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Law, Objectives Of Government And Regimes Of Truth: Foucault’S Understanding Of Law And The Transformation Of The Law Of The Eu Internal Market, Leila Brännström

Leila Brännström

Drawing on Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, this article aims, firstly, to consolidate our understanding of Foucault’s engagement with law by fleshing out his approach to law and by clarifying that he distinguishes between different kinds of law on the basis of the objectives that law serves and the regime of truth that it embodies. Secondly, using this understanding, the article proceeds to illustrate how the objectives and the regime of truth of the EU internal market law have been displaced in the last few decades. It is argued that this body of law has increasingly come …

On The Conceptual Confusions Of Jurisprudence, Aaron Rappaport

Aaron Rappaport

For more than half a century, legal theorists have tried to identify and describe the concept of law, employing a method called “conceptual analysis” to pursue this goal. Yet the details of that methodology remain obscure, its merits largely accepted without careful analysis. A reassessment is long past due. This paper offers the first comprehensive survey of the way conceptual analysis has been used in legal theory. The paper identifies four different forms of conceptual analysis – the empirical, intuitive, categorical and contingent methods of analysis. After clarifying the core assumptions of each approach, the paper evaluates whether any of …

Truth In Adjudication—A Civil/Common Law Divide, Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen

Procedural Due Process: The Distinctions Between America And Abroad, Ronald Smith

Ronald R Smith

Life After Comcast: Reasonable Interpretations Preserve The Rule And Keep Class Actions Alive, Brittni W. King

Brittni W King

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Directors’ Legal Duties And Csr: Prohibited, Permitted Or Prescribed In Contemporary Corporate Law?, Benedict Sheehy, Donald Feaver

Benedict Sheehy

Abstract: The interaction between CSR obligations and directors’ legal duties is seriously under examined. This article addresses that lack by examining directors’ duties in case law and legislation across the major commonwealth countries and the USA. It provides an analysis of leading cases and examines how they deal with the issues of the shareholder primacy doctrine, corporate legal theory, CSR and directors’ duties. The article reviews fiduciary relations and duties, analyses the directors’ duties to exercise power in the best interests of the company as a whole and for proper purposes. As this area of law is highly contested there …

Unexpected Insights Into Terrorism And National Security Law Through Children’S Literature: Reading The Butter Battle Book As Monstrosity, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

Legal knowledge often comes from unexpected encounters with legal theory. In this Essay, I critically analyze Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book as a source of international legal knowledge. Although this text was originally written as a criticism of the Cold War, I find modern parallels to the evolution of terrorism and national security law theorizing in the United States. As a result of this investigation, I provide a unique window onto civil society, and our continued fascination with the specter of terrorism.

Proportionality, General Principles Of Law, And Investor-State Arbitration: A Response To Jose Alvarez, Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet

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Decorating The Structure: The Art Of Making Human Law, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

Entender Los Males Económicos Modernos A La Luz De La Doctrina Social Católica, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

In a general sense, St. Thomas Aquinas predicted the paralysis and chaos of the financial and economic systems in America and Europe which occurred in 2008, when he predicted that in a society where unjust exchanges dominate, eventually all exchanges will cease. St. Thomas also points out that although human law cannot prohibit all injustice, society cannot escape the consequences of transgressing the divine law which leaves “nothing unpunished.” Thus, at least part of the explanation for that crisis whose effects remain with us today lies in continuous violations of natural justice by our economic system. Neither one product nor …

Anarchy, Order, And Trade: A Structuralist Account Of Why A Global Commercial Legal Order Is Emerging, Bryan H. Druzin

Bryan H. Druzin

While still fragmented, we are witnessing the emergence of a global commercial legal order independent of any one national legal system. This process is unfolding both on the macro-level of state actors as well as that of private individuals and organizations. On the macro-level, the sources of this legal order are complex international agreements; on the micro-level, private contracts employing commercial customary practices and arbitration are driving this process forward. Yet there is no comparable evolution occurring (in any substantial sense) in non-commercial areas of law such as criminal, tort, or family law. There is an overall asymmetry in the …

Situación De La Dogmática Jurídica En El Debate Entre Positivismo Jurídico Y Neoconstitucionalismo, José Balcázar Quiroz

José Balcázar Quiroz

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Visual Jurisprudence Of The American Yellow Traffic Light, Sarah Marusek

