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Ladisa, Paolo. "Video registrazione con valore legale su iPhone: Legal Rec." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/6669/.
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McDonald, Susan Elizabeth. "Public legal education in Ontario legal clinics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/MQ40664.pdf.
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Boon, Andrew. "Legal professionalism : ethics, practice and legal education." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322990.
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Miller, Benjamin. "Theorizing Legal Needs: Towards a Caring Legal System." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35204.
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Care ethics is primarily about responding to needs. Yet, surprisingly, attempts to apply the ethics of care in the domain of law have paid almost no attention to the concept of legal needs. This study fills that gap by systematically defining legal needs. It does this by revising current understandings of legal need through a unified conceptual framework for the philosophy of needs and a comparative analysis of legal action, and its major alternatives in dispute resolution and prevention. The conception of legal need that results is both more sensitive to preventative functions of the law and opens the door to a much wider range of policy options beyond legal aid. Legal needs are found to be a special case of institutional needs, i.e. needs that cannot be satisfied without an institution. I argue that the existence of institutional needs means institutions, rather than any particular actor within them, can be caregivers, but not all conceptions of the ethics of care are compatible with this kind of need. Joan Tronto’s conception of care is found to be the most accommodating and is used as a framework for a series of policy recommendations to move us towards a caring legal system.
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Davies, John Quantrill. "Extra-legal and legal governance of international transactions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29538.pdf.
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Davies, John 1972. "Extra-legal and legal governance of international transactions." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26730.
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Any agreement, treaty or commercial transaction needs to be governed in order to work. The New Economics of Organisation literature glosses over the fact that different parts of the same transaction may be governed in different ways. In contrast, this thesis argues for the existence of "hybrid transacting" and presents two international bargaining cases to illustrate how interstate agreements are entered into legally, but enforced extra-legally. Given that the enforcement of international agreements is extra-legal, this thesis presents two lines of argument that are designed to answer the question, why do states enter into their agreements with other states in a legal way? It is suggested that treaty law offers states two important advantages. First, treaty law is a solution to an "information ordering" problem. Second, it is suggested that treaty law operates as a baseline against which reputation can be assessed.
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Harris, Philip Anthony. "The legal moral and the non-legal moral." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245645.
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FERREIRA, DANIEL BRANTES. "AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM: A CONTRIBUTION TO LEGAL EDUCATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18690@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORPROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A tese tem como hipótese a importância do realismo jurídico norteamericano para o desenvolvimento do ensino jurídico e das escolas de direito norte-americanas. Para isto três autores serão abordados: Wesley N. Hohfeld, Walter W. Cook e Karl N. Llewellyn. O primeiro capítulo trará uma introdução sobre as questões metodológicas do trabalho. O segundo capítulo fará uma digressão histórica no direito norte-americano para podermos compreender o contexto de surgimento do realismo jurídico. O terceiro capítulo abordará Wesley N. Hohfeld, sua importância para o surgimento do movimento realista e também sua contribuição para a evolução do ensino jurídico norte-americano. O quarto capítulo tratará de Walter W. Cook, sua teoria e sua experiência fracassada no Instituto para o Estudo de Direito de Johns Hopkins. O quinto capítulo tratará especificamente do surgimento do realismo jurídico através dos escritos de Karl N. Llewellyn e também de sua teoria das funções do direito. A crítica de Llewellyn ao ensino jurídico da época será ponto central do capítulo. O sexto capítulo demonstrará o porquê de o movimento realista ter sucumbido tão rápido, bem como abordará o seu legado. Finalmente a conclusão demonstrará as limitações do trabalho e suas principais contribuições.
The thesis has as its main hypothesis the importance of American legal realism to the development of American Law Schools and legal education. In order to accomplish that, three authors will be faced: Wesley N. Hohfeld, Walter W. Cook e Karl N. Llewellyn. The first chapter will bring an introduction about the methodological issues of the present work. The second chapter will make a historical digression on the American law so that the reader can understand in which context American legal realism appeared. The third chapter will be about Wesley N. Hohfeld and his importance to the appearance of American legal realism and also his contribution to legal education. The fourth chapter will treat Walter W. Cook’s theory and his failure in the John’s Hopkins Institute. The fifth chapter will treat specifically about the appearance of the legal realism movement through Karl N. Llewellyn articles and his law-jobs theory. Also, his criticism about legal education at the time will be the core of this chapter. The sixth chapter will demonstrate why American legal realism was not successful in its attempt and why it didn’t last long. It also will demonstrate the important legacy left by the movement. Finally, the conclusion will demonstrate the thesis’s limitations and its main contributions.
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Mayer, Peter W. "Extra-legal factors in the American legal system." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316113331.
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Haskin, Eleanor. "Legal Consciousness and the Legal Culture of NAGPRA." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1601049615507107.
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O'Donovan, Katherine. "Legal writing." Thesis, University of Kent, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257512.
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Bello, Cruzado Gloria, Flores Pablo, PATRICIA MULLER, and Sancho Ana Luisa Shapiama. "Legal Red." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622557.
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El presente trabajo de este proyecto empresarial, consiste en brindar Asesoría Legal a los turistas y personas extranjeras que vienen al Perú y requieran de ayuda legal oportuna (asaltos, robos, estafas, procesos migratorios, etc.) y permanente de alto nivel de excelencia así como un buen profesionalismo a través de una plataforma de servicio, llamado “LEGAL RED”. Cabe precisar que si el caso requiera mayor complejidad, la consulta será derivada a nuestras oficinas. El lanzamiento de nuestro proyecto requiere de una inversión inicial de S/.98, 000; nuestras asesorías legales se brindarán a través de una plataforma virtual. Nuestras tarifas tendrán un costo de S/.45.00 las virtuales y S/. 85.00 las asesorías presenciales.Tesis
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Bartenberger, Martin, Sven Galla, and Alexander Kosak. "Legal chatbots." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21215.
