May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA Professor Larry Catá Backer organized a superb symposium on Constitutional Review in the People’s Republic of China for the Suffolk University Law Review. The topic is clearly an important one not just in China, but throughout...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
According to legend, it was Odysseus of Ithaca who devised the plan to end the ten-year Trojan War by presenting to the Trojans a gift in the form of a giant wooden horse. The Greeks left the horse at the gates of Troy and apparently sailed away in an act of...
May 27, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
The 1997 “check-the-box” Regulations replaced the 1960 Kintner corporate resemblance tests, substituting simplicity and certainty for complexity and uncertainty regarding the federal tax classification of unincorporated business entities. The check-the-box...
Apr 12, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA The Communist Party of China (CPC or the Party) is the absolute power center in Chinese politics. Deng Xiaoping made the Four Cardinal Principles paramount in Chinese politics: upholding the socialist path; the people’s...
Apr 12, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 43
SYMPOSIUM: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA On July 24, 2001, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC or the Supreme Court) promulgated a new judicial interpretation. This interpretation, commonly referred to as the “Reply to Qi Yuling’s Case” took effect on August 13,...
Mar 22, 2010 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 43
In the late hours of March 23, 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker moved through the waters of Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska, en route to deliver fifty-three million gallons of crude oil to the lower forty-eight states. Steering the vessel was Captain...