Law and the shaping of American foreign policy: from the Gilded Age to the New Era
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Lawyers dominated American foreign policy from the Gilded Age until the end of the Second World War. American foreign policy leaders of the time were lawyers school in classical legal ideology. This led them to believe that international law, rather than strategic balances of power, would be the most effective guarantee of international peace and stability.
Publication Name: New York University Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0028-7881
Year: 2003
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Are the Woolf reforms an antidote for the cost disease? The problem of the increasing cost of litigation and English attempts at a solution
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The author addresses the question of whether the case management reforms of the 1998 Civil Procedure Rules in the United Kingdom will actually reduce litigation costs in the long run. Topics include the basic cost disease hypothesis.
Publication Name: University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1086-7872
Year: 2001
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Professional partnerships, competition and the evolution of firm cuture: the case of law firms
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The ability of lawyers to transfer between law firms has led to increased law firm competition and also had consequences relating to the relationship between lawyers. The effects and costs of this trend are analyzed.
Publication Name: The Journal of Corporation Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0360-795X
Year: 2001
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