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This article introduces the idea of legal chatbots and how legal chatbots might affect the legal market in the near future. We define chatbots as computer programs that automatically chat with users and assess their potential for legal consultation. We identify four potential strengths of legal chatbots: providing access to justice, serving as contact points for customers, reducing the knowledge gap between lawyer and client and automatically generating documents and taking further actions. In the concluding section we briefly discuss ethical aspects of legal chatbots and possible future developments.
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Kalsing, Rejane Margarete Schaefer. "Sociabilidade legal." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/94744.
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O tema da presente tese é a sociabilidade legal enquanto ligação entre sociabilidade e direito em Kant. O conceito de sociabilidade legal ocorre propriamente, e somente, no § 60 da Crítica da faculdade do juízo, a KU. Kant não chega a defini-la, se limita a dizer que é por ela que um povo constitui uma coletividade duradoura e que ela lutou para unir liberdade e coerção. Nesse sentido, Valerio Rohden, no artigo intitulado Sociabilidade legal uma ligação entre direito e humanidade na 3ª Crítica de Kant, texto que servirá como uma espécie de chave de interpretação de Kant ao longo desta tese, vai conceber a sociabilidade legal como a capacidade e disposição de se deixar guiar por princípios do Direito e, por conseguinte, como um pré-requisito para uma constituição política, ambiente no qual, conforme Kant, todas as disposições humanas podem ser desenvolvidas. Busca-se mostrar, de uma maneira geral, que o conceito de sociabilidade legal, apesar de ocorrer somente no § 60 da KU, perpassa outras obras no sentido de ser a própria compreensão de Kant nessas obras do termo sociabilidade, ou seja, enquanto uma sociabilidade que conduz ao direito, mais propriamente enquanto uma capacidade de sociedade que está ligada a uma capacidade e a uma disposição de se impor obrigações racionais, regras de convivência, capacidade e disposição sem as quais a sociedade é impossível. Para tanto, o presente trabalho desenvolve-se em quatro capítulos. O primeiro capítulo faz uma reconstrução da abordagem dos conceitos de sociabilidade e de direito na obra Idéia de uma história universal de um ponto de vista cosmopolita (IaG). Nesta, o conceito de sociabilidade aparece sob a forma de uma sociabilidade que é insociável, a qual obrigará os indivíduos a entrar em um estado civil conforme leis e conduzirá os Estados a entrar numa federação de nações. Uma tal sociabilidade pode ser considerada como uma sociabilidade legal. É o que se procurou defender especificamente. Já o segundo capítulo apresenta os conceitos sociabilidade e direito na obra Início conjectural da história humana (MAM). Nela, o conceito de sociabilidade é considerada en passant como o mais alto fim da determinação humana e também como uma arte humana, a qual foi resultado do início da cultura, cujo objetivo mais alto é a constituição civil perfeita. Uma tal sociabilidade também pode ser considerada enquanto uma sociabilidade legal. O terceiro capítulo enfoca a obra Crítica da faculdade do juízo (KU), a qual é a única, como já referido, em que o conceito sociabilidade legal ocorre textualmente. Nesse sentido, o capítulo reconstroi o texto kantiano até chegar à abordagem dos conceitos de sociabilidade e, em especial, o de sociabilidade legal e, em função disso, detém-se no exame dos mesmos. O quarto e último capítulo se refere à obra Princípios metafísicos da doutrina do direito (RL). Nesta, o conceito de sociabilidade não ocorre, apresenta-se, então, o conceito de direito e o princípio honeste vive, atribuído a Ulpiano, considerado por Kant um dever de direito. Esse princípio, também denominado de honestidade jurídica, refere-se, de acordo com Alessandro Pinzani em seu texto Der systematische Stellenwert der pseudo-ulpianischen Regeln in Kants Rechtslehre, a um estado préjurídico, pois é uma atitude interna e, assim, antecede a existência de normas jurídicas e, portanto, do direito em geral. Sendo assim, esse princípio pode ser considerado enquanto sociabilidade legal. É o que se defende aqui.
The theme of this thesis is the legal sociability as a link between sociability and Right in Kant. The concept of legal sociability occurs only and properly in the § 60 of Critique of Judgement, the KU. Kant does not define it, he limits himself to say that a people constitutes a everlasting community through it and that it fought to unite freedom and coercion. In this sense, Valerio Rohden, in an article titled Sociabilidade legal uma ligação entre direito e humanidade na 3ª Crítica de Kant, text that will serve as a kind of key interpretation of Kant throughout this thesis, will design the legal sociability as the capacity and willingness to be guidedfor the principles of Right and, therefore, as a prerequisite for a political constitution, environment in which, according to Kant, all the human arrangements may be developed. It aims to show, in a general way, that the concept of legal sociability, even though it appears only on the § 60 of KU, pervades other works in the sense of Kant.s own understanding of the term sociability in these works, in the meaning that while a sociability that leads to Right, more properly as a society capacity that is linked to a capacity and a willingness of imposing rational obligations, rules of coexistence, capacity and willingness without which society is impossible. To show you that, this work is developed in four chapters. The first one makes a rebuilding of the sociability concepts approach and Right in the work Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (IaG). In this work, the concept of sociability appears in the form of a sociability which is unsociable, the one which will orc individuals to enter in a civil state according to laws and will lead the States to enter in a nation federation. Such a sociability may be considered as a legal one. This is what is specifically sought to defend. The second chapter shows the concepts of sociability and Law in the work Conjectural Begining of the human History (MAM). I this work, the concept of sociability is considered en passant as the highest end of human determination and also as a human art, which resulted from the begining of a culture which highly aims the perfect civil constitution. Such a sociability can also e considered as a legal sociability. The third chapter focuses in the work Critique of Judgement (KU), which is the only one, as referred before, in which the concept of legal sociability occurs in the text. In this sense, the chapter rebuilds the Kant.s text until it reaches to the approach of sociability conceptsand, particularly, the one of legal sociability, and, because of that, it holds on an examination of these two concepts. The fourth and last chapter refers to the work Doctrine of Right (RL). This work does not shows the concept of sociability, so it shows the concept of Right and the principle honeste vive, attributed to Ulpiano, considered by Kant a duty of law. This principle, also named juridical honesty, refers, according to Alessandro Pinzani in his text called Der systematische Stellenwert der pseudo-ulpianischen Regeln in Kants Rechtslehre, to a pré-juridical condition, because its an internal attitude and, thus, precedes the existence of legal rules and, therefore, of Right in general. Thus, this principle can be considered as legal sociability. This is what advocates here.
