Promoting foreign investment is a goal of many developing nations. Along with the benefits of tha... more Promoting foreign investment is a goal of many developing nations. Along with the benefits of that investment, however, foreign participation in development creates problems such as balance of payments deficits caused by the repatriation of profits earned by the foreign investor. Brazil's profit remittance law is one effort to reconcile these problems. By providingfor the registration of foreign investment and using a system of reinvestment incentives, the Profit Remittance Law seeks to promote foreign investment while avoiding the loss of capital which results when profits are remitted abroad. The author of this article describes and explains the Profit Remittance Law and considers its impact on foreign investment in Brazil. The author then assesses the effectiveness of the law in achieving its goals of encouraging investment and retaining the byproducts of such investment in Brazil.
The article under consideration in this symposium issue, "Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Program... more The article under consideration in this symposium issue, "Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who They Are," by Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar, comes at a critical moment for law schools, especially those below the top tier. Many schools are reducing class size, offering unprecedented financial aid and scholarship packages, and entering a general retrenchment mode. This most recent crisis in law school applications and enrollment (applications are down at some schools by over 30 percent)' has led to an increase in the popularity of Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs for foreign attorneys. The steep rise in the number and variety of law schools with LL.M. programs 2 may be seen, at least in part, as a reaction to the power of the law school ranking system adopted in 1990 by U.S. News and World Report (USN). Even before this crisis, law schools were under pressure to "optimize their ranking by, for example, basing admissions decisions on LSAT scores" and by "spending more money on merit-based scholarships in order to 'buy' students whose LSAT scores [would] raise the school's median." 3 Crucial to
Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como r... more Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como remanescente de quilombo, tem como objetivo discutir como os novos conceitos de quilombo, gerados no processo de reconhecimento jurídico, reconfiguram identidades sociais, num diálogo entre a história, a lei e as práticas culturais. Para tal, o presente artigo questiona teorizações dicotomizadoras, que justapõem uma identidade racial, concebida de forma essencializada, a uma identificação étnica instrumentalizadora, pretensamente construída pela comunidade, com a finalidade de obter terra e recursos.
Promoting foreign investment is a goal of many developing nations. Along with the benefits of tha... more Promoting foreign investment is a goal of many developing nations. Along with the benefits of that investment, however, foreign participation in development creates problems such as balance of payments deficits caused by the repatriation of profits earned by the foreign investor. Brazil's profit remittance law is one effort to reconcile these problems. By providingfor the registration of foreign investment and using a system of reinvestment incentives, the Profit Remittance Law seeks to promote foreign investment while avoiding the loss of capital which results when profits are remitted abroad. The author of this article describes and explains the Profit Remittance Law and considers its impact on foreign investment in Brazil. The author then assesses the effectiveness of the law in achieving its goals of encouraging investment and retaining the byproducts of such investment in Brazil.
The article under consideration in this symposium issue, "Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Program... more The article under consideration in this symposium issue, "Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who They Are," by Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar, comes at a critical moment for law schools, especially those below the top tier. Many schools are reducing class size, offering unprecedented financial aid and scholarship packages, and entering a general retrenchment mode. This most recent crisis in law school applications and enrollment (applications are down at some schools by over 30 percent)' has led to an increase in the popularity of Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs for foreign attorneys. The steep rise in the number and variety of law schools with LL.M. programs 2 may be seen, at least in part, as a reaction to the power of the law school ranking system adopted in 1990 by U.S. News and World Report (USN). Even before this crisis, law schools were under pressure to "optimize their ranking by, for example, basing admissions decisions on LSAT scores" and by "spending more money on merit-based scholarships in order to 'buy' students whose LSAT scores [would] raise the school's median." 3 Crucial to
Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como r... more Este artigo, ao enfocar o processo de reconhecimento de uma comunidade do sertão sergipano como remanescente de quilombo, tem como objetivo discutir como os novos conceitos de quilombo, gerados no processo de reconhecimento jurídico, reconfiguram identidades sociais, num diálogo entre a história, a lei e as práticas culturais. Para tal, o presente artigo questiona teorizações dicotomizadoras, que justapõem uma identidade racial, concebida de forma essencializada, a uma identificação étnica instrumentalizadora, pretensamente construída pela comunidade, com a finalidade de obter terra e recursos.
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