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Potential common law liability for privately provided flood defences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Public bodies have no statutory duty to provide flood defences and do not have funds available to meet all requests for them. This had led to recognition that flood prevention is not something to be left to others and there is now encouragement to ...
Wynn, P
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The role of formal social networks in mitigating age-related mental stress among older Nigerians living in poverty: Insights from social capital theory

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health
As Nigeria’s aging population increases, older adults living in poverty face growing threats to their psychological well-being. This study examines the role of formal social networks such as government programs, non-governmental organizations and faith ...
Sunkanmi Folorunsho   +2 more
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Authority in the common law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Copyright @ 2011 The Author.No abstract ...
Jaffey, P
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English common law versus German <em>Systemdenken?</em><br>Internal versus external approaches

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2011
This article compares the 'systematic method' of continental German private law with the common law method. It starts out by discussing the characteristics of a systematic approach, its application to European private law as well as its methodological ...
Karl Riesenhuber
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The Teaching of Procedure Across Common Law Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
What difference does the teaching of procedure make to legal education, legal scholarship, the legal profession, and civil justice reform? This first of four articles on the teaching of procedure canvasses the landscape of current approaches to the ...
Bamford, David   +3 more
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Sosa, Customary International Law, and the Continuing Relevance of Erie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Ten years ago, the conventional wisdom among international law academics was that customary international law (CIL) had the status of self-executing federal common law to be applied by courts without any need for political branch authorization.
Bradley, Curtis A.   +2 more
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Evidentiary Rules in International Arbitration – A Comparative Analysis of Approaches and the Need for Regulation

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2015
The article discusses the procedure of taking evidence in international commercial arbitration from the perspective of balancing different legal cultures and values.
Anna Magdalena Kubalczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Electoral Offenses in The Common Law System

open access: yesAcademicus International Scientific Journal, 2013
Electoral behavior is a new element in the political analysis of democracy in Albania. Distinctive features of the Albanian transition distinguish other models of the former communist countries, as well as significantly differ with Western models and ...
Vladimir Mulaj
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INTESTATE HEIR LAW ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE TWELVE TABLES

open access: yesPravo, 2019
The text of the Law of Twelve Tables was passed in 451 and 450 BC. It was displayed in the Forum, but the original bronze plates were not preserved through the Roman history.
Danijela Kovačević
doaj   +1 more source

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