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Fairclough, Murray Simon Charles. "Civil legal aid and legal expenses insurance : an analysis." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31090.
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Modern civil legal aid, has its roots in the post war United Kingdom, being a fundamental component of the welfare state, recognised as such by the political parties of the time. The provision of civil legal aid today is a different animal and does not share the same values as the 'old' scheme. This analysis will assess the evolution of civil legal aid, its success and failure, and consider the changes it has undergone and the forces behind those changes in dictating its current profile as a limited and franchised public services provision. Legal expenses insurance, unlike civil legal aid, is a relative newcomer as a provider of access to civil justice. The scepticism that accompanied its arrival in this country, some 20 years ago, has dissipated. Insurers battled with the problems of adverse selection, European regulation and the public perception of their product, all of which have influenced market penetration. The position of legal expenses insurance within the civil justice system has begun to strengthen and is now openly recognised and supported by the legal establishment. A key objective of this analysis is to consider the rise of the legal expenses insurance market in the United Kingdom. This analysis seeks to assess the history of legal expenses insurance and evaluate its current position as a viable addition, or possible alternative, to State funded civil legal aid. Therefore, it becomes necessary for this study to consider the position of comparative European jurisdictions. In addition, the role and reaction of the legal practitioner situated amidst such significant and fundamental change is solicited and evaluated since they have, at once, fought change and yet accepted it in equal measure. Finally, this analysis explores the future position of civil legal aid and legal expenses insurance. It considers the survival of the former, growth of the latter and the dynamics of the State and private sectors working together to mould a new model for the provision of access to civil justice in the United Kingdom.
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Golzari, Sepideh. "A legal geographic perspective on a critical legal pluralism." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95228.
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This thesis is a work of interpretation about interpretations of law. It exposes mainstream approaches of law, a critical legal pluralist approach and a legal geographic approach to methods of questioning provoked by a series of events connected to Palestinian Human Rights Week at McGill Faculty of Law. These events are used to highlight that the theoretical approach of a Critical Legal Pluralism can better account for power relations than mainstream approaches to law but, that it can nonetheless be usefully supplemented by an appreciation of Legal Geography in order to account for the how of power relations, prevent the reification of human legal agency' and make a move beyond the human/non-human binary.Ce mémoire est un travail d'interprétation sur différentes interprétations du droit. Il confronte une approche juridique traditionnelle, une approche fondée sur le pluralisme juridique critique ainsi qu'une approche de géographie du droit à des réflexions suscitées par une série d'événements en relation avec la Semaine des Droits de l'Homme en Palestine qui s'est tenue à la faculté de Droit de Mcgill. Ces événements sont utilisés afin de mettre en lumière le fait qu'une approche théorique issue du Pluralisme Juridique Critique permet de rendre mieux compte des rapports de pouvoirs que les approches traditionnelles du droit ; celle-ci peut toutefois être enrichie par la Géographie du Droit afin de rendre compte du comment des rapports de pouvoirs, prevenir la réification des "human legal agency" et dépasser l'opposition binaire humain/non-humain.
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Ghanavati, Sepideh. "Legal-URN Framework for Legal Compliance of Business Processes." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24028.
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In recent years, the number of regulations an organization needs to comply with has been increasing, and organizations have to ensure that their business processes are aligned with these regulations. However, because of the complexity and intended vagueness of regulations in general, it is not possible to treat them the same way as other types of requirements. On the other hand, the cost of being non-compliant can also be fairly high; non-compliance can cause crucial harm to the organization with financial penalties or loss of reputation. Therefore, it is very important for organizations to take a systematic approach to ensuring that their compliance with related laws, regulations and standards is established and maintained.
To achieve this goal, this thesis proposes a model-based compliance analysis framework for business processes called Legal-URN. This framework is composed of four layers of abstraction linked to each other. The framework exploits the User Requirements Notation (URN) as the modeling language to describe and combine legal and organizational models. In order to model legal documents, legal statements are first classified into four classes of Hohfeldian rights, and then Hohfeldian models of the regulations and their statements are created. These models are further refined into legal goal and business process models via a domain-specific version of URN called Legal URN profile. To check the well-formedness of the models and to identify instances of non-compliance, 23 Object Constraint Language (OCL) rules are provided. In this thesis, the quantitative and qualitative analysis algorithms of URN's Goal-oriented Requirement Language are extended to help analyze quantitatively and qualitatively the degree of compliance of an organization to the legal models. Furthermore, with the help of a prioritization algorithm, the framework enables one to decide, while taking the organization goals into consideration, which non-compliant instances to address first in order to provide a suitable evolution path for business processes.
In addition, to assess compliance with more than one regulation, a pair-wise comparison algorithm enables organizations to identify the similarities and conflicts among regulations and incorporate them in the models. The jUCMNav tool, an Eclipse plug-in for URN modeling and analysis, was extended to support the framework and its algorithms and rules.
The thesis contributions are evaluated through a gap analysis based on a systematic literature review, a comparison with closely related work, and two case studies in the healthcare domain: one with a single regulation and realistic business processes, and a second with three additional regulations. We also identify the benefits and limitations of the framework, as well as potential extensions for future work.
The Legal-URN framework provides a tool-supported, rigorous approach to compliance analysis of organizations against relevant regulations.
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Field, Stewart. "Legal forms, legal ideology and the early factory inspectorate." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335857.
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Shams, El-Din Heba Mahmoud Mokhtar. "Globalisation as a legal problematic : balancing legal efficiency against legal principle : the case of money laundering." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1900.
