Good writing is transparent. It disappears into the background and allows the writer’s meaning to shine through. As attorneys, in our haste to stylize language for the page, we sometimes forget about the most important component of our writing, the reader. Our goal as writers should always be to c...   MORE>>

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The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides legal researchers with the ideal moment in South African history to, among other things, develop and enrich its common law. This is demonstrated in, for example, the Carmichele case series that provides insight into how the ...   MORE>>

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The right to education is a universally recognised socio-economic human right and is similarly guaranteed and protected in section 29 of the Constitution. Owing to the nature of education and training, cultural rights are inextricably interwoven with the right to education.

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More than a century before Grotius wrote his famous work on international law, his countryman Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam laid the foundations for the modern critique of war. In several writings, especially those published in the period 1515-1517, the “prince of humanists” brilliantly and de...   MORE>>

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The development of foreign law collections in the United States has been divided into three stages. The first stage started in the nineteenth century with the Library of Congress and the Harvard Law School Library taking the lead in a period of “haphazard growth.” “In 1845 it was ...   MORE>>

The Journal of East Asia and International Law is deeply honored to introduce professor Emeritus Sompong Sucharitkul from Thailand as the first figure for section which attempts in-depth coverage of the life and ideas of a highly renowned international lawyer of our time.

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I am touched, Chair, by the invitation to deliver the keynote address at your meeting. A keynote address is supposed to set the key for the occasion. It should be filled with wisdom and jurisprudential philosophy. However, I imagine that most of you would prefer an address that sounds more like back...   MORE>>

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On April 26-27, 2002 the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center presented a unique program entitled “Teaching Consumer Law” [the Houston program]. The program was organized and chaired by Richard M. Alderman, Professor of Law at the University of Houst...   MORE>>

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The Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center, under the direction of Executive Director (and Dwight Olds Chair in Law) Richard Alderman, conducted its second program on “Teaching Consumer Law” on May 21-22, 2004 in Houston (2004 Program). This is believe...   MORE>>

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Law students today have considerable freedom in their course selection. Although the first year at most law schools is filled with required courses, only a few required courses are seen in the second year, and the third year is often occupied entirely by elective courses. Although...   MORE>>