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Legal Facts and Reasons for Action: Between Deflationary and Robust Conceptions of Law’s Reason-Giving Capacity
(Springer, 2019)This chapter considers whether legal requirements can constitute reasons for action independently of the merits of the requirement at hand. While jurisprudential opinion on this question is far from uniform, sceptical (or ... -
Legal Form, Commodities and Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis
(Routledge Cavendish, 2013-12)This chapter offers a feminist reading of Pashukanis’s legal theory as a contribution to critical evaluation of the relationship between legality, commodification and gender. Contemporary feminist interests in the relationship ... -
A Legal Framework for Net Zero Aligned Insurance Products
(University of Connecticut School of Law Hartford, Connecticut, 2023-05-01)This paper examines how the contractual framework of existing insurance products for consumers and small businesses can be adjusted to help them to reduce their net GHG emissions, and thereby facilitate the transition to ... -
Legal Perspectives on Drug Trafficking
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-12-27)This Research Handbook on Transnational Crime is an interdisciplinary, up-to-date guide to this growing field, written by an international cohort of leading scholars and experts. -
Legal Questions Concerning the Temporal Applications of Treaties in International Investment Arbitration Cases
(Kluwer Law International B.V., 2022-08-25)This book is essential reading for a variety of stakeholders, including arbitrators, counsel, scholars and government officials, who will benefit from its in-depth and practical analysis of the VCLT’s relevance to and ... -
Legal responses to religious diversity (or to cultural diversity)?
Today, we are in a position to tackle in much more interesting ways the question of religious diversity and how that relates to law. If we ‘naively’ formulate the title of the present chapter into a problem about how state ... -
Legal Rules as a Bias-Counteracting Device
In this paper, I argue that one of the key aspects of law’s conduct-guiding role is to serve as a corrective device against several systematic biases present in the settings of activity that law typically regulates. Following ... -
(Legal) uncertainty: Takaful between English common law and Shari'a law
(Qatar University, 2017-01) -
Legitimacy in Settlement of Disputes in International Environmental Law: From Classical to Non-compliance Procedures
In this chapter, Malgosia Fitzmaurice examines the procedures and mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of environmental disputes. This chapter deals with the issue of classical settlement of environmental disputes and ... -
Lessons for the government from Miller I and the Scottish Continuity Bill Case
(Queen Mary University of London - School of Law, 2021)In the United Kingdom (UK), tensions between the executive and the judiciary reignited recently when the government launched a thinly veiled ‘attack’ on the courts in an ‘Independent Review of Administrative Law’ (IRAL). ... -
Lessons that Europe can learn from the US patent assertion entity phenomenon
(2015-10-13)This paper investigates the patent assertion entities (PAEs) problem in Europe. First, it argues that PAEs should be not as active in Europe as it is in the USA simply because European inventors infringe less. They infringe ... -
Life after Lisbon: EU Asylum Policy as a Factor of Migration Control
(Hart Publishing, 2014)