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On Environmental Quality Standards and Finding of Liability for Environmental Pollution Torts
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2019 Though bearing technical and legal attributes, environmental quality standards are neither rules nor regulatory documents. With the binding force coming from the legal norms where they are cited, environmental quality standards are designed and ...
You Mingqing
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Dos Mil Tres MilThis paper contrasts Colombian Supreme Court decisions from 2016 to 2018 with curren U.S. trends on proximate cause or scope of liability included in the Third Restatement of Torts.
Daniel Vásquez Vega
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Marine migration influences mercury accumulation in anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Mercury (Hg) is a globally distributed toxic metal present in northern natural environments that biomagnifies in food webs and bioaccumulates in apex predator fish, such as Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)—an iteroparous species with a circumpolar distribution. Arctic char exhibit a variety of life history types, with the migrating, anadromous
Isabel R. Hilgendag +6 more
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, 2008 "Provides a comprehensive overview of the law of torts for law students. The legislative reform brought about by the IPP Committee recommendations are included and commented upon." -- Libraries ...
McGlone, Frances, Stickley, Amanda
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
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Tilburg Law Review, 2015 In this article, the interpretation methods used by the United States Supreme Court are studied. We will discuss the interpretation methods used by the Court in the Obamacare case, in abortion cases and in Alien Torts Statute cases.
Siel Demeyere +2 more
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Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
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The Torts Curriculum: An Overview
, 1973 I sometimes wonder whether the first year torts course is destined to survive the onslaught of no-fault upon the field of personal injuries, and those of the Supreme Court upon the fields of defamation and privacy. And now, as if that were not enough, it
James, Fleming
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