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Bix on Postema on Dworkin & Conventions Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted Protestant Interpretation, Conventions, and Legal Truth (Thomas Bustamante & Thiago Lopes Decat (eds.), Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J. Postema (Hart Publishing, 2020)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Gerald Postema has made influential contributions to many parts of legal philosophy (as well as moral philosophy, political philosophy, ...

By:Zhao Chunyuan  |   From:english.eastday.com  |  2021-06-29 23:07 On June 29th, “Out of Poverty: Not One Less-Treasure Hunt Games”, a publicity campaign of achievements in China’s poverty alleviation, jointly presented by Bilibili and Fusion Era, was launched at the Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. On July 2, a series of illustrations called “Out of Poverty: Not One Less” and the interactive game called “Treasure Hunt Games” will ...

07 April 2021 When your career path forks, which way will you go – the Supreme Court or Strictly Come Dancing? Two new-ish books will help you decide. First, what is going through the mind of Lord Sumption, the appellate answer to Craig Revel Horwood? A crack team of academics and practitioners investigate – in the commercial law sphere anyway, as Challenging Private Law from Hart Publishing pre-dates the Covid restrictions which rile him so. From contract damages to piercing the corporate...

In 2019, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) flagged a potential future review of defamation law, reflecting that it “is widely regarded as complex, technical, and arcane”. In doing so the commission noted that ultimately “it is the responsibility of the attorney general to determine which matters are to be examined by the ALRC”. This issue of whether our defamation laws strike an appropriate balance between the right to reputation and to freedom of expression has now become bot...

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) This is the third event in the In Focus Series: “A Feminist EU in the World?” In this event we zoom in on the EU’s policies on Climate Justice and climate change from an (intersectional) feminist perspective. Annica Kronsell, Andrew Telford, and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh will explore the opportunities and pitfalls of EU climate change policies if carried out through a lens of Feminist Foreign Policy. The roundtable discussion will focus in particular on r...

alwyn 14.1.2.1.1 I think it is a desperate attempt by Robertson to try and set up the RBNZ as the people who cop the blame for the shambles that this Government has been making of the housing market for the last three and a half years. I suspect it will backfire on him (Robertson). Orr is far to smart to allow Robertson to get away with such a transparent attempt to pass the parcel. Orr is quite likely to take it as an invitation to tell Robertson, publicly, what he thinks...

Giving history a bright future By Wang Ru | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-13 08:01 Share Fifteen Days Between Two Capitals. [Photo provided to China Daily] Mixing fact, fiction and imaginative writing, author uses creative license to render the people and places of Ming Dynasty China in vivid detail, Wang Ru reports.  Events in 1424 have provided a surprising backdrop to a novel that is attracting a large readership. It proves that old adage th...

A selection of Vadehra Art Gallerys books. In Europe and other parts of the world, funding and national endowments support art and cultural institutions and citizens themselves demand intellectual engagement as an essential element of public life. There is, in the same way, a compelling need for investment in the arts in India, where a lack of wider public engagement further contributes to its absence. Perhaps it doesn’t help that the art world is often considered a world turned in o...

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF OPAC 2020 marks 20 years since the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). Ratified by 170 States, OPAC is an indispensable complement to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).  To celebrate this milestone, the Center for Children’s Rights Studies and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child planned a commemorative conference in Gen...