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Over the relatively short period of the last three decades, an extensive body of law, both penal and regulatory, has developed in order to prevent and to control th1s seemingly burgeoning phenomenon of money laundering. Initial examination of this body of law immediately reveals that it is a legal order that pushes against the traditional frameworks of criminal justice. For example, this new legal order persistently rings "alarm bells" regarding its compatibility with such fundamental principles as the presumption of innocence, the principle of legality, the immunity against double jeopardy, and the rights to privacy especially financial privacy. It also blurs the public nature of policing, the prosecutorial burden of proof and the jurisdictional territoriality of criminal law. Its formation at the international level shows strong signs of supranationalism that challenges State sovereignty and the principle of consent in international law. This tension between money laundering law and traditional legal principles poses two related questions: (1) What is the reason for this apparent exceptionality of money laundering law?; and (2) How could the tension between law and principle be resolved? As conventional wisdom has it, understanding the law can-not be disassociated from its social context. Certainly, understanding money laundering law is only possible through an understanding of the process of social change that shaped it. During these past three decades "globalisation" characterised the process of social change that has been gathering momentum. It is this context that has instigated and shaped money laundering law. Globalisation has been propelled by both rapid technological innovation that rendered massive instantaneous communication possible as well as extensive processes of de-regulation and liberalisation. The combined effect of these developments was the emergence of non-state actors that operate across national borders and master substantial economic and informational power. Meanwhile, the State, as the primary agency of governance, has remained jurisdictionally territorial while becoming less dominantly powerful. Both features have resulted in a "governance crisis" and has turned globalisation into a "legal problematic. " The core thesis that emerges from this contextual analysis is that money laundering law is a response to globalisation as a legal problematic. As a solution, it employs six modalities of governance: de- glob alisation, extraterritorialisation, harmonisation, co-operation, privatisation and supranatinl-ql--,] -iq---ti,o, n, which are characterised by deviation from traditional legal principles. In terms of its modalities and their characteristics, money laundering law is not a unique response to the legal problematic. It is part of a current and general trend in legal governance. Resolving the tension between this trend and traditional legal principles is a two-way process that involves revising both the law and the principles. In presenting this thesis, the volume will be organised into seven chapters. Following ail introductory Chapter, Chapters Two and Three will analyse the legislative policy underlying money laundering law by conducting contextual and historical analysis. Chapters Four, Five and Six will expound upon the six modalities utilised by money laundering law to address the governance problem posed by globalisation. Finally, Chapter Seven will sum up the argument and suggest some direction for the future.
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Gourlay, K. A. "The scientific approach to legal history and legal reform : comparing the legal philosophy, historical methodology, and legal science of Blackstone, Kames, and Bentham." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1496049/.
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This thesis examines how William Blackstone, Lord Kames, and Jeremy Bentham each understood the significance of history in relation to legal development. By dedicating a chapter to each writer, discussing their legal and moral theory, and then examining their use of history within their writings, I show how each writer incorporated historical study within their legal sciences, and how it informed their ideas for legal reform. Each writer was representative of a specific moral theory - natural law, moral sense and common sense, and utilitarianism - and advocated a type of legal system. Blackstone adopted natural law theory and argued that it was the common law's consistency with natural law that gave it validity. Kames advocated the idea of moral sense and common sense, and argued that legal change could occur within a court of equity. Finally, Bentham advocated the principle of utility, and argued that the English common law legal system should be replaced with a system of legislation based on the principle of utility. Thus, explaining the role that history played within their legal sciences provides a window into their views on the study of history and its usefulness for understanding law and society. While it is often assumed that Bentham's philosophy was ahistorical, Bentham's use of history was un-tendentious in comparison to Blackstone and Kames, who were concerned to appeal to history in order to support their legal and moral theories. Because Bentham's legal science did not directly rely on history for validation or for determining legal reform, he was able to investigate and examine history at face value without being influenced by contemporary eighteenth-century issues. Bentham, moreover, wished to create a legal system that was clear, transparent, public, and rationally calculated. The rationality and transparency of Bentham's legal system aimed to permit legal change to occur openly and quickly whenever needed.
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Bryan, Jane. "The legal and non-legal regulation of the pregnant woman." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409909.
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Williams, Ian Scott. "English legal reasoning and legal culture, c.1528-c.1642." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612476.
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Mastro, Puccio Fernando del. "Pobreza legal y pobreza legal extrema: ¿quiénes son los responsables?" THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2007. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/107834.
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En el presente artículo, el autor nos invita a reflexionar acerca de la pobreza legal en el país, las causas y las consecuencias de que perdure en el tiempo.Asimismo, identifica alos responsables de aquella, planteando interesantes líneas de acción para combatirla, pero, sobre todo, nos hace ver que está en nosotros mismos la posibilidad de ser losverdaderos agentes del cambio.
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Chilovi, Samuele. "Grounding Legal Reality." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667056.
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The four main chapters of this thesis, while each largely autonomous, collectively provide a study of the relation between grounding and supervenience, and a comprehensive application of grounding theory to the philosophy of law. Chapter 1 argues that a supervenience relation interestingly weaker than necessitation can be used to capture a substantive connection between grounding and modality. Chapter 2 argues that metaphysical grounding is the relation of dependence that connects legal facts to their determinants, and that the positivism/anti-positivism debate in legal philosophy involves competing claims on the grounds of legal facts. Chapter 3 criticizes extant grounding- based formulations of legal positivism offered by Rosen (2010) and Plunkett and Shapiro (2017), and puts forward a novel and insightful formulation that is capable of solving their problems, which crucially relies on the notion of a social enabler. Finally, Chapter 4 shows that Hume’s Law – the thesis that one cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’ – poses no significant threat to legal positivism or moral naturalism, both understood as views about grounding.
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Parsley, Stephen. "Rethinking Legal Retribution." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/98.
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In this paper I discuss retributivist justifications for legal punishment. I argue that the main moral retributivist theories advanced so far fail to support a plausible system of legal punishment. As an alternative, I suggest, with some reservations, the legal retributivism advanced by Alan Brudner in his Punishment and Freedom.
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Newbold, A. L. E. "Legal professional privilege." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263351.
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Rio, Alice. "Frankish legal formularies." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443790.
