But judging sharia law on that basis would be like judging Christianity on a couple of chapters of the Old Testament, he added.

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Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.

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Also of no interest to Israel's international legal superstar is the fact that the institution set to do the judging is politically stacked against Israel, and that the Islamic bloc-dominated "international community" redefined international law for the purposes of the ICC to make all Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines criminal.

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The most revealing line of inquiry may be about her views on the use of foreign and international law when judging cases.

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Judging by the way it was announced, and the fact that the committee will not be set up by law and will be purely consultative, the government is not keen to give it much importance.

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