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Law, Legislation and Liberty
Routledge eBooks
lawlegislationfreedomlegal theorypolitical philosophy
DOI: 10.4324/9781315887685
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Law's Empire
In this reprint of Law's Empire,Ronald Dworkin reflects on the nature of the law, its given authority, its application in democracy, the prominent role of interpretation in judgement, and the relations of lawmakers and lawgivers to the community on w...
nature of lawlegal authoritydemocracyjudicial interpretationlegal judgment
Difficult (12.4)
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Law and Finance
Journal of Political Economy
This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the quality of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common‐law countries generally have the strongest, and...
investor protectionshareholder rightscreditor protectioncommon lawcivil law
Very Difficult (15.4)
DOI: 10.1086/250042
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Laws and Symmetry
Abstract Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality, and that conception played a role in the birth of modern physics some centuries ago, but today physicists speak in terms of symmetry, transformations, and invaria...
laws of naturesymmetryinvariancenecessityuniversality
Very Difficult (20.1)
DOI: 10.1093/0198248601.001.0001
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Law and Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal
This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the quality of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common law countries generally have the best, and Fren...
investor protectioncorporate lawshareholder rightscreditor protectioncommon law
Very Difficult (15.3)
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Soft Law and the International Law of the Environment
bepress Legal Repository
Because the existing body of international environmental law has, in part, emerged on the basis of "soft" norms, it provides a good field for observing the general sociological and juridical phenomenon termed "soft" law. The 1972 Stockholm Declaratio...
soft lawinternational environmental lawStockholm Declarationstate practicelegal principles
Very Difficult (15.9)
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The Law of Peoples
One aim of this essay is to sketch in a short space-I can do no more than that-how the law of peoples may be developed out of liberal ideