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Los obiter dictum como discursos del poder. Estudio a partir del caso Fernández de Kirchner

JURÍDICAS CUC, 2023
La actividad judicial, diseñada constitucionalmente como un mero control técnico, se ha modificado gradualmente por el control de constitucionalidad, la judicialización de la política y el activismo judicial, aspectos bien estudiados por los necesarios equilibrios de los poderes públicos.
Ricardo Sebastian Piana, Martín Arévalo   +1 more
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The future of dispute resolution in international trade

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 1336-1356, September 2025.
Abstract Given ongoing dysfunction of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body, the focus of this article is on the future of trade dispute resolution, with evaluation of two questions: (i) What is the current status of WTO dispute resolution as compared to that conducted through existing preferential trade agreements (PTAs)? and (ii) What are the
Ian Sheldon, Daniel C. K. Chow
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CONCEITOS FUNDAMENTAIS DO SISTEMA DE PRECEDENTES E FUNDAMENTAÇÃO DAS DECISÕES JUDICIAIS

Revista Acadêmica, 2020
a compreensão do sistema de precedentes exige que o estudioso conheça alguns conceitos fundamentais. As noções de ratio decidendi e obiter dictum são fundamentais. Da mesma forma, conhecer o caráter evolutivo dos conceitos de precedente, jurisprudência e
Murilo Teixeira Avelino
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The Defence of Public Necessity

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 973-997, September 2025.
This article challenges the idea that public necessity must be a complete defence to trespass liability. It identifies and distinguishes three distinct categories of public necessity: two afford justifications for interfering with person or property, whereas the third is better understood as an excuse.
Samuel Beswick
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A Tale of Too Many Doctrines: Supervening Impossibility and the Sale of Goods

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 433-466, May 2025.
Contracts for the sale of goods contain three default rules addressing the problem of supervening impossibility: sections 7 and 20 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the doctrine of frustration. This article uses a legal historical method to examine why this is the case and what the relationship between these rules is.
Chathuni Jayathilaka
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Financing a restructuring in the Netherlands after IHC v. Rabobank

European Insolvency and Restructuring Journal
This case-note examines the Dutch Supreme Court’s ('Hoge Raad') landmark decision in IHC v. Rabobank, its second ruling to date on the interpretation the Act on Court Confirmation of Extrajudicial Restructuring Plans (WHOA).
Frank Verstijlen
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An empty victory? Shell v. Milieudefensie et al 2024, the legal obligations of carbon majors, and the prospects for future climate litigation action

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 270-278, April 2025.
Abstract In 2021, the Hague District Court ruled in favour of several non‐governmental organisations in a climate lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell Plc. It obliged Shell to reduce its CO2 emissions resulting from its global operations by 45%, relative to 2019 levels, by 2030.
Bengt Johannsen, Louis J. Kotzé, Chiara Macchi   +2 more
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The Scope of the Medical Exception in Criminal Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 237-266, March 2025.
Many medical procedures involve the causation of serious injury by doctors to their patients. Yet when accepted as ‘proper medical treatment’, doctors incur no criminal liability for their actions, per the ‘medical exception’ in criminal law. This exception is well established; its scope much less so.
Lisa Forsberg
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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic

The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 619-632, November 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on the sunset clause of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). The ECT is a multilateral investor‐state arbitration treaty which allows for the use of investor‐state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals to arbitrate challenges arising from shifts in energy policy that lead to a loss in profits for relevant energy companies.
Eoin Jackson
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