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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Basic Concepts of European Private Law

open access: yesEuropean Review of Private Law, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to develop a small set of basic legal concepts in terms of which the private law of European legal systems can be expressed. The concepts should not reflect the law of any particular system, and should for this reason be suitable as a tertium comparationis for comparative law.
Brouwer, B., Hage, J.
openaire   +4 more sources

Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Recent Shift from the Passive to the Active Consumer

open access: yesAustrian Law Journal, 2015
ENGLISH: The debate on the protection of consumers in cross - border settings has flared up repeatedly since the introduction of the consumer protection rules of the Brussels I and Rome I Regulations.
Thomas Thiede, Judith Schacherreiter
doaj  

Private Law and the European Constitutionalisation of Values [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
According to the CFREU, the EU is founded on the general values such as values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity. In addition, the TEU refers to a more political set of foundational values, ie respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

European private law & intersectionality: three strategies

open access: yesEuropean Law Open
In this paper we identify and discuss three different strategies for taking up intersectionality in the space of European private law, ie, liberal ideal theories of social and private law justice, liberal nonideal theories of reparation, and private law ...
Martijn W Hesselink   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Legal support of the rights of the child and the gestational courier in the context of the fourth generation of human rights in Ukraine

open access: yesRevista Jurídica Portucalense
The permissiveness of Ukrainian legislation toward surrogate motherhood makes Ukraine one of the world’s centers for surrogacy. The paper discusses the solution to the issue of ensuring the implementation of human reproductive rights in the ...
Viktoria STRELNYK   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individuals and the Enforcement of Competition Law – Recent Development of the Private Enforcement Doctrine in Polish and European Antitrust Law [PDF]

open access: yesYearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2015
The following article focuses on the issue of private enforcement of competition law as one of the key elements of the current European and national debate on the efficiency of competition law. By analyzing this concept, the article aims to determine the
Maciej Gac
doaj  

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