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Rebaza, García Luís Rodolfo, M. Fernando Demichelli, and Corzo Andrés Silva. "Asesoría Legal Prepagada." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622624.
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Este proyecto de negocio surgió al observar la experiencia cotidiana vivida por miles de personas, muchas de ellas propietarias y gerentes de Mypes que por las mas diversas causas no han accedido a servicios legales preventivos acordes a sus necesidades. Como se verá en lo subsiguiente, esta falta de asesoría legal preventiva es entendida por nosotros como una oportunidad de negocio interesante que se traduce en la “democratización de los servicios jurídicos” hacia un segmento de mercado que si bien ha sido el mas dinámico durante los últimos tiempos, con un crecimiento sostenido digno de atención, sigue mostrando oportunidades de mejora plausibles de brindar. Asimismo vemos que la fórmula de asesoría legal común posee orientación claramente reactiva remitiendo a las personas, casi por inercia, a enfrascarse en procesos judiciales que a la larga consumen los recursos de las empresas. A lo largo de este trabajo analizaremos tanto el mercado al que pretendemos llegar como las opciones legales existentes a la fecha. También buscamos mostrar que dichas opciones legales no se encuentran acordes a los requerimientos del segmento objetivo al que se quiere llegar y por último abordaremos una nueva propuesta que apunta a cubrir las oportunidades de negocio que identificamos.Tesis
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Rebaza, G. Luís Rodolfo, M. Fernando Demichelli, and C. Andrés Silva. "Asesoría Legal Prepagada." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622708.
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Este proyecto de negocio surgió al observar la experiencia cotidiana vivida por miles de personas, muchas de ellas propietarias y gerentes de Mypes que por las mas diversas causas no han accedido a servicios legales preventivos acordes a sus necesidades. Como se verá en lo subsiguiente, esta falta de asesoría legal preventiva es entendida por nosotros como una oportunidad de negocio interesante que se traduce en la “democratización de los servicios jurídicos” hacia un segmento de mercado que si bien ha sido el mas dinámico durante los últimos tiempos, con un crecimiento sostenido digno de atención, sigue mostrando oportunidades de mejora plausibles de brindar. Asimismo vemos que la fórmula de asesoría legal común posee orientación claramente reactiva remitiendo a las personas, casi por inercia, a enfrascarse en procesos judiciales que a la larga consumen los recursos de las empresas. A lo largo de este trabajo analizaremos tanto el mercado al que pretendemos llegar como las opciones legales existentes a la fecha. También buscamos mostrar que dichas opciones legales no se encuentran acordes a los requerimientos del segmento objetivo al que se quiere llegar y por último abordaremos una nueva propuesta que apunta a cubrir las oportunidades de negocio que identificamos.Tesis
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Mogilina, Y. "Ausralia legal system." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33765.
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Australia's legal system also known as ‘Common law system' is based on the model which was inherited by those countries whose development was influenced by British Colonialism in particular the commonwealth countries and the U.S.A.
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Shaw, Geoffrey C. "The rise and fall of liberal legal positivism : legal positivism, legal process, and H.L.A. Hart's America, 1945-1960." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7ea644b-0d13-4a60-8993-e4119404a5ca.
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This dissertation uses new archival materials to analyze the intellectual journey of H.L.A. Hart and his ideas in the United States, focusing on Hart's year as a visiting professor at Harvard, 1956-57, and its immediate aftermath. The dissertation situates Hart's work in the United States in the historical and intellectual context of the Legal Process School, the jurisprudential movement that dominated legal thought at Harvard during Hart's visit. When Hart arrived at Harvard in 1956, he found himself on a harmonious intellectual trajectory with the process theorists, seeking a middle road between legal formalism and legal realism, despite the deep suspicion with which American legal theorists viewed analytical jurisprudence and legal positivism. Over the course of the year, Hart and the process theorists collaborated and debated constantly - clarifying their methodological disagreements and also their shared jurisprudential mission. In close contact with the process theorists, Hart developed an account of legal decision-making and the relationship between legal indeterminacy and the rule of law that resonated deeply with process theory. He expressed these ideas in a lost essay, Discretion, written shortly after his arrival at Harvard. Discretion spurred a year of fruitful debate in the newly formed Legal Philosophy Discussion Group on topics ranging from the value of Hart's analytical methodology to the core problems of American democracy. Throughout the year, for example, Hart exchanged views with Lon Fuller about the applicability of the fact-value distinction to jurisprudence, constituting a "pre-Hart-Fuller debate Hart-Fuller debate," largely unreconstructed until now, which informs what was really at stake in the published Hart-Fuller exchange. In the spring, Hart delivered his famous Holmes Lecture, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals. Understood in historical context, the lecture represented the culmination of a year of collaboration and debate with the Legal Process School, and Hart's attempt to defend a new, truly liberal formulation of legal positivism that responded specifically to the challenges his methodological outlook had encountered in the United States. Ultimately, however, Hart's ideas were unable to transcend the broiling debate over the role of the judiciary in American democracy in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. As progressive politics in the United States came increasingly to depend on an activist judiciary enforcing moral rights, Hart's positivism seemed to resonate more with Learned Hand's criticism of judicial review (which came out the same month as Hart's Holmes Lecture) than with justice-oriented defenses of the Warren Court. Further, Hart's process theoretic account of judicial discretion came to conflict with the Warren Court's activist judicial stance, partly due to the "botched" reception of Herbert Wechsler's 1959 lecture, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, which was heavily influenced by Hart's Discretion essay. But at the deepest level, Hart held a view about liberalism in which open, rational democratic deliberation, not judicial intervention, was the primary force for social change - a view the Process School largely shared, yet a view that was sidelined in the Warren Court era. For largely political reasons, Hart's liberal legal positivism failed to gain traction. In telling this history, this dissertation makes an original contribution to the literature in several ways: by drawing on a wealth of new source material, by situating Hart's year at Harvard in the intellectual context of the Legal Process School, by providing a complete historical analysis of the Legal Philosophy Discussion Group, by analyzing Hart's lost essay Discretion and Fuller's forgotten "Reply to Critics," by reconstructing the interactions between Hart and Fuller before their published exchange, and by interpreting Hart's Holmes Lecture in the context of process theory's decline. Hart's extraordinary year in America and the legacy of analytical legal positivism and the Legal Process School remain topics of great importance to legal philosophy, and my goal is to contribute a new, I hope helpful, historical interpretation to the scholarly conversation.
