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Vecākās zemnieku tiesības
1927
Cultural Heritage as a Legal Hybrid. Between Public and Private Law
2022
Presents the legal concept of cultural heritage in the context of international public and private law Adopts a broad perspective on cultural heritage while presenting current challenges and emerging trends Provides recent legal challenges in the area of cultural heritage that have to be considered by policymakers
African Legal Hybridity: Interaction of Western, Islamic and Native Law in the Comorian Legal System
2010
The article deals with the issue of legal hybridity in the African context using Comorian law as a case study
EU Law Lecture Handouts
2018
The subject “Legal Institutions of the European Union” includes, to a great extent, the study of European Union (EU) Law. This legal order comprises not only the supranational normative aspects governing the structure and the internal functioning of the EU (its institutional system, the European legal order, its competences, etc.), but also its legal/political nature and the relationship of the EU with its Member States, as well as with third countries and other international organisations. This document labelled “EU Law Lecture Handouts” is essentially a short summary of each lesson, following the structure of the course official syllabus. This document also provides outlines and more visu…
Legal integration in Africa and the approach to energy issues: Which way forward?
2018
The Article examines how legal integration can contribute to the improvement of the use of energy in Africa
Accuracy and Preferences for Legal Error
2020
We study the interactions between accuracy and standards used in the determination of legal liability. First, we show that accuracy and type-1 errors (wrongful findings of liability) must reduce each other's effectiveness in mitigating optimal type-2 errors (wrongful failures to assign liability) for previous results in the literature to hold. When this condition holds, for major crimes the median voter's tolerance for type-1 errors is reduced as the legal system's accuracy increases. However, this relationship need not hold for minor offenses. Our analysis also reveals that legal processes that emerge under electoral pressures convict more often than is optimal but less often than necessar…
Using an extended version of the theory of planned behaviour to predict smoking cessation in two age groups
2011
The aim of this study was twofold: (i) to test the utility of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in predicting intentions to quit smoking and subsequent behaviour in two age groups, and among women and men, and (ii) to examine whether descriptive norms, moral norms and past behaviour predict intentions and behaviour beyond the impact of the TPB components. Analyses were based on data from a prospective sample of 447 daily smokers (adolescents 16–19 years, n = 174, M = 17.5, adults 35–55 years, n = 311, M = 44 years). The TPB accounted for 31.8% and 38% of the variance in intentions in the adolescent and adult groups, respectively. The extension variables added 12.6% and 12.1% to the …
Paulson's Nomological Normativity
2013
In some of his recent work Stanley Paulson puts forward a number of important and ambitious exegetical claims about Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Some of these claims are not novel in Paulson’s rich Kelsenian corpus. But, taken together, these claims now amount to the main outlines of a fully-fledged interpretation of the theoretical foundations of the Pure Theory of Law. Paulson holds that (1) contrary to what Joseph Raz, Carlos S. Nino and many others have claimed, there is, in the Pure Theory of Law, no “justified normativity” thesis. Kelsenian normativity is, rather, “nomological” normativity. (2) ‘Validity’ is not, in the Pure Theory of Law, a matter of the reasons norm-subjects ma…
Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the “Freed Field of Light”
2000
The twentieth century is a contradiction-ridden time. Without warning it combines grandiose Utopias and apocalyptic reasonings. It bottles up tragic contradictions, a feeling of insecurity, at times manifestations of despair and feverish activity. In the eyes of a considerable part of society man has lost his divine image, his place in the system of universal value. Consciousness of the loss of sense, the loss of absolute values forms a peculiar background for the cultural processes of the twentieth century. It is this loss of sense that may be the basis for its dualistic and even tragic vision of the world.
Algorithms as legal norms: About extending traditional legal safeguards for regulations enacted by public administrations to the algorithms used by p…
2020
En este trabajo se argumenta que los algoritmos empleados por parte de las Administraciones públicas para la adopción efectiva de decisiones han de ser considerados reglamentos por cumplir una función material estrictamente equivalente a la de las normas jurídicas, al reglar y predeterminar la actuación de los poderes públicos. Adicionalmente se estudia cómo, una vez asumida esta naturaleza jurídica reglamentaria de estas herramientas de programación, se deducen consecuencias jurídicas respecto de cómo han de realizarse los procedimientos de elaboración y aprobación de estos algoritmos, la necesidad de que los mismos estén debidamente publicados como normas jurídicas que son o la exigencia …