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Common Constitutional Law [PDF]
, 2004 This essay deals with a branch of New York Times v. Sullivan which appeared to make the question of whether the words were libelous a federal issue. The line of cases ends with Masson v.
Feldman, A. Daniel
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Civil law and common law : Two different paths leading to the same goal
Poredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2001 The aim of this paper was not to judge which legal system is better: civil law or common law. The task of lawyers should not be to defend their legal systems/ but to improve them. Each legal system may have some advantages and deficiencies.
Časlav Pejović
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The Development of the Concept of Contributory Negligence in English Common Law
Utrecht Law Review, 2016 The injured party’s own conduct which has contributed to the damage that he has suffered has been a bar to the recovery of damages for centuries in the common law tradition.
Emanuel G.D. van Dongen +1 more
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CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF THE LAW LE TRADUCTEUR JURIDIQUE FACE À LA MÉTAPHORE
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 Thin skull doctrine, living tree, blue-sky law, clean hands, cloud on title… Les métaphores occupent à l’évidence une place centrale dans le vocabulaire juridique anglais. Comment expliquer le succès de cette figure de style dans le langage de la common
Frédéric HOUBERT
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Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law [PDF]
, 1997 A girl owns a number of Barbie dolls. She makes outfits for them and constructs elaborate scenarios in which they play starring roles. She enacts her dramas in her front yard, where passers-by can easily see. Does she violate the law?
Tushnet, Rebecca
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Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: The Civil Versus Common Law Tradition [PDF]
, 2009 A key issue in the design of a legal system is the choice of the mechanism aggregating citizens ’ preferences over the harshness of punishment. While under Case law appellate judges ’ biases offset one another at the cost of volatility of the law, under ...
Guerriero, C.
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Four Decades of the Journal \u3ci\u3eLaw and Human Behavior\u3c/i\u3e: A Content Analysis [PDF]
, 2018 Although still relatively young, the journal Law and Human Behavior (LHB) has amassed a publication history of more than 1300 full-length articles over four decades. Yet, no systematic analysis of the journal has been done until now. The current research
Brank, Eve M. +4 more
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Inherent Vice as All-Risk Exclusion and its Clarification from Common Law point of view
, 2022 Hoda Asgarian
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]
, 1997 Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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