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Case Law of the Supreme Courts in Post-Soviet Legal Systems
Law: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2018 The article is dedicated to introduction of case law of the supreme courts in post-Soviet legal systems and the issues thereof. The author analyzes the means of unifying judicial practice by regulatory explanations of the supreme courts in Soviet legal ...
Nazar Stetsyk
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Teaching legal ethics at the open university – avoiding the pitfalls of formalism [PDF]
, 2015 This paper will reflect on some of the pedagogical and philosophical issues that arise when teaching ethics to law students. It will begin by explaining the demands made by the legal professional bodies regarding the teaching of legal ethics in England ...
McFaul, Hugh
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The MNC as an Agent of Change for Host-Country Institutions: FDI and Corruption [PDF]
, 2006 Most empirical research examines how the institutional environment of corruption shapes the behavior of MNCs. In this study, we would like to highlight the other side of the picture: how the presence of MNC may shape the institutional environment of ...
Kwok, Chuck, Tadesse, Solomon
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers mental and poetic “maps” of London in their respective relationships to Harry Beck's famous 1930s “circuit‐diagram” map of the underground railway system. This iconic image distorts and radically stylizes London geography; thus, it functions as a tool for planning individual travel itineraries but leads to a ...
Craig Melhoff
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the historical trajectory of public administration (PA), bureaucratic and post‐bureaucratic models have competed and coexisted in unstable relations. Recent studies have put forward the idea that those models constitute two poles of the paradox.
Marta Ingaggiati +3 more
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Contract enforcement, litigation, and economic development [PDF]
, 2010 This paper introduces a model of litigation in a growth framework. Investors use litigation to enforce their financial contracts with entrepreneurs. A contest ensues in which both agents hire lawyers to increase their probability of winning the trial ...
Massenot, Baptiste
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On the Ambiguities of Laclauian Populist Leadership
Constellations, EarlyView.
Riku Kusumoto
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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract Recent bilateral and plurilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) increasingly incorporate climate‐related provisions, signalling a potential convergence of international trade and climate law. This trend goes beyond defensive provisions seeking to avoid conflicts between the two legal regimes, such as exceptions recognising climate change as
Andreas Buser
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Hart’s Formalist Critic and the Judicial Interpretation of Law
EudaimoniaIn the 19th century developed formalism, a theory of legal reasoning and interpretation devoted to the claim that judges discover and apply law without ever creating it.
Marija Vojisavljević
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Kant Between Jusnaturalism and Legal Positivism: The Grouding and the Structure of Law
Revista Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito, 2016 This work outlines Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) philosophy of law, discussing its framing within jusnaturalism or legal positivism. Hence, it analyzes the contrast between the grouding of law in Kant, strongly marked by the idea of freedom as legitimizing
Gustavo da Encarnação Galvão França
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