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Source: The American Journal of Comparative Law , SPRING 2014, Vol. 62, No. 2
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 VOLUME 62 • NUMBER 2

SPRING 2014

(ISSN 0002-919X)

The American Journal of

COMPARATIV
LAW Editors-in-Chief:
Helge Dedek
James V. Feinerman
Franz Werro

Published by the American Society of Comp

ARTICLES

Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2013 Symeonides

China's Stealth Urban Land Revolution Clarke

Property and Democratic Deliberation di Robilant

Appraising Japan's Appraisal Remedy Koh

Human Dignity in National Constitutions Shulztiner & Carmi

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 Editors-in-Chief : Helge Dedek, James V. Feinerman, Franz Werro
Executive Editorial Board : Luisa Antoniolli, Gary F. Bell, Francesca Bignami, Mauro Bussani,
Donald C. Clarke, Dominique Custos, Tom Ginsburg, Simone Glanert, Máximo Langer,
Ralf Michaels, Álvaro Santos, Walter Stoffel, and Symeon Symeonides
Managing Editor : Jonathan Zimmer
BOARD OF EDITORS

Ron Krotoszyński, Jr. Karen B.Brown Luis Muñiz-Argüelles

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 DIRECTORS
Kenneth M. Rosen Christian N. Okeke Luis Muniz-Argiielles
University of Alabama, School of Law Golden Gate University School of Law University of Puerto Rico
Fernanda Nicola Mark J. Ramseyer School of Law
American University, Washington Harvard University Law School Louise E. Teitz
College of Law Alison W. Conner Roger Williams University
Boris Kozolchyk University of Hawaii, Richardson School of Law
University of Arizona School of Law Richard Hyland
College of Law Nora V. Demleitner Rutgers, State University of New
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School of Law Danie| H Halberstam Salii K. Mehra
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 The American Journal oj
COMPARATIVE LAW
VOLUME LXII SPRING 2014 NUMBER 2

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Choice of Law in the American Courts

in 2013: Twenty-Seventh Annual Survey
Symeon C. Symeonides 223

China's Stealth Urban Land Revolution Donald Clarke 323

Property and Democratic Deliberation:

The Numerus Clausus Principle and
Democratic Experimentalism in Property Law Anna di Ro

Appraising Japan's Appraisal Remedy Alan K. Koh 417

Human Dignity in National Constitutions:

Functions, Promises and Dangers Doron Shulztiner 461
& Guy E. Carmi

BOOKS RECEIVED 491

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