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A Plural Nomos: Law, Life, and Knowledge
Even in its limited state-based form, human law owes its existence to the natural physical world with its self-created value systems. What is...
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International Law
International law has developed as a system of legal rules and principles regulating relations between States. At its core is the principle of the...
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Kierkegaardian Ethics and the Rule of Law
We approach law with deep ambivalence. On the one hand, we take immense pride in living under the rule of law. On the other hand, we often catch...
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Extremely Relational Robots: Implications for Law and Ethics
This Commentary critiques an extremely relational view of robot moral status, drawing out its practical implications for ethics and law. It also...
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Earth System Law
The existing body of international environmental law has been created in the context of a relatively stable and harmonious Holocene epoch. This...
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Self-Legislation and the Apriority of the Moral Law
Marcus Willaschek and I have argued against the widespread assumption that Kant claims the Moral Law—the supreme principle of morality—is (or must be...
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Ethics: An Impossible Politics—Perversion, Law and Racial Difference
This paper takes the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol in the summer of 2020 and the accompanying Black Lives Matter protest as a political...
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Investigating and preventing scientific misconduct using Benford’s Law
Integrity and trust in that integrity are fundamental to academic research. However, procedures for monitoring the trustworthiness of research, and...
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Reconfiguring Sovereignties Through the Law: Indigenous Patrimonialization in the Americas
Since the last third of the twentieth century, the indigenous peoples of the Americas have claimed their sovereignty. There, it is possible to...
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Civic Action Against Son Preference in Tirupati, India: Critical International Law Put into Practice?
In this paper based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to critical scholarship in international law by providing an investigation into the...
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Swords and diamonds—Thich Nhat Hanh on the law of identity
The Diamond Sutra is one of the earliest and most treasured of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and had a wide influence on the development of Zen...
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A Philosophical Case for Holding That the Second Law of Thermodynamics Is Only a Special Law of Nature, and Not a Universal Law
Even despite A.S. Eddington’s stern warning to the effect that any serious theoretical challenge to the universality of The Second Law of...
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Cross-jurisdictional Data Transfer in Health Research: Stakeholder Perceptions on the Role of Law
Large data-intensive health research programmes benefit from collaboration amongst researchers who may be located in different institutions and...
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A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law
BackgroundIn this study, we examined the ethical implications of Egypt’s new clinical trial law, employing the ethical framework proposed by Emanuel...
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The Robot and Human Futures: Visualising Autonomy in Law and Science Fiction
This article argues that legal discourses about robots are framed within a limiting ‘human paradigm.’ While this is not a specific failure of...
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Human Rights Legal Education in Times of Transition: Perspectives and Practices of Law Instructors in Myanmar
This mixed-methods study examines the human rights and human rights education and training (HRET) perspectives and practices of law educators in...
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Money in Imperial Roman Law
The chapter explores the Roman law of money and the treatment of money-related issues by Roman jurists in the Imperial period. Roman lawyers dealt...
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The Role of the Law in Critical Theory: An Engagement with Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth
This paper discusses the role of Law and Legal Thinking in Critical Theory with specific reference to the arguments that Michael Hardt and Antonio...
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Game analogy in law reconsidered: is evidence at stake?
The aim of this paper is to show that the meaning and significance of legal evidence is being constituted throughout the course of a singular...
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The explanatory nature of constraints: Law-based, mathematical, and causal
This paper provides an analysis of explanatory constraints and their role in scientific explanation. This analysis clarifies main characteristics of...