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Though Japan had administrative control, Chinese ships would occasionally enter Japanese waters to assert their legal position.
He launched a series of legal proceedings to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrach neighborhood and elsewhere, and established a fund (backed by donations from wealthy, right-wing Americans) to buy land from Palestinians in order to give it to Israelis – sort of a racist Robin Hood in reverse.
With the reinstatement of the global gag rule, hard-won progress in women’s health could be stunted, or even reversed, all while violating women’s legal and human rights.
Instead of succumbing to destructive populism and dishonorable isolationism, Europe’s leaders must commit to fulfilling their legal and moral responsibility to help the refugees – and, of course, to explain to their citizens why this is so important.
To destroy the mafias, Maduro canceled these bills as legal tender and gave their holders only 72 hours to exchange them at banks.
Offering workers legal redress has turned their attention temporarily from the streets to mediation and may well have reduced the number of street demonstrations.
Any increase in Iraqi oil production requires developing the oil fields, which means big investments, a legal and representative government, and political stability.
For most of the twentieth century, large chunks of the world remained desperately poor for one or more of four related reasons: (1) criminal misgovernment; (2) lack of the machines to do anything useful and productive in the world economy besides subsistence agriculture and unskilled service work; (3) lack of the public education system needed to give people the literacy and the skills to operate the machines; and (4) barriers (legal and physical) that kept people where demand was low from selling the products of their work where demand was high.
The entire legal community arose to demand restoration of the country’s judges and reinforcement of the rule of law.
The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women – who can’t afford costly legal advice – against credit-card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex-husbands owe delinquent credit-card payments and child-support payments.
UN member states must also pledge to secure the extension of legal protections to high-seas biodiversity by closing the gaping governance loophole that exposes the ocean to plunder.
The PiS is seizing full control not only over judicial decision-making in the present, but also over the past two decades of legal precedent.
There is also the litany of complaints and legal cases now surrounding the firm.
Even the nationalization of Yukos’s assets may reflect little more than the absence of alternative buyers, given the obvious political obstacle passing those assets on to other domestic private-sector players (i.e., oligarchs), and the legal and reputational barriers to foreign investors.
The law, enacted just a month after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, was undoubtedly intended to provide a legal basis for expediting the citizenship-application process for residents of Crimea and the rest of eastern Ukraine.
The European Socialists will also have to define a more ambitious budget strategy, with higher spending for research, education, and other social investments, develop an industrial policy that transcends the simplistic logic of competitiveness, affirm a legal framework for European public services, and support greater EU-wide social and fiscal homogeneity.
Corporate contracts place the profit-oriented legal person at the center of the transaction and bind all of its stakeholders.
While an international legal code that defines cyber attacks more clearly, together with cooperation on preventive measures, can help, such arms-control solutions are not likely to be sufficient.
In Spain in 2008, a parliamentary resolution urged the government to grant some basic legal rights to great apes, but the Spanish government has yet to implement it.
Perhaps the release of these two very different films will lead to a further push to bring great apes within the circle of beings with moral and legal rights.
But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the chain of commission goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the chain of command.
A century ago, the sociologist Max Weber classified the three types of legitimacy that can ground governmental authority: traditional (an inherited system); charismatic (a particular leader’s force of personality); or legal (a set of rational rules, applied fairly).
For Weber, the modern state was rooted in a self-evident legal legitimacy.
The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons – and requires immigrants to produce proof of their legal status on demand.
Regardless of the outcome of the legal case, the Arizona law has proven to be popular in other states, and represents the rising importance of immigration as a political issue.
The recession exacerbated such views, and in 2009 half of Americans favored reducing legal immigration, up from 39% in 2008.
Data from the 2000 census show a soaring Hispanic population, owing largely to waves of new immigrants, legal and illegal.
Today, like in the twentieth century, nationalism is tearing societies apart and dividing erstwhile allies, by fueling antagonism toward the “other” and justifying physical and legal protectionist barriers.
The US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America have constructed a regional legal framework, which must not be abandoned, to defend democratic rule and human rights in the hemisphere.
France, Germany, and their allies have a four-part agenda to:1. strengthen EU institutions, with majority voting in the Council of Ministers made easier;2. push decisively toward developing common European foreign and defence policies;3. bring about European cooperation on issues relating to crime and immigration;4. most crucially, devise new legal arrangements that remove, forever, the power of Britain or any other recalcitrant member to obstruct the march of European integration.
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