... remains contingent on. It looks into Lone Wolf's background by considering federal law's expansion and allotment into Indian reservations for settlement. It describes how the western expansion placed enormous pressure on Indian territories and considers its motives. It discusses...

... (and the Government Procurement Agreement at the international level) in regulating the procurement process in particular. The chapter also gives an overview of the way in which government contracts are regulated in two other jurisdictions, French law, and US federal law. Both jurisdictions offer important...

.... Before Congress passed ERISA, federal law gave employers and unions great discretion in the design and operation of employee benefit plans. Most importantly, firms and unions could and often did establish pension plans that placed employees at great risk for not receiving any retirement benefits...

...This chapter discusses the rise of Consumer Protection Acts (CPAs) and the changes it brought to both state and federal regulatory regimes. It presents an empirical perspective on the new era of consumer protection and the differences between consumer protection under state and federal law...

...The most commonly cited characteristic of American federalism is ‘dual federalism’. This refers to constitutionally delegated powers for the federal government and reserve powers for the states, with each level administering its own policies. In case of conflict, federal law is supreme so long...

... Medicaid election law election administration voter registration absentee ballots federalism local government state government federal law Elections Clause voting rights This chapter discusses federal election laws that tend not to receive much attention: federal election administration laws...

... as the basis for broad, inherent executive powers in the foreign policy realm. Most of its references to the unitary executive, however, are in the more conventional and limited context of the president's power to supervise the execution of federal law by removing and directing subordinates. One question many...

... raised by waging war could be dealt with more effectively by applying the law of war rather than trying to maintain the tattered fiction that their armies were just enforcing Federal law. Jackson Andrew Lincoln Abraham Nullification Crisis Washington George Whiskey Rebellion Calhoun John C Federal...

... Act ERISA federal law Investment Advisers Act 1940 Sitkoff Robert H Great Crash 1929 Hung Angela A Laby Arthur B U S Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Labine Lawrence M Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC Tuch Andrew F...

... Minneapolis city council Reuben Youngdahl U.S. Capitol Congress federal law fair employment Hubert Humphrey and the rest of Minneapolis spent the final night of 1945 celebrating the first New Year’s Eve since the world war had ended and he was elected mayor. Nobody was deterred by the temperature...

... behavioral risk factors stem cell research public health practice public health law federal law state law public health agencies Since the Human Genome Project began in 1990, our understanding of the contributions of genetics to health and disease has increased substantially. Announcements of new...

...Linguistic analysis was used in a case involving the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) Program’s investigation of an American company manufacturing helicopters for the military. The owner was charged with violating federal laws relating to the expenditure of government funding by defrauding...

...‐Save Merchandising Co v Consumers Distr Co Wright Moore Corp v Ricoh Corp conflict of laws contract law federal law choice-of-law clauses This chapter focuses on the legal treatment of choice of law to illustrate one important function of choice‐of‐law clauses: predictability. Without...

... to be initiated by Congress rather than the state governments, why state uniform laws do not provide a solution to the problems addressed by choice of law, and why a statute is necessary to provide needed clarity and predictability for contracting parties. exit‐affected interest groups federal law law markets...

... Second Restatement on Conflict of Laws state courts Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 CAFA class‐action lawsuits federal law incorporation litigation havens state laws territorial principle uniform laws cross‐listing Europe private law public law law market mandatory rules federal law...

... Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination University of Michigan Law School globalization states international legal affairs international law federal law foreign policy process American governmental system As its name suggests, the United States was founded as a union...

...This chapter provides an overview regarding the federalization of corporate governance as an evolutionary process. From this perspective, the chapter examines both state and federal law that impact corporate governance. As the chapter explains, from a historical perspective, the states emerged...

..., Congress enacted laws making resident noncitizens deportable. Just as important, Congress began constructing institutions that would enable the federal government to turn the growing law of deportation into a reality on the ground. Today, deportation occupies much of the field of federal law enforcement...

...This chapter covers Dorothy Wright Nelson’s impact on federal law over four decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It shows how she was always looking out for the “underdog,” those who were poor, excluded, or less powerful and always cautious regarding unfair government...

..., this deed must be signed in the presence of a notary. (a) Austria is a civil law country. This chapter focuses on the local system of Austria—a civil law country. It describes the federal law of Austria, The Austrian General Civil Code (Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB)), which provides...