Systems of Land Registration
... As the given definition indicates, land registration deals with interests in land (which in
many societies includes improvements such as buildings and trees). These interests can
be described as the way in which (groups of) people ‘hold’ the land. The particular set of
interests existing in a societ ...
MK
... precise provisions for termination and prohibition of the work of CSOs, which defines the basis for protection from interference. Sanctions provided by LAF are
appropriately formulated, focusing on personal versus collective (organisational) responsibility. Limitations to prohibition and termination ...
Niklas Luhmann`s Theory of Politics and Law
... envisage a universal environment within which all social systems exist, but
a different environment for each system. Modern society, according to
Luhmann, ‘is differentiated into the political susbsystem and its environment,
the economic subsystem and its environment, the scientific system and its
en ...
evaluating the application of eu environmental standards in
... The EBRD has financed a number of environmentally and/or socially harmful projects.10 The
example of the Sakhalin II project shows how crucial it is for all parties involved in investment to
avoid uncertainty about the applicable environmental standards, and to ensure that they are applied
in practi ...
hla hart`s lost essay: discretion and the legal process school
... group of post–New Deal professors, many of whom sat in Hart’s audience, developed a tentative solution to the realists’ challenge: discretion is acceptable in the legal system if it is sufficiently constrained and
responsibly exercised. These “process theorists” accepted the realist
idea that law is ...
The Role of Personal Values in Professional Decisionmaking
... different from, or even in conflict with, common morality?"); David Luban, ed., THE ETHics OF LAWYERS Xiii
(1994) ("The problematic aspect of lawyers' ethics, however, consists in duties (such as demolishing the
truthful witness) that contradictrather than supplement everyday morality."); Luban, LAW ...
Consultation Paper - The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong
... We wish to express our thanks to Mr Michael Napier, CBE
(Member of the Executive Committee) and Mr Robert Musgrove (Chief
Executive) of England’s Civil Justice Council, Professor Michael G Faure of
Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and Professor Dame Hazel Genn of
University College London. T ...
Legal History and Traditions - Ethiopian Legal Brief
... the world. It identifies and explains the central problems those legal traditions
faced; the type of solutions they gave to such problems and the reasons why they
chose those solutions. Identifying the key issues encountered by past legal
systems and the solutions offered thereto is hoped to throw l ...
Making the Law
... In November 2006, a delegation from the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the
Poor visited a teeming open air market (known as the ‘Toi market’) in an impoverished
neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. To picture the market, imagine a mall without walls
–or, for that matter, a roof or a floor – where each ...
Quality of Decision-Making in Public Law
... of life: members of the public are confronted with them all the time. Whenever
a citizen applies for a building permit, a driving licence or benefits, or is faced
with an environmental enforcement measure, an administrative decision is
involved; it is in administrative decisions that government bodi ...
Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
... illustrate what has come to be known as the Coase Theorem. 3 This counterintuitive proposition states, in its strongest form, that when transaction
costs are zero a change in the rule of liability will have no effect on the
allocation of resources. For example, as long as its admittedly heroic assum ...
Transnational Legality: Stateless Law and International Arbitration
... Readers seeking factual descriptions of arbitration regimes, or the latest news about
them, would be better served by other studies, of which there really are plenty. This is a
book about ideas, about ways to think about law, law without the state, and arbitration
as a device of socio-legal regulati ...
Journal of Law, No. 1, 2012
... province prezzi or any other person approached for advice the princeps and due to such request
the rescript has been issued? For example the question was raised: is there right for appeal? It is
possible that in the approach for the advice the false data were provided. On the above problem
there is ...
verbatim record of the legal experts meeting on the law of the sea
... Norway, which recognized the necessity and validity of Norwegian straight base
lines and four miles limits of Norwegian territorial sea. In the meantime,
Indonesia was poised in 1957 to claim its archipelagic seas. At the First Session of
AALCO in New Delhi, Sri Lanka and India took the initiative t ...
Navigating stormy seas:
... with us rather than to adopt defensive tactics or
ignore the presence of a problem. Frank and early
acknowledgment of errors or misconduct demonstrates
an understanding of modern regulatory practice and
can substantially mitigate our risk-based concerns.
Many firms are recognising this, which is lea ...
Hart`s Methodological Positivism - Penn Law: Legal Scholarship
... these, only the first can appropriately be said to involve a form of methodological positivism. The second, when understood and analyzed in its own
terms, turns out in all significant respects to be Dworkin's interpretivism
under a different name. The two different strains in Hart's methodological
p ...
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... A. Parochial actions create problems for MNCs trying to do business there
B. Political parties feel more beholden to the country as a whole than to their local interests
C. The country's recent Prime Ministers have tried to fix the resulting problems
D. Businesses believe they are well prepared for ...
The of Power in Paradise: Political
... 1990; Sassen 1994). In a sense, Los Angeles acts as both a buffer and catalyst between cultural times, places, and perspectives. Among other things, it
is a city of negotiated, permeable frontiers between Santa Barbara’s wealthy
hillside suburbia to the North, and Tijuana’s commercial frenzy to the
...
How Law is Like Chess - bepress Legal Repository
... Kelsen had a detailed answer to this question.6 The law, according to Kelsen, is first
and foremost a system of norms. Norms are ‘ought’ statements, prescribing certain modes of
conduct. Unlike moral norms, however, Kelsen maintained that legal norms are created by
acts of will. They are products of ...
Continued
... genius. He attacked the idea of codification in Germany as he knew the defects of the
contemporary codes. According to him code was not a suitable instrument for the development
of German law at that time. Law is a product of the people's life-it is a manifestation of its spirit.
Law has its source ...
Lobbying and Litigating Against "Legal Bootleggers"
... define the practice of law has a solid mandate from state constitutions
and the separation of powers doctrine, or whether the power
developed to serve protectionist interests of a private trade group-the
bar-which had the cooperation of judiciary due to their shared
membership in the legal professio ...
Legal Gazette
... be considered on its own merits.”
What about IOs’ personnel? The principle of independence applies no matter
if they are paid by the IO or ceded by the participating nations in secondment, as
long as the personnel holds a NAC-approved international post (or PE) or the post
has been agreed in a separ ...
Legal informatics
Legal informatics is an area within information science. Erdelez and O’Hare (1997) define legal informatics as follows:The American Library Association defines informatics as “the study of the structure and properties of information, as well as the application of technology to the organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information.” Legal informatics therefore, pertains to the application of informatics within the context of the legal environment and as such involves law-related organizations (e.g., law offices, courts, and law schools) and users of information and information technologies within these organizations.