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Jung, Sang Yool 1965. "A legal analysis of aviation security under the international legal regime /." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82661.
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The safety of civil aviation has been endangered not only by terrorism, but also by many other unlawful acts committed by persons with varying motivation. The international community has worked to provide a secure and safe air transportation system for general people and thus has developed aviation security systems in the legal and technical fields to combat and prevent the man-made intentional harm against civil aviation.The legal instruments are mainly based on several multilateral conventions, resolutions and declarations. They are all focused on how to eliminate safe heavens for unlawful actors against civil aviation, secure the safety of passenger and crew, and facilitate the resumption of affected aircraft.
The technical instruments, dealing with specific preventive security measures to suppress the unlawful acts against civil aviation on a practical basis, have been developed by ICAO as "Standards and Recommended Practices" (SARPs) in the form of Annexes. In addition, to promote global aviation security, ICAO launched its "Universal Security Audit Programme" immediately following the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
This thesis critically analyses the legal and technical aviation security systems under current international legal regimes and provides several recommendations to improve the remaining problems in the international aviation security system.
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Vergara, Blanco Alejandro. "Administrative Law and legal method. The role of the legal doctrine." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/107340.
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Legal education is not a subject of much discussion; however, it is a fundamental matter in the formation of lawyers, and because of that, it is important for students and teachers. In the present article, the author concentrates on the instruction of Administrative Law, focusing on the role of the legal doctrine in this regard and concluding that the form and method of Administrative Law must be specific for this discipline.La enseñanza del Derecho es un tema sobre el cual no se debate mucho; sin embargo, es un asunto fundamental en la formación del abogado, por lo que es de importancia para alumnos y profesores. En el presente artículo, el autor se centra en la instrucción del Derecho Administrativo, enfocándose en el rol que tiene en ello la Doctrina y concluyendo que la forma y el método del Derecho Administrativo deben ser propios de esa disciplina.
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Verbinets, Veronika. "Тheoretical-legal basis of legal consciousness as forms of social consciousness." Thesis, Тернопіль: Вектор, 2020. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/43917.
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Не дивлячись на великий інтерес науковців до особи Євгена Ерліха, варто все ж таки віддати належне вченому, який працював на теренах Буковини і черпав натхнення для своєї наукової діяльності саме із цього мальовничого краю. Відомий на увесь світ правознавець Євген Ерліх розробив правову концепцію, яка отримала назву «вільного права». Будучи основоположником соціології права, він закликав шукати його витоки в соціальних асоціаціях і існуючому в них порядку: «Щоб зрозуміти витоки, розвиток і сутність права, слід перш за все вивчити порядок, який існує в громадських спілках. Причина невдач всіх
попередніх спроб пояснити право полягала в тому, що вони виходили від правових приписів, а не з цього порядку». Ерліх вважав, що успіх права залежить виключно від тих соціальних відносин, які існують у державі. Суспільство існує в асоціаціях, або союзах, які Ерліх поділяє на два великі класи - «самобутні» і «нові». До самобутніх спілок він відносить усі соціальні асоціації, утворені природнім шляхом: сім’ю, рід, сімейну громаду. Нові союзи - це асоціації, що утворилися в ході цілеспрямованої діяльності людей: держави, політичні партії, профспілки, виробничі об’єднання і т.д.
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Haagensen, Nicholas. "European Legal Networks in Crisis: The Legal Construction of Economic Policy." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/307857/3/PhDfinal.pdf.
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This dissertation investigates how legal and policy professionals have legally constructed the economic policy and governance of the EU since the beginning of the Eurozone crisis onwards. It follows the legal and policy professionals who received the mandate to enable and consolidate solutions, as well as defend these solutions in court. By tracing the practices and trajectories of these agents, I show how, during an unfolding crisis, economic policy and governance becomes legally constructed and changes the terms of legitimation for EU economic governance. The stakes involved for the professionals involved also change. In this way, the dissertation speaks to the question of how intrusive political power has been legitimated during the Eurozone crisis and what this means for the legitimacy of European governance. Theoretically, this thesis develops a Bourdieusian field approach that is adapted to the transnational and diachronic context of the Eurozone crisis, as it unfolded from the end of 2009 until the adjudication of key high-profile court cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Drawing on boundary work, bricolage, and network interactions to analyse the practices of legal and policy professionals, the process of enabling and consolidating solutions is elaborated. Attention is given to how this process engenders stakes for the professionals in this emerging euro-crisis law field, and what this means for emerging legal terms of legitimation for economic governance.Methodologically, field-based and social network analysis are combined in two distinct ways. First, by employing a temporally-focussed network analysis, which caters for change by measuring the shifting centrality of legal and policy professionals over time, I show which professionals have had a high-level of involvement in dealing with crisis issues. This then permits the construction of a referral network based on how these professionals refer to their peers. The involvement of the professionals is further articulated as their accumulated symbolic capital: i.e. their involvement together with being perceived to know well. From this, I infer a species of symbolic capital unique to being part of the Eurozone crisis policy response: juridical capital.This dissertation adds to scholarship on the Eurozone crisis by creating a theoretical framework based on Bourdieusian fields, which utilises a network analytical approach to show how the practices and interactions of legal and policy professionals reconfigure the transnational contexts that are implicated in the crisis policy response. Moreover, it is shown how these professionals’ practices enable solutions that are contested before the Court of Justice of the European Union, putting the Court in a position where it has to bring the definitional power of the law to bear on the actions of EU institutions and the Eurogroup. The Court must decide how responsibility should be attributed. The dissertation shows how legal and policy professionals developed practices, using jurisdictional and constitutionalising logics, and deployed at different times during the crisis, enabled and consolidated processes of legal integration and differentiation.Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Majul, Salazar Sergio Antonio. "Legal Advisor Chile, asesoría legal para clientes no residentes en Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2013. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/114416.
