glyph 301: James C. Bennett, Jim, The Anglosphere Challenge . Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News, columnist ... United Arab Emirates, UAE, U.A.E., Dubai International Financial Center ... English Common Law . Anglosphere, network commonwealth ... Middle East, Sharia ... extension of network commonwealths by adoption ... cultual cooperation, mutual assimilation of good solutions and boundary management

Linda Seebach's column, published in the Rocky Mountain News, February 4, 2006, based on an interveiew with Jim Bennett about his book The Anglosphere Challenge, contained the following:

Anglosphere ancestry isn't required; adoption is also a possibility. Bennett's blog, Albion's Seedlings (on the Web at anglosphere.com), linked Friday to a story in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper about Dubai, which has set up a free-trade area governed by English common law, the Dubai International Financial Centre.

"'Under a formal decree of the United Arab Emirates, and local laws signed by the late Ruler of Dubai,' the newspaper reported, 'the two authorities that hold absolute power carved out an area from which they withdrew their own system of laws. The concept is breathtaking: here in DIFC, English common law reigns supreme - and under a British chief justice.'"

"The then crown prince, now the ruler of Dubai, wanted to establish a major financial center, 'that would rival New York, London and Hong Kong, but in a time zone where one had never existed before.'

"'But foreign investors would not be attracted without a regulator they could trust and a legal system on which they could rely.'"

Linda Seebach's entire column may be available at:
http://ww2.scripps.com/cgi-bin/archives/denver.pl?DBLIST=rm06&DOCNUM=2673
(please let me know if this becomes inaccessible. leifsmith *at* explorersfoundation.org
(Linda Seebach is no longer at the Rocky Mountain News)

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entered before July 9, 2006; edited/updated November 26, 2015