Maine Law Review: Volume 60, No. 2 (2008)
Contents
- Symposium: Nation-Building: A Legal Architecture?
- Foreword
- Preface
Senator George Mitchell - Articles and Essays
- The Legal Architecture of Nation-Building: An Introduction
Charles H. Norchi - Development and Nation-Building: A Framework for Policy-Oriented Inquiry
W. Michael Reisman - Human Rights and Nation-Building in Cross-Cultural Settings
Burns H. Weston - Culture and Custom in Nation-Building: Law in Afghanistan
Thomas Barfield - Gender and Nation-Building: Family Law as Legal Architecture
Tracey E. Higgins and Rachel P. Fink - Refugees and Internally Displaced: A Challenge to Nation-Building
Rebecca M. M. Wallace and Diego Quiroz - The Rise of Outsourcing in Modern Warfare: Sovereign Power, Private Military Actors, and the Constitutive Process
Winston P. Nagan and Craig Hammer - Looking Backward to Address the Future? Transitional Justice, Rising Crime, and Nation-Building
James L. Cavallaro - Odious Debts and Nation-Building: When the Incubus Departs
Lee C. Bucheit and G. Mitu Gulati - The Importance of Commercial Law in the Legal Architecture of Post-Conflict “New” States
Michael J. Stepek - The Role of a Banking System in Nation-Building
John L. Douglas - Special Section
- Volunteer Lawyers and Nation-Building: Using Experience to Serve the World Community
Jean C. Berman - Measuring the Rule of Law in India: A Volunteer Lawyer's Experience
Linda D. McGill - The Role of Public Interest Groups in Nation-Building: A Maine Lawyer's Experience in Mongolia
Richard A. Spencer - Kenya and the Rule of Law: The Perspective of Two Volunteers
Kim Matthews and William H. Coogan - Resurrecting the Rule of Law in Liberia
Jim Dube - Case Note
- Thinking Inside the Box: Placing Form Over Function in the Application of the Statutory Sentencing Procedure in State of Maine v. Eugene Downs
Matthew E. Lane
