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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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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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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 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
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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
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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
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Former British Colonies: The Constructive Role of African Courts in the Development of Private International Law

open access: yesUniversity of Bologna Law Review, 2022
Significant strides have been made in efforts to facilitate the resolution of international disputes in Africa. However, cross-border issues that concern private litigants have remained challenging.
Pontian Okoli
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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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Le contrôle plurinormatif des gangs de rue : contributions des études sur la délinquance des élites à la compréhension de la judiciarisation de la criminalité de rue

open access: yesCriminologie, 2016
Edwin Sutherland a été l’un des premiers à remettre en question l’association entre pauvreté et criminalité qui dominait le champ criminologique au début du xxe siècle.
João Velloso
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Incorporating Common Law into the Constitution of Canada: Egale v. Canada and the Status of Marriage

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal, 2003
Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada raise complicated questions about the relationship between the common law and the Constitution.
Mark D. Walters
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