Sarah Marusek, Ph.D

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De Rechtskritische Benadering: Een Herwaardering, Jan M. Smits

Jan M Smits

The Age Of Constitutions In The Americas, M. C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

The Mask Of Virtue: Theories Of Aretaic Legislation In A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Public Lands And The Federal Government’S Compact-Based “Duty To Dispose”: A Case Study Of Utah’S H.B. 148 – The Transfer Of Public Lands Act, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Recent legislation passed in March 2012 in the State of Utah — the “Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study,” (“TPLA”) also commonly referred to as House Bill 148 (“H.B. 148”) — has demanded that the federal government, by December 31, 2014, “extinguish title” to certain public lands that the federal government currently holds (totaling an estimated more than 20 million acres). It also calls for the transfer of such acreage to the State and establishes procedures for the development of a management regime for this increased state portfolio of land holdings resulting from the transfer. The State of …

Corporate Social Responsibility In A Remedy-Seeking Society: A Public Choice Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on “What Can Law & Economics Teach Us About the Corporate Social Responsibility Debate?,” this Article applies the lessons of public choice theory to examine corporate social responsibility. The Article adopts a broad definition of corporate social responsibility activism to include both (1) those efforts that seek to convince corporations to voluntarily take into account corporate social responsibility in their own decision-making, and (2) the efforts to alter the legal landscape and expand legal obligations of corporations beyond traditional notions of harm and duty so as to force corporations to invest in interests …

El Tjue Clarifica El Concepto De 'Carne Separada Mecánicamente': La Sentencia “Newby Foods Ltd” De 16 De Octubre De 2014, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

The ECJ ruled that points 1.14 and 1.15 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin must be interpreted as meaning that the product obtained by the mechanical removal of meat from fleshbearing bones after boning or from poultry carcases must be classified as ‘mechanically separated meat’ within the meaning of that point 1.14, since the process used results in a loss or modification of the muscle fibre structure which is greater than that which is strictly confined …

La Sentencia 'Hagenmeyer Y Hahn/Comisión' (Tcue): Un Examen De La Legalidad De Los Procedimientos De Autorización De Las Declaraciones De Propiedades Saludables En Los Alimentos (Reglamento Nº 1924/2006), Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

En este asunto, los demandantes, Moritz Hagenmeyer (Hamburgo, Alemania) y Andreas Hahn (Hannover, Alemania), solicitaron al Tribunal General que anulase la parte del Reglamento (UE) nº 1170/2011 de la Comisión, de 16 de noviembre de 2011, por el que se deniega la autorización de determinadas declaraciones de propiedades saludables en los alimentos relativas a la reducción del riesgo de enfermedad, relativa a la declaración solicitada por los demandantes de que «Un consumo frecuente de cantidades importantes de agua puede reducir el riesgo de desarrollar una deshidratación y el consiguiente descenso de rendimiento». El citado Tribunal desestimó el recurso.

Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, Padideh Ala'i

Padideh Ala'i

»A Kőkorszak Metafizikája« És A »Szép Új Világ«: Herbert Hart A Jog Emberképéről [‘The Metaphysics Of The Stone Age’ And The ‘Brave New World’: Hart On The Law’S View Of Man], Péter Cserne

Péter Cserne

This paper analyses H.L.A. Hart’s views on the epistemic character of the law’s assumptions about human behaviour, as articulated in Causation in the Law and Punishment and Responsibility. Hart suggests that the assumptions behind legal doctrines typically combine common sense factual beliefs, moral intuitions, and philosophical theories of earlier ages with sound moral principles, and empirical knowledge. An important task of legal theory is to provide a ‘rational and critical foundation’ for these doctrines. This does not only imply conceptual clarification in light of an epistemic ideal of objectivity but also involves legal theorists in ‘enlightenment’ about empirical facts, ‘demystification’ …

¿Con La Misma Vara? Los Altibajos De La Igual Protección De Las Leyes En Las Opiniones Del Juez Federico Hernández Denton, Jorge R. Roig

Jorge R Roig

A Tributação Estratégica. Introdução À Teoria Dos Jogos No Direito Tributário., Cristiano Carvalho

Cristiano Rosa de Carvalho

O objetivo deste artigo é introduzir o campo de análise estratégica conhecido como Teoria dos Jogos aos operadores do direito tributário brasileiro.