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A Path Not Taken: Hans Kelsen\u27s Pure Theory of Law in the Land of Legal Realists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This Essay is a contribution to a volume on the influence of Hans Kelsen’s legal theory in over a dozen countries. The Essay offers four explanations for the failure of Kelsen’s pure theory of law to take hold in the United States.
Telman, D. A. Jeremy
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Adaptive Twisting Metamaterials

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces torque‐controlled twisting metamaterials as a transformative platform for adaptive crashworthiness. By combining multiscale predictive modeling with experimental validation on additively manufactured gyroids, it demonstrates tunable stiffness, collapse stress, and energy absorption.
Mattia Utzeri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Logic and Limits of Environmental Criminal Law in the Global Setting: Brazil and the United States--Comparisons, Contrasts, and Questions in Search of a Robust Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Strict but arguably unfair and counterproductive systems of criminal environmental law and enforcement exist in both the United States and Brazll in the twenty-first century.
Blomquist, Robert F.
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Materials and System Design for Self‐Decision Bioelectronic Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights how self‐decision bioelectronic systems integrate sensing, computation, and therapy into autonomous, closed‐loop platforms that continuously monitor and treat diseases, marking a major step toward intelligent, self‐regulating healthcare technologies.
Qiankun Zeng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Choice-Based Perspective of Choice-of-Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article offers an innovative basis for the choice-of-law question: the Choice-Based Perspective (CBP). The main argument is that there exists an alternative rights-based understanding of choice-of-law to that which is presently known as the vested ...
Peari, Sagi
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Polemika między komunitarianizmem a kontraktualistami jako nowa odsłona sporu między iusnaturalizmem a pozytywizmem prawniczym

open access: yesPoliteja, 2013
The controversy between communitarians and contract theorists as a new scene in the dispute between the natural law theory and legal positivism The Author convinces that the dispute between legal positivism and the natural law theory takes place not ...
Maciej Chmieli
doaj   +1 more source

A Self‐Healing Permanent Magnet Putty for Soft Robot Skins With Force Sensing and Functional Recovery

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Permanent magnet putty (PMP) integrates high‐coercivity NdFeB particles with a dynamic polyborosiloxane–Ecoflex matrix, achieving rapid self‐healing (90% mechanical recovery in 10 s) and magnetic recovery within 20 min. With twice the sensitivity of commercial putties, PMP enables precise 5–30 N force detection and discrimination between pressing and ...
Ruotong Zhao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Order, Political Community, and the Search for a Eurpoean Public Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The shaping of international order, and the place of concepts such as law and community within that order, has emerged as one of the most pressing issues in contemporary legal and political thought.
Ward, Ian
core   +1 more source

Compliant Pneumatic Feet with Real‐Time Stiffness Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A compliant pneumatic foot with real‐time variable stiffness enables humanoid robots to adapt to changing terrains. Using onboard vision and pressure control, the foot modulates stiffness within each gait cycle, reducing impact forces and improving balance. The design, cast in soft silicone with embedded air chambers and Kevlar wrapping, offers durable,
Irene Frizza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Legal Doctrine and Philosophy: Aspects of Interaction

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2009
Article is devoted to analysis of relation between international legal theory and philosophy. Author asserts that moral, political and legal philosophy is having a great significance in international legal doctrine.
M. V. Shugurov
doaj   +1 more source

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