This is a national project rather than an international one, though it draws on the powerful instinct to harmonize approaches among states recognizing the distinctiveness of national legal traditions.[6] This project focuses on both legal transformation through the exercise of judicial authority (especially in common law states),[7] and reinterpretation of customary legal principles (especially, though not exclusively, in civil law states).[8] Its object is transnational in the sense that its… [read post]

  If you have been following the machinations by the Obama Justice Department [sic] over amending the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees,  you may have found yourself wondering who was responsible for rejecting the good faith efforts of the songwriting community in favor of a cynical back room deal with multinational tech companies and broadcasters. [read post]

This document must conform to a rigged format.The Brief is bound like a book with a table of contents and an alphabetical list of all the cases to be cited as precedent in the appeal, all the original transcripts and exhibits from the original trial and a brief with the pre ­sentation of the facts and the law, with emphasis onwhy the decision should or should not be upheld. [read post]