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Sharpened Blades: The United States Government’S Aggressive Attempt To Close The “Unpatriotic” Loophole Known As Corporate Inversions, Lili Sowlati Mar 2015

Sharpened Blades: The United States Government’S Aggressive Attempt To Close The “Unpatriotic” Loophole Known As Corporate Inversions, Lili Sowlati

Bocconi Legal Papers

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Finding Footing In A Postmodern Conception Of Law, Bryan Druzin Dec 2009

Finding Footing In A Postmodern Conception Of Law, Bryan Druzin

Bocconi Legal Papers

The following jurisprudence paper examines the implications of postmodern thought upon our conception of law. It will be argued that, despite the absolute, all-consuming moral relativism towards which postmodernism seems to lead in its most extreme form, its acceptance in fact in no way undermines the possibility of finding solid ground for our legal principles. This paper contends that moral objectivity can be found in the individual experience of suffering generated by these very subjective concoctions. Subjective concoctions or not, they are real in that they imbue a sense of value into conditions, and may thus serve as foundational principles …


Trust: Transcription And Opposability Of The 'Segregation', Federico Mottola Lucano Dec 2007

Trust: Transcription And Opposability Of The 'Segregation', Federico Mottola Lucano

Bocconi Legal Papers

The main objective of the paper is to clarify, as far as possible, the issues raised in civil law countries - and Italy in particular - by the introduction of a common law legal category like that of “trust”. The work sets off from a new piece of legislation issued by the Italian government in 2006, regulating the “transcription of acts of destination for the fulfillment of interests worthy of legal protection, referred to people with disabilities, to public administrations and to other entities or physical persons”. In a simple and basic way, the Italian legislator tried to introduce by …