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Palestinians: More Jewish (and Less Muslim) than the Jews of the Middle East?!

Posted on March 18, 2009
I have always been interested in what tends to lie hidden beneath the pretty words and other absurdities that has constituted the multi-generational participatory theatre of the Middle East and a significant diversion for politicians, academics, religious communities, lawyers and others from around the globe with many axes to grind and many agendas (hidden or otherwise) to further...

Preserving the Sheep in Contests for Control Among the Shepards: The Emerging Shape of International Humanitarian Law Based Management of Conflict

Posted on March 15, 2009
It has become clearer since the start of the Great Power adventurism that produced in the late 20th century the numerous states sundered out of Yugoslavia (itself a construct cobbled together in the early 20th Century by a coterie of predecessor Great Powers), that law has become an instrumental framework through which violent conflict is managed...

It is Hardly Ever About the Economy: On the G-20 and Global FInancial Crisis

Posted on March 14, 2009
The next set meetings of the G-20 has commenced in the midst of what is possibly the early stages of the current economic downturn. G-20 Ministers Meet Aid Divisions, BBC News OnLine, March 14, 2009. According to its own self conception: "The G-20 now has a crucial role in driving forward work between advanced and emerging economies to tackle the international financial and economic crisis, restore worldwide financial stability, lead the international economic recovery and secure a sustainable future for all countries...

Women and Labor in Times of Economic Crisis: Ideology, National Policy, the Media and the Molding of Public Perception

Posted on March 08, 2009
Reality, and especially the reality of the current political situation it seems, is in large part a creature of the desires of the state and its media outlets. Facts are deployed to construct a reality that suits the ideological objective, policy goals, and motivational framework for the control of the masses...

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The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations: Using Soft Law to Operationalize a Transnational System of Corporate Governance

Posted on March 05, 2009

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Crisis: Conference at the University of Iowa College of Law

Posted on March 03, 2009

Ruminations XXVIII: The Archeology of Knowledge and the Certainty of Law

Posted on February 28, 2009

Ruminations XXVII: On Modernity, the State and the Great Migrations of Peoples

Posted on February 27, 2009

Ruminations XXVI: On the Media, Manipulation, Work and Dementia

Posted on February 26, 2009

Ruminations XXV: The Other Rule of Law

Posted on February 25, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XXIV: AIG and the New Face of Controlled Economies

Posted on February 24, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XXIII: An Ancient Basis for Creating Modern Non-State Regulatory Systems

Posted on February 23, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XXIII: The Other Rule of Law

Posted on February 23, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XXII: Business Power, State Power and the Enforced Infantilization of the Individual

Posted on February 22, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XXI: Empathy

Posted on February 21, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XX: Liberty, The Will and Act

Posted on February 20, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XIX: Monkey Shines

Posted on February 19, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XVII: The Separation of Ownership and Control in the Public and Private Sectors

Posted on February 18, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XVIII: Ideology and Science in the Education of Children

Posted on February 18, 2009

Ruminations XVI: Fundamentalisms

Posted on February 16, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XV: Exposure Draft Chinese Overseas Investments Rules

Posted on February 15, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XIV- Democracy Part XIV: On the Gesture and Substance of the Legislative Function in Advanced Democracies

Posted on February 14, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XIII: Beating Education into Teachers

Posted on February 13, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XII: Mother's Milk

Posted on February 12, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations XI: The Cirminalizaton of Politics and the Judicial forms of Warfare

Posted on February 11, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations X: On a Fundamental Rule of International Relations

Posted on February 10, 2009
Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 B.C. - 54 B.C.) may have inadvertently provided a most insightful statement of a fundamental rule of international relations, and especially the relations between the creditor and debtor states.AVT sodes mihi redde decem sestertia, Silo,deinde esto quamuis saeuus et indomitus:aut, si te nummi delectant, desine quaesoleno esse atque idem saeuus et indomitus...

Ruminations IX: Liebestod Hugs

Posted on February 09, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations VIII: Surveillance, Praetorianism and the End of the public-Private Divide

Posted on February 08, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations VII: On Aggregations of Public/Private Power

Posted on February 07, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

Ruminations VI: On Flags

Posted on February 06, 2009
This is another in what I hope to be a month long series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope is that, built up on each other, the series will provide a matrix of thoughts that together might lead the reader in new directions...

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