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Principles of Identifying the Cause of Events from the Perspective of Imamiyah Jurisprudence and English Law [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2021
Islamic jurists, judges and legal scholars invoke their ‘common sense’ for identifying the cause of an event and according to them, they try to examine the event from the perspective of an ordinary human being and not a philosopher or a scientist ...
Seyed Mostafa Mohaghgegh Damad   +1 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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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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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
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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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La protection des droits de l’homme à l’ère de l’industrie extractive en Afrique

open access: yesCriminologie, 2016
En dépit des richesses minières énormes dont les revenus et autres retombées auraient pu permettre aux États africains de s’acquitter des leurs obligations internationales en matière de protection des droits de la personne, force nous est de constater ...
Pacifique Manirakiza
doaj   +1 more source

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

Designing and Implementing e-Justice Systems: Some Lessons Learned from EU and Canadian Examples

open access: yesLaws, 2014
Access to justice has become an important issue in many justice systems around the world. Increasingly, technology is seen as a potential facilitator of access to justice, particularly in terms of improving justice sector efficiency.
Giampiero Lupo, Jane Bailey
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The Common Law and Finance

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
openaire   +2 more sources

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