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Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for regulatory and administrative law cases. By emphasizing how the Solicitor General affects cases that the Supreme Court decides, Cohen and Spitzer's findings confirm that administrative law's emphasis on lower appellate court decisions is not misplaced. Some say that D.C. Circuit cases carry equal-if not more-precedential weight than Supreme Court decisions in resolving administrative law issues. Cohen and Spitzer use positive political theory to provide a novel explanation for some of this bias towards circuit court decisions in defining the rule of law in administrative law practice and scholarship. However, this Comment argues that what Cohen and Spitzer's empirical finding of "government litigant advantage" means more generally for the rule of law in the regulatory context requires further elaboration.

ASEAN's decision to accelerate the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 based on the Cebu Declaration, 2007. ASEAN then create a blueprint that describes the steps that must be reached in the AEC in 2015 such as the elimination of taxes and tariffs based on sectors which have been agreed, and all the factors of production such as labor and capital are allowed to move freely crossed the line of ten member countries through the common market. In the field of investment, ASEAN has an ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) to conduct a review of the Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA) and ASEAN Investment Guarantee Agreement (IGA). The establishment of ACIA is to encourage a more liberal investment environment, transparent, competitive and facilitative. Indonesia has been preparing the investment regime under ASEAN for example by creating a variety of legal instruments to further open the influx of foreign investment and ensure equal treatment of foreign investors to domestic investors as desired by the ACIA. The problem today is that besides the existence of ACIA as regional investment agreements under the ASEAN there is also a multilateral investment agreement under the WTO (TRIMs). In most small scale there is also Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). That condition is still added to the national investment regimes of each country, including for example the Indonesian national investment laws. Based on the above, this paper will examine the ASEAN agreement on investment (ACIA) and the Indonesia national legal arrangements. Then it will also examine Indonesian Government policy on BIT with respect to the ACIA. The purpose of this study was to explain the relevance of Indonesia's national investment law harmonization with ASEAN Agreement and to determine the relevance of the BIT with the ACIA.

The relationship between anarchy and the law is, to say the least, an uncomfortable one. The so-called 'classical' anarchist position – in all its heterogeneous tendencies – is, usually, characterised by a total opposition against the law. However and despite its invaluable contribution and the ever-pertinent critique of the state of affairs, this 'classical' anarchist position needs to be re-examined and rearticulated if it is to pose an effective nuisance to the current (and much complex) mechanisms of domination and the oppression of dogmatism and dominance of the law. Taking into account the aforementioned challenges, in this article, I examine and develop two notions of the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze, namely that of the institution and that of the nomos of the nomads. In doing so, I aim to think anew the relationship between anarchy and the law and, ultimately, to point towards an ethico-political account, of what I shall call an an-archic nomos which escapes(or, at least, tries to) the dogmatism and "archist" mentality of the law.