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Journal of Education and Teaching, 2023 One of the challenges in secondary schools today is infringements on students’ rights, in a tortious way that may also constitute breach of the Child’s Right Act of 2003 in Nigeria.
Timothy Olugbenga Ajadi +1 more
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Intersections of judicial collective redress and corporate restructuring law:
European Insolvency and Restructuring JournalTwo rapidly developing fields of private law - corporate restructuring law on the one hand and judicial collective redress on the other - may intersect.
Arwin Tavakolnia
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The tort/contract boundary: great divide or grand illusion [PDF]
, 1997 This thesis considers the difference between contract and the tort of negligence. It compares the traditional view of the distinction with a more contemporary view, and concludes that the two areas of law are becoming interrelated.
Branson, David J.
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
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The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
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Private to Public: Deterrent Effects of Bans on Confidential Settlements
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nondisclosure agreements are common in the settlement of legal disputes but are controversial as they suppress information that could prevent harm to others. But until the 2017 #MeToo movement, there had been little legislative effort to prohibit the practice in any context, and consequently no evidence on whether public disclosure of harms ...
Blair Druhan Bullock, Joni Hersch
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Uncertain Causation in Tort Law [PDF]
, 2017 The article analyses the contribution made to the debate on causal uncertainty by the volume 'Uncertain Causation in Tort Law', edited by Miquel Martín-Casals and Diego M Papayannis. After a brief sketch of the contents of the volume, the paper explores
INFANTINO, MARTA
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2019 In this contribution the influence of reasonableness on the element of conduct in the South African law of delict will be analysed and compared with the requirement of some form of conduct in English tort law, American tort law and the French law of ...
Raheel Ahmed
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