School of Law: Recent submissions
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How China Built the World’s Biggest Patent Office: The Pressure Driving Mechanism
(Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, 2017-12-05)In 2011 China’s patent office received more patent applications than any other patent office in the world. While explanations for this patent surge focus on some relevant factors such as the use of subsidies for application ... -
The Role and Value of Coherence in Theories of Legal Reasoning
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Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
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Non-performing loans at the dawn of IFRS 9: Regulatory and Accounting Treatment of Asset Quality
(Springer, 2018-03-01)Asset quality is a key indicator of sound banking. However, it is difficult for banking regulators and investors to assess it in the absence of a common, cross-border scheme to classify assets. Currently no standard is ... -
Utopia in the Midst of Dystopia? The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó
(2016-09-01)The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a self-governing community of peasant farmers (‘campesinos’) in Urabá, one of the regions of Colombia where violence by the State, leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries ... -
A Study on Air Transport Liberalisation based on ICAO’s Extant Documents
The need to reduce control over the rules that influence commercial activities resulted in an effort to liberalise the airline industry. Nations that embraced the idea of liberalisation and committed to this cause with ... -
Peace Sign: La Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó
(2017-09-21)This volume considers these questions; firstly what might the study of international law through objects reveal? -
How to fill the international law lacunae in sovereign insolvency in EU law?
(European Central Bank, 2016-12-01)In the twenty-first century sovereign debt problems are not just the domain of emerging market economies. They have also become a feature of the economic environment in a number of developed countries in particular in the ... -
Theory and Values in Socio-legal Studies
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The United Kingdom’s New Opt-Out Class Action: The Unique Perspective of a “Third Generation” Statute
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-10-07)On 1 October 2015, a sea change in English civil procedure occurred, when the UK’s first opt-out class action regime took effect. Its drafting choices occurred against a backdrop of considerable comparative jurisprudence ... -
Common Virtue and the Perspectival Imagination: Adam Smith and Common Law Reasoning
(Mykolas Romeris University, 2017-09-25)This paper considers the similarities between Adam Smith's device of the impartial spectator and the use of perspectival devices in common law reasoning. The paper adopts a reading of Smith's device as one involving the ...