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Promoting Women's Rights, Hiding the Empire: Marie‐Hélène Lefaucheux, an Imperialist Woman at the United Nations

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 795-810, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This contribution examines the role of Marie‐Hélène Lefaucheux, the French representative in the UN Commission on the Status of Women between 1948 and 1953. By focusing on Lefaucheux's activism and connection with the French government, this article intends to analyse how French post‐imperial policy carried out by reformist women's ...
Anna Nasser
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The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 24-38, May 2023., 2023
Abstract This article builds on anthropological research on bureaucratic inscription as a power‐laden process to explore the craft of document translation in contexts of immigration legal advocacy. In a legal climate characterized by suspicion and resource scarcity, immigrants who seek to regularize their status in the United States face steep ...
Susan Bibler Coutin, Véronique Fortin
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Basotho blankets: ownership and appropriation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 124-144, March 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines claims of ownership and appropriation of Basotho blankets. Ingrained in the ritual and mundane reproduction of life among the Basotho people of Lesotho, the luminous blankets and their story have enticed many to deal in them.
Tuulikki Pietilä
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Law‐books, concomitant texts and ethnically framed legal pluralism on the fringes of post‐Carolingian Europe: northern Italy and Catalonia around 1000

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022
Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
wiley   +1 more source

Sept ans après le Rana Plaza: des initiatives transnationales novatrices et l'ébauche d'un nouveau traité

open access: yesRevue internationale du Travail, Volume 159, Issue 4, Page 607-634, December 2020., 2020
Résumé Après le drame du Rana Plaza, plusieurs initiatives intéressantes ont fait évoluer le droit transnational du travail. Certaines, soutenues par l'OIT, ont été plutôt efficaces, sans toutefois parvenir à transformer durablement le secteur du prêt‐à‐porter, où les pratiques d'achat des marques mondiales empêchent d'investir dans la sécurité et la ...
Anne TREBILCOCK
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Limitations on Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements Based on Applicable Law and the Identity of the Carrier in Cargo Claim Disputes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The article demonstrates through an analysis of the limitations on choice of forum or arbitration agreements following the invalidity of a choice of law clause included in a charter party and/or a bill of lading (B/L). It is equally difficult enforcing a
Echebarria Fernández, J.
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Préface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
4 pages."L'obligation d'auto-contrôle des entreprises en droit européen de la sécurité alimentaire" - Ouvrage issu des travaux de thèse pour l'obtention du doctorat de droit privé de Marlen León Guzmán, éd.
Collart Dutilleul, François
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Kształtowanie się polskiego systemu prawnego w pierwszych latach II Rzeczypospolitej

open access: yesCzasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1969
L’État polonais s’est formé sur les territoires qui étaient sous la domination de la législature russe, allemande, autrichienne et hongroise (sur de petites étendues de la région de Spisz et d’Orawa).
Zbigniew Radwański
doaj   +1 more source

Problèmes actuels en droit international privé congolais liés à l’abrogation de l’article 915 de la loi 87-010

open access: yesRecht in Afrika, 2018
The Congolese Code Civil Livre I (Civil Code Book I) was adopted in 1895. Although its material scope was confined to family law, it encompassed the most important conflict of laws provisions in Congolese private international law. When the new Congolese
Jean-Michel Kumbu Ki Ngimbi   +1 more
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Global Legal Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Some challenges of legal globalization closely resemble those formulated earlier for legal pluralism: the irreducible plurality of legal orders, the coexistence of domestic state law with other legal orders, the absence of a hierarchically superior ...
Michaels, Ralf
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