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Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2020
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, governments throughout the world have introduced emergency measures that constrain individual freedoms, social and economic rights and global solidarity.
Sharifah Sekalala   +3 more
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Whither the common law derivative action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The common law derivative action was developed as a result of decades of case law in common law jurisdictions. Hong Kong and Singapore continue to retain the common law derivative action within their respective legal frameworks, despite both having ...
Yap, JL
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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

Opting into the common European sales law : how to opt-into, or opt-into at all, in B2C contracts? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aim of this thesis is to find frameworks how to opt-into the Common European Sales Law in B2C contracts. European Commission gave its proposal on the Common European Sales Law (CESL) in 2011, and since it has been widely discussed all over the Europe ...
Lassila, Laura
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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

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

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
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitation of proving the Contractual and non-contractual liability of the professional service providers in Iranian Law by a comparative study of French and Common Law [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق فناوریهای نوین, 2021
The professional service providers’ specialized knowledge and skill versus the service customers’ unfamiliarity with the process of service providing cause difficulties for the injured party in proving the main elements of the contractual and non ...
MohammadKazem Mahtabpour   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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