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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Biomedical Patents at the Supreme Court: A Path Forward [PDF]
, 2013 Although most would argue that software patents pose a bigger challenge, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently focused on biomedical patents. Two of the Court\u27s recent decisions scaling back such patents, Mayo v. Prometheus and AMP v.
Rai, Arti K.
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Regulatory Taking: A Contract Approach [PDF]
, 1988 This Article begins by defining the parameters of the fifth amendment\u27s taking clause. The Article then reviews the various tests used in determining whether governmental action constitutes a taking, and discusses the recent Supreme Court decisions ...
Heldt, Rebecca L., Lipsker, Ross B.
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The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In Waller‐Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc, the Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, the significant question of whether banks were put on constructive notice of potential undue influence in so‐called ‘hybrid’ scenarios. ‘Hybrid’ scenarios are those in which loan monies are advanced to a couple partly for their joint benefit and partly for one ...
Chris Bevan
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Jurnal JurisprudencePurpose of the Study: to of the Supreme Court Justice in deciding transfer pricing disputes related to the payment of management fees in Indonesia so that tax authorities and taxpayers understand its implementation to prevent similar cases. Methodology:
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Functional Analysis of the Plain-Error Rule [PDF]
, 1983 In this article, I attempt to do two things at once. First, I attempt to analyze the Supreme Court\u27s jurisdiction to conduct plain-error review of state court decisions.
Spann, Girardeau A
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The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Taylor v Jones involved liability for causing damage to a building that had a pre‐existing defect. The defendant was in principle liable for the cost of repairing the damage. However, the Court of Appeal denied liability for the cost of repairing the pre‐existing defect even though such repair was necessary to restore the building to the state it would
Sirko Harder
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