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Legal awareness in society has soared to unprecedented levels.
Ever since Deng Xiaoping ushered in the “reform and opening” era in 1978, the Chinese leadership has seen the legal system as an instrument to carry out state policies.
In turn, the government encouraged the idea that ordinary citizens had legal rights as a way to ensure social stability, check petty corruption, and channel social grievances through a party-controlled mechanism.
The new property rights law undoubtedly offers stronger protection to Chinese citizens, in particular homeowners, by equalizing the legal status of private and state property.
Perhaps more importantly, the law indirectly consolidates, at least in theory, the concept of a private sphere in Chinese society: a physical and legal area protected from arbitrary state intervention that could potentially serve as a basis for demanding greater political participation.
When lawyers and legal activists try to help villagers or evicted residents to fight through the legal system, they often become victims of retaliation.
The central authorities have recognized the link between abuses, unrest, and the need to develop legal services for preventing the escalation of disputes.
Wen Jiabao, China’s Premier, acknowledged last year that protests in the countryside were caused by “some localities [that] are unlawfully occupying farmers’ land” and promised “effective legal services and legal aid so as to provide effective help to people who have difficulty filing lawsuits.”
The government is fortunate to have my lawyer friend’s faith in the legal system, but now it must earn ordinary citizens’ trust by enacting reforms.
A fan of strongman leaders who “get it done,” Trump admires diktats and brazen contempt for legal processes.
Seeking a way out of this difficult situation, the Supreme Leader declared that the electoral disputes must be settled in through legal channels, not on the street.
Mousavi must carefully continue his legal campaign, without compromising the trust he has gained from the majority of Iranians.
An extensive global safety regime is now in place that includes binding international legal instruments, internationally agreed safety standards, peer review and assessment, nationally integrated systems of governmental and regulatory control, and research and development.
Although the Fed’s legal “independence” means that the White House cannot tell the Fed what to do, the Fed is fully accountable to Congress.
This form of price discrimination is legal as long as it does not occur on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, or religion.
Despite the activation in 2006 of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation (the legal framework for these issues), most of the promises were never fulfilled.
But the story has implications for scientists, engineers, administrators, and legal systems far beyond Italy’s borders.
Although its purpose is to help judges and attorneys to understand the science from which legal evidence is derived, its index contains no entry for earthquakes.
Even lawyers are getting into the act, trying to identify legal responsibility for the monetary union’s design flaws.
A legal vestige of the original plan may offer an easy path to a greater ECB supervisory role today.
And eurozone member states have agreed to perpetuate this financial-stability mechanism from 2013 onwards, and even to amend the Lisbon treaty to avoid any legal ambiguity.
There may be disputes in some cases, but the system has brought a degree of legal certainty across the single market that the EU’s member states could not have achieved on their own.
One clue as to why they attacked Russia's richest man is the fact that Khodorkovsky is the first oligarch to help the country's liberal parties as opposed to the ruling party of power, to support independent mass media, and to provide money to lawyers and legal assistants.
Inasmuch as corporate leaders work for the owners of the business, their responsibility is to pursue the best interests of their employers - interests that relate primarily to making as much money as possible while conforming to the legal rules and ethical norms of society.
Should China cut off those supplies, under the legal fig leaf of “export restraint,” US companies would be unable, at least in the short term, to find alternative sources that could cover all of their needs.
The sources of public administration failure include lack of professionalism in the civil service; vague, complex, and confusing legal rules; weak management of government finances; poor distribution of tasks across levels of government; lack of transparency in government processes, and the difficulty of holding officials accountable for their actions.
Eliminating the red tape clogging the legal process would cost nothing, but potentially would have large benefits.
The optimal approach would be to implement all of the various legal, tax, and institutional changes needed to take interest rates significantly negative, thereby eliminating the zero bound.
Singh won his case, but it cost him dearly in time and legal expenses.
Therefore, it must use all possible means to compel its members to abide by their international and European legal obligations.
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