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Magíster en Gestión para la GlobalizaciónEl objetivo de esta tesis es desarrollar un plan de negocios destinado a evaluar la conveniencia comercial del proyecto denominado Legal Advisor Chile. Este emprendimiento consiste en una compañía de servicios jurídicos con sede en Santiago, diseñada para satisfacer las necesidades de personas tanto naturales como jurídicas que no residen en Chile y que requieren la ejecución de una actividad, trámite o gestión legal dentro del territorio de la república. Hoy en día, nuestro país es considerando en el plano internacional como uno de los países más abiertos en términos comerciales y, a consecuencia de ello, se ha incrementado la cantidad de servicios que tienden a satisfacer necesidades más allá de nuestras fronteras. Resulta atractivo satisfacer las necesidades que tienen los potenciales clientes que residen fuera del territorio de la república que deben realizar diversas gestiones de índole jurídica en nuestro país. El interés que ha despertado Chile en el extranjero se ha visto reflejado en el quehacer diario de las distintas oficinas consulares con que cuenta nuestro país en el exterior. Sin ser ambiciosos, es posible acceder a un interesante mercado en los dos grupos objetivos seleccionados para este plan. Estos grupos son: a) los chilenos que residen en el exterior y que mantienen vínculos de diversa índole con Chile y que requieren la ejecución de uno o más servicios jurídicos en nuestro país, y b) los extranjeros que tengan la intención de hacer negocios o inversiones en Chile y que diariamente se acercan a las diversas oficinas consulares chilenas en el exterior requiriendo información de cómo ejecutar dichas gestiones dentro del territorio de nuestra república. Se ha delimitado el público objetivo en 114 mil personas, cuyo mercado se valora en no menos de US$11,4 millones anuales. La compañía se focalizará en seis tipos de servicios de acuerdo a las necesidades señaladas por los consultados en las encuestas efectuadas a potenciales clientes, esto son: mandatos judiciales, legalización de documentos, elaboración de contratos, constitución de sociedades, tramitación de posesiones efectivas y la representación ante tribunales de justicia y servicios públicos. El contacto de los clientes se realizará a distancia por medio de la utilización de tecnología existente en un moderno portal web que permita no sólo el contacto, sino que también realizar el pago y el seguimiento de los servicios que se contratan con la compañía. De esta manera, la compañía agrega valor al entregar un servicio profesional de alta calidad, el que se acomoda a estándares internacionales, sin limitaciones de fronteras ni de idiomas y con un compromiso fundado en el conocimiento del negocio y en la experiencia de trabajo multicultural e internacional. Con un horizonte de evaluación de seis años, el capital inicial requerido asciende a US$85 mil y se estima que el payback se produzca al tercer año de funcionamiento. El Valor Presente Neto Total de este negocio asciende a los US$177 mil y la TIR es de un 93%. Los principales riesgos están dados especialmente por la variable Cantidad de Prestaciones . Para abordar esta variable y otros riesgos-, se ha elaborado una estrategia de promociones que permita, por un lado crear sólidas relaciones con los clientes y, por otro, lograr un expedito flujo de información con los consulados. De esta manera, se promoverá el conocimiento de la compañía entre potenciales nuevos clientes. Gracias a las características de la compañía, la que está orientada a la prestación de servicios, sumada a una moderada inversión inicial, se permitirá el desarrollo de este emprendimiento, sin necesidad de adquirir financiamiento externo, lo que trasciende en que el dominio o propiedad de Legal Advisor Chile permanecerá en su integridad en los socios fundadores.
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Rieder, Markus S., and Jonas Menne. "Internal investigations - legal situation, possible options and legal-political need for action." Universität Leipzig, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33904.
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In June 2018, the German Constitutional Court decided on the search of a law firm and the securing of documents and data in the firm’s premises by the Public Prosecutors’ Office. The Court rejected the respective constitutional complaints and regarded the prosecutions’measures as lawful. The Court’s orders received immense public attention as the constitutional complaints were filed by Volkswagen AG, Jones Day, and the firm’s lawyer in connection with the “diesel emissions scandal”. Besides, the orders were discussed intensely among legal experts, as the Court severely limited legal privilege in Germany. This article examines the Court’s orders and its consequences, in particular with regard to internal investigations. In addition, the authors draw a comparison with legal privilege under U.S. law and discuss possible options to avoid extensive disclosure of documents and data. Finally, they demand legislative action and request the legislator to provide adequate safeguards for internal investigations.
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Яковчук, Роман Святославович, and A. M. Kazybrid. "Normative legal aspects of legal work, as part of civil defense development." Thesis, Правозахисна та правоохоронна діяльність: європейський досвід та українські реалії. Legal and law enforcement activity: European experience and Ukrainian reality: тези доповідей та повідомлень здобувачів вищої освіти (іноземними мовами) / за заг. ред. канд. філол. наук, доц. І. Ю. Сковронської. – Львів: ЛьвДУВС, 2017. – С. 49-51, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3775.
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Yie, Andoh Ernest Nyame. "THEORETICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA." Thesis, Сучасна правова освіта: [матеріали VIІ Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, Київ, Національний авіаційний університет, 23 лютого 2018 р.]. – Тернопіль: «Вектор», 2018, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/32828.
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Mommers, Laurens. "Applied legal epistemology : building a knowledge-based ontology of the legal domain /." Leiden : L. Mommers, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39245919w.
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Ruffolo, Lyndsay Danielle. "Exploring the influence of legal and extra-legal factors in bail decisions /." Abstract and full text available, 2009. http://149.152.10.1/record=b3080022~S16.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Jennifer Hedlund. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Criminal Justice." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-48). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Bennett, Daniel. "ORGANIZATIONS, RELIGION, AND LEGAL MOBILIZATION: THE CASE OF CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/780.
