Databased of International Law Journal and Research Center
Class actions are designed to provide claimants a mechanism by which to enforce their rights with objectives including achieving access to justice, being compensated, and deterring misconduct. The significant impact of class disputes on society brings both common law and civil law countries’ attention to the promotion of more efficient enforcement. Jing-Huey Shao
In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) found that the global surface temperature increased faster between 1970 and 2020 than during any other fifty-year period over the last 2,000 years.2 Between 2011 and 2020, annual average Arctic sea ice area reached its lowest level since at least 1850, and global mean sea level Read More …
Concepts like freedom and liberty motivate Americans on the global stage. This has racial implications past and present. Exploring these arguments, this Essay: (1) reviews Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America and (2) proposes a framework to identify law’s place in these Read More …
Andrew M. Pardieck, Vanessa A. Edkins & Lucian E. Dervan
Weighing principles and considering rules in the context of judicial adjudication to create a general theory of State and Law is a challenge of hermeneutics that the Author makes. To meet this challenge the Author uses a decision of an administrative court in Portugal – the Tribunal Administrativo Central Norte. The factpattern of that decision Read More …
Each society as it exists through time has a particular philosophy of history. This point, where “ . . . historical and political theory meet” is “a set of ideas about what happens, what can be known and what [is] done” in a society.1 This philosophy of history is intimately intertwined with the foundational myths Read More …
In 2013, ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked information that revealed the extent to which several countries, including the United States, developed a global surveillance system capable of collecting and sharing a massive amount of information. A direct consequence of the Snowden disclosures was the public backlash against large technology companies, who in turn strengthened security Read More …
The extension of anti-money laundering (AML) controls to lawyers has been an object of controversy since the early 2000s. Facing these measures, the legal profession has adopted different strategies of response, three examples of which are examined and contrasted in this Article. In the United States, the legal profession vocally objected to the measures and Read More …
The United States and New Zealand, two democratic and progressive nations, rely heavily on incarceration structures plagued with institutional racism as their primary form of justice. Several international standards, most notably the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-Custodial Measures, advocate for more contextinclusive justice systems that focus on the social and economic factors that Read More …