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Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Administrative Right To Be Free from Sexual Violence? Title IX Enforcement in Historical and Institutional Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
One of the most controversial administrative actions in recent years is the U.S. Department of Education’s campaign against sexual assault on college campuses.
Tani, Karen M.
core   +2 more sources

How do US Adults Who Vape Choose Among Different E‐Cigarette (EC) Models and Cigarettes in Response to Prices and Taxes

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT States continue to impose E‐Cigarette (EC) taxes without clear evidence of the cross‐price elasticities between multiple EC types and between ECs and cigarettes. Moreover, existing literature focused on EC sales or prevalence outcomes instead of consumption units of various EC types.
Shaoying Ma   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medimmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.: A Patent Licensee Does Not Need to Terminate or Breach a License Agreement in Order to Challenge its Validity or Enforceability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. asks whether Article III\u27s restriction on the jurisdiction of the federal courts only to cases and controversies, as required by the actual controversy limitation of the Declaratory Judgment Act, necessitates ...
Ohanian, C. Tyler
core   +1 more source

Insolvency‐related foreign judgements in Nigeria: Contextualising English legal influence and comparative analysis of the UNCITRAL regime

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has produced the most robust international insolvency regime applicable to countries around the world. The Model Law on Cross‐Border Insolvency (1997) is widely accepted and already very popular among African countries.
Pontian N. Okoli
wiley   +1 more source

Brief of Professors William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This case presents the question whether to overrule Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 (1979). That question requires careful attention to the legal status of sovereign immunity and to the Constitution’s effect on it, which neither Hall nor either party has ...
Baude, William, Sachs, Stephen E.
core   +1 more source

Towards climate‐conscious corporate restructuring: A comparative exploration of English and Bhutanese legal frameworks

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
wiley   +1 more source

THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN FEDERAL STATES

open access: yesPravo, 2013
The authors deal with the judicial system and judicial functions from the aspect of the complex state. Their approach is based on the fact that the federation is basically the constitutional and legal state and consequently the court system must be in ...
Vladan S. Perišić   +2 more
doaj  

Leasing of federal geothermal resources [PDF]

open access: yes
Pursuant to the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and the regulations published on December 21, 1973, the first Federal geothermal competitive lease sale was held on January 22, 1974, by the Department of the Interior, offering 33 tracts totalling over 50,000
Stone, R. T.
core   +1 more source

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