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Authority in the Common Law [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The view that the common law is a body of rules laid down by the courts is, for some of its proponents, implicit in the nature of the law as a system of authoritative guidance, but it has implications that are unattractive in principle and contrary to the conventional understanding of legal reasoning in the common law.
Jaffey, P
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Practical challenges in data‐driven interpolation: Dealing with noise, enforcing stability, and computing realizations

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView., 2023
Summary In this contribution, we propose a detailed study of interpolation‐based data‐driven methods that are of relevance in the model reduction and also in the systems and control communities. The data are given by samples of the transfer function of the underlying (unknown) model, that is, we analyze frequency‐response data.
Quirin Aumann, Ion Victor Gosea
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The Common Law and Finance [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This is the introduction to four lectures published together in the November 2019 issue of Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. The lectures were part of a special series, "The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench" held in Oxford in 2018-2019. In the series, senior judges from four jurisdictions (Hong Kong, Australia, the UK and
Getzler, J, van Zwieten, K
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The Global Laboratory of Investment Law Reform Alternatives

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2018
There are two ways of thinking about institutional choice in the context of multilateral investment law reform. One starts from abstract principles, asking what policy goal investment law is supposed to achieve and what institutional choice most ...
Wolfgang Alschner
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Nature Versus the Common Law

open access: yesClio@Themis, 2021
This article recovers a debate, played out over the course of a century, in courts across the « common law world », over whether nature had normative force in water law. It explores areas of water law, such as the extent of public ownership in rivers and
David B. Schorr
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From Research “Involving” Humans to Research “Affecting” Humans: A Proposal for a Principled Expansion of Research Ethics’ Jurisdiction to Create Traction for a Philosophy of Technology

open access: yesLaws, 2014
The field of research ethics offers a new approach to addressing the issues created by the unchecked development of technology. Research ethics could make a contribution, both substantively and procedurally, to help create a framework for reviewing the ...
Madelaine Saginur
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The evolution of sufficiency in common law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The requirement of disclosure in the patent specification is commonly presented as an essential arm of the patent bargain. This paper tests the assumption that disclosure requirements in a number of common law jurisdictions continue to reflect this and ...
Thambisetty, Sivaramjani
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Crowdsourcing Sexual Objectification

open access: yesLaws, 2014
This paper analyzes the criminal offence of the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (what some call “revenge porn”). Focussing on the debate currently underway in Canada, it notes that such an offence would fill a grey area in that country’s ...
Carissima Mathen
doaj   +1 more source

Interpretation Rules and Good Faith as Obstacles to the UK\u27s Ratification of the CISG and to the Harmonization of Contract Law in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This essay examines Article 7 of the CISG, the provision on the Convention’s interpretation, through the lenses of both German and English law in order to shed light on interpretative issues in which there are divergent views in common law and civil law ...
Hofmann, Nathalie
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Protected Groups in Refugee Law and International Law

open access: yesLaws, 2019
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (“Refugee Convention”) defines ‘persecution’ based on five enumerated grounds: race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, and political opinion ...
Joseph Rikhof, Ashley Geerts
doaj   +1 more source

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