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Reproducing Empire In Same Sex Relationship Recognition And Immigration Law Reform, Nan Seuffert
Reproducing Empire In Same Sex Relationship Recognition And Immigration Law Reform, Nan Seuffert
Professor Nan Seuffert
No abstract provided.
Shares And Caring: Stories Of Law, Identity, Culture And Enterprise, Nan Seuffert
Shares And Caring: Stories Of Law, Identity, Culture And Enterprise, Nan Seuffert
Professor Nan Seuffert
No abstract provided.
Nation As Partnership: Law, "Race," And Gender In Aotearoa New Zealand's Treaty Settlements, Nan Seuffert
Nation As Partnership: Law, "Race," And Gender In Aotearoa New Zealand's Treaty Settlements, Nan Seuffert
Professor Nan Seuffert
This article uses postcolonial theory to analyze the dynamic convergence of two significant international trends in Aotearoa New Zealand: the movement for reparations for historical colonial injustices, and the economic reform process known as ‘‘structural adjustment,’’ or Reaganomics in the United States, which was intended to produce a competitive nation of individual entrepreneurs. It argues that analysis of the interrelationships of law, ‘‘race,’’ gender, and nation in this convergence illuminates the reproduction and reshaping of colonial tropes, or historical racial configurations produced through colonization, in these current trends. In Aotearoa New Zealand, claims by indigenous Maori activists for self-determination and …
Revolution, National Identity And Law Reform: From Derivatives To Demonstrations, Nan Seuffert
Revolution, National Identity And Law Reform: From Derivatives To Demonstrations, Nan Seuffert
Professor Nan Seuffert
No abstract provided.
Best Practices For Drafting University Technology Assignment Agreements After Filmtec, Stanford V. Roche, And Patent Reform, Parker Miles Tresemer
Best Practices For Drafting University Technology Assignment Agreements After Filmtec, Stanford V. Roche, And Patent Reform, Parker Miles Tresemer
Parker Tresemer
Since the end of World War II, federally funded universities and private companies have been an integral part of continued American innovation and technological production. However, like most rational economic actors, universities and private companies are only willing to invest in federally funded technologies if they are guaranteed some sort of exclusive return on their investment. By granting federal contractors exclusive patent rights to their employee’s federally funded inventions, the Bayh-Dole Act provided the necessary incentives for private sector investment in federally funded technologies. However, case law subsequent to Bayh-Dole’s enactment has significantly undermined the system of incentives Congress intended …
"Law's Outsiders": An Interview With Alex Sharpe, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
"Law's Outsiders": An Interview With Alex Sharpe, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Linnéa Wegerstad
In May 2012 Alex Sharpe, Professor of Law at Keele University, UK, visited Lund University where she participated in a series of seminars and workshops organised around a central motif in her work: the legal outsider. As part of her visit she presented a version of a paper recently published in the Modern Law Review titled “Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History.” The paper focused on and challenged the legal and wider cultural framing of non-disclosure of gender history as harmful and as unethical. The paper is her latest intervention and forms part of a substantial …