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This dissertation is a study of a social movement based on the organizations that define that movement, with specific attention to Christian conservative legal organizations (CCLOs) and their advocacy for the Christian Right in American politics. I ask, how do these organizations differ from one another in their advocacy efforts? How is this movement industry structured with respect to organizational networks? And how do the differences and variation among these organizations affect the dynamics among these groups? That is, how do organizations interact in the confines of a shared movement? This study addresses the literatures on law and society, religion and politics, and social movements, acting as a bridge between these distinct areas of inquiry. Using social network analysis, qualitative content analysis, and original interviews with movement attorneys, I find that CCLOs differ in their behaviors in their industry of activism and in their interaction with other CCLOs. I further argue that these behaviors are best understood in terms of unique organizational characteristics like structure, expertise, and relations with other groups. I conclude that organizations bearing surface similarities to one another can actually differ in meaningful ways, ways that facilitate and drive interaction among these groups in their shared movement and movement industry.
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MCHUGH-RUSSELL, Liam. "Limits of legal evolution : knowledge and normativity in theories of legal change." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/63284.
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Defence date: 13 June 2019Examining Board: Professor Stefan Grundmann, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Claire Kilpatrick, European University Institute; Professor Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Simon Deakin, Cambridge University
Over the last forty years, legal theory and policy advice have come to draw heavily from an ‘evolutionary’ jurisprudence that explains legal transformation by drawing inspiration from the theoretical successes of Darwinian natural selection. This project seeks to enrich and critique this tradition using an analytical perspective that emphasizes the material consequences of concepts and ideas. Existing theories of legal evolution depend on a positivist epistemology that strictly distinguishes the objects of social life—interests, institutions, systems—from knowledge about those objects. My dissertation explores how knowledge, and especially non-legal expertise, acts as an independent site and locus of transformation, mediating the interaction between law and social phenomena and acting as a catalyst of legal innovation. Prior work by Simon Deakin has integrated insights from systems theory to show how the interaction between law and economic institutions can only be properly understood by attending to the epistemic frame law uses to interpret economic practice. Using a case study on the impact of ‘law and finance’ literature on World Bank policy advice and, consequentially, on legal reforms adopted by many developing countries between 2000 and the present, I show that such attention to legal knowledge is inadequate. The case points, first, to the contingency of the intellectual tools used to understand legal institutions. Rather than deploying a determinate rationality, private and public actors address legal, economic, and ethical problems using a variety of paradigms: viewpoints are not determined by realities. More fundamentally, the cases suggest that successful paradigms, rather than economic or political realities alone, shape the dynamics of socio-legal change. My conclusions address some normative questions that arise when researchers in a social scientific mode are implicated in the processes they seek to document.
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Zhao, Xiao. "Legal issues on lotteries." Thesis, University of Macau, 2008. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1944068.
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Bix, Brian. "Wittgenstein and legal determinacy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fd66944d-fc4b-4b67-8824-3c820900b49f.
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In the jurisprudential literature, much attention has recently been given to the role of language within law, with various writers asserting that certain theories of meaning or theories of interpretation offer new insights into the nature of law. My survey of portions of this on-going debate will have two overlapping foci: the issue of legal determinacy and the application of Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas to legal theory. In the context of a number of different discussions, I argue that a proper understanding of the nature of language and its role within law compels neither the conclusion that law is radically indeterminate nor the conclusion that law is completely determinate. I disagree with the usual reading of H.L.A. Hart on "open texture", arguing instead that Hart's argument was as much about the proper way to apply legal rules as it was about the nature of language. I offer a reading of Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations which differs from Saul Kripke's reading as well as from the reading some legal theorists have offered, and which I believe justifies only a modest view of the direct applicability of Wittgenstein to jurisprudence. I argue that Ronald Dworkin's recent work leaves a number of unresolved questions regarding right-answer theories and that there are basic difficulties with his holistic-interpretative approach to law. Finally, I discuss Wittgenstein's critique of platonism as part of an argument that Michael Moore's metaphysically realist approach to law offers no advantages compared to more conventional approaches.
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Waye, Vicki Catherine. "Markets for Legal Claims." Faculty of Law University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1585.
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PhDAccess to justice is an important human right that ensures adequate redress for harm, and which consequently helps deter future wrongdoing. Without access to justice citizens are precluded from the full enjoyment of their economic and social entitlements. The cost of litigation is a significant impediment to access to justice. Although the courts have attempted to increase access to justice by broadening the range of available dispute resolution options and by improving productivity through the implementation of case flow management systems, the cost of prosecuting claims remains disproportionately high and unaffordable for most small to medium sized claimholders. Legal claim assignment to parties able to aggregate claims and to apply their expertise as litigation entrepreneurs to deal with claim prosecution efficiently is one means of redressing the imbalance between the cost of claim prosecution to individual claimholders compared to the value of their claims. However, the well-entrenched doctrines of maintenance and champerty prohibit legal claim assignment. The continued resort to the doctrines of maintenance and champerty despite a strong and independent modern judiciary reflects distaste for claim commodification. However, the advent of litigation funding and its acceptance by the High Court of Australia in Campbell’s Cash and Carry v Fostif Pty Ltd (and to some extent United Kingdom and United States courts) on access to justice grounds has challenged conventional maintenance and champerty dogma. Together with other measures such as the introduction of conditional fee agreements that shift the cost of funding access to justice from the public to the private purse, the resistance to full claim alienability has been significantly weakened. The thesis argues that full claim alienability is favoured on normative and efficiency grounds and examines developments in Australia, England and the United States, which portend toward claim commodification. In addition, the thesis examines regulatory instruments required to ensure that the present partial claim market and the potential full claim market operates fairly and efficiently. It also considers how claim commodification may affect the relationship between legal practitioners and claim holders. [Please note: For any information on access to the full text please conact the author.]
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Anderson, Scott Alan. "Legal indeterminacy in context." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1162267088.
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Lovell, Christine. "Legal discourse on rape /." Title page, contents and synopsis only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl899.pdf.
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Marmor, Andrei. "Interpretation and legal theory /." Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/277092086.pdf.
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Stavropoulos, Nicolas E. "Objectivity in legal interpretation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334241.
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