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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, and the history of philosophy). This article focuses on the intersection of just two of those points...

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 simultaneously debut on Shanghaifabu, the city government’s WeChat account, and Bilibili. At the e...

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 veil, his contribution on the Supreme Court bench is analysed in a hefty critique stemming from a C...

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 both a professional and a personal concern for Porter. Porter’s claim relates to an online article �...

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 recent trends in global rights-based climate litigation, climate security, and gendered and racialize...