congress of
Comparative Law
Edited by John C. Reitz and David
S. Clark
(2006, 754 pp., US$ 35, ISBN 0-9776682-0-7)
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CONTENTS
Preface
John C. Reitz & David S.
Clark
American
Participation in the Development of the International Academy of
Comparative
Law and Its First Two Hague Congresses
David S. Clark
SECTION I: Legal History and Legal Theory
Disciplinary
Evolution and Scholarly Expansion: Legal History in the United States
Michael H. Hoeflich & Steve Sheppard
Legal Limitations on Genetic Research and the
Commercialization of Its Results
Michael J. Malinowski & Radhika
Rao
The Doctrine of Precedent in the United States of America
Mortimer N. S. Sellers
Bilingualism and Translation in the
U.S. Legal System: A Study of the Louisiana Experience
George A. Bermann
SECTION II: Civil Law, Procedure,
and Private
International Law
New Developments in Succession Law
Ronald J. Scalise, Jr.
Parenthood in a Time of Transition: Tensions between Legal,
Biological,
and Social Conceptions of Parenthood
David D. Meyer
The
Boundaries of Property
Rights: La Notion de Biens
Alain A. Levasseur
Estoppel and Textualism
Gregory E. Maggs
Pure Economic Loss in American Tort
Law: An Unstable Consensus
David Gruning
Contracts Subject to
Non-State Norms
Symeon C. Symeonides
New
Experiences of
International Arbitration in the United States
Christopher R. Drahozal
Recognition of Same-Sex Legal Relationships in the United
States
Peter Hay
The Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary Liability of Judges
John O. Haley
Access
to Justice, Costs, and Legal Aid
James P. George
Agriculture and the Polluter
Pays Principle
Ved P. Nanda
SECTION
III: Commercial and Labor Law
Control and Responsibility of Rating Agencies in the United
States
Arthur R. Pinto
Vertical
Restraints on Competition
Franklin A. Gevurtz
Abusive Advertising on the
Internet (SPAM) under United States Law
Peter B. Maggs
Representation of Employees within the Firm: The
United States Report
Matthew W. Finkin
The Liability and Responsibility of the State of Registration
or the Flag State in Respect of Sea-Going Vessels, Aircraft and
Spacecraft Registered by National Registration
Sompong Sucharitkul
SECTION IV:
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Characteristics
of International Administration in Crisis Areas: A View from the United
States of
America
Fred Morrison
Constitutional
Guarantees of the
Judiciary: Jurisdiction, Tenure, and Beyond
Laurence Claus
Constitutional Referendum in the United States of America
William B. Fisch
Beyond Golf Clubs and the Judicialization of Politics: Why
Europe has a Constitution Properly So Called
Mattias Kumm
United States Migration Law:
Essentials for Comparison
Chris Nwachukwu Okeke & James A.R.
Nafziger
Corruption and Accountability of the Civil Service in
the United States
Peter W. Schroth
Whither the Precautionary Principle? An
American Assessment from an Administrative
Law Perspective
Stephen G. Wood, Stephen Q. Wood &
Rachel A. Wood
The Rulemaking Power of Independent
Regulatory Agencies
Dominique Custos
Restricting the Legislative
Power to Tax in the United States
Stephen W. Mazza & Tracy A. Kaye
SECTION
V: Criminal Law and Procedure
Anti-Racketeering
Legislation in America
Craig M. Bradley
Causing Death for Compassionate
Reasons in American Law
Richard S. Kay
The Entrenched Position of Plea Bargaining in United
States
Legal Practice
Jacqueline E. Ross
SECTION V1: Computers
and Law
E-Government
John C. Reitz
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