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Hard Cases and Hard Law

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1974
To the Editor.— The medical profession is under attack—hard cases—and unless it cleans its own house, the public will do so for it—bad law. I want to clarify, if possible, the scrambling of the use of the aphorism, in which "hard cases" means hard because of judicial sympathy for one of the parties, and in which "bad law" means a precedent that, if ...
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Hard Natural Law

2010
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Soft or Hard Law

International Organizations Law Review, 2014
Historically, international regimes regulating maritime transport have aimed to develop uniform rules. However, these rules are relatively static and have been implemented differently based on different national understandings in a de-centralised, State-based manner.
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Hard Law or Soft Law—Does it Matter?

2018
The European Court of Human Rights takes both hard law and soft law seriously, especially when it is necessary to adapt the wording of the European Convention on Human Rights to changed conditions in European societies and to explore what is called the ‘European consensus’.
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Global Health Law: Between Hard and Soft Law

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
AbstractThe field of global health law encompasses both “hard” law treaties and “soft” law policies that shape global health norms. Transitioning from “international health law” to “global health law and policy,” global health policymakers have increasingly looked to soft law instruments to address public health needs in a rapidly globalizing world ...
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Moore's Law: A Hard Act to Follow

Computer, 2019
Moore's law was the exponential improvement path for semiconductors that fueled the computer revolution and enormous worldwide growth. It's a hard act to follow, but there are three new followon trends that seem just as interesting.
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International Soft Law, Hard Law, and Coherence

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A rule of law is a norm coupled with coercive power. International soft law is only the norm. There is a vast number of such non-coercive norms, and many recent papers have been preoccupied with their apparent normative tilt toward respect for human rights and democracy.
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The Meyer Law for Hardness Tests

Nature, 1950
THE indentation test, made by forcing an unde-formable ball into the test piece, of which the Brinell test is the most extended form, is governed by an empirical relation between load and diameter, P = a dn, due to Meyer.
EMILIO JIMENO, JOSE TERRAZA
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“A Hard Law at Best”:

Controversy surrounded the federal tobacco tax during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Anti-tax sentiment was strongest during the 1880s, as the revival of import revenue following the Panic of 1873 obviated revenue from tobacco taxes.
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Family law in hard times

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2011
This special issue was originally designed to give an accessible account of recent research findings and comment in family law to facilitate informed discussion of the final report of the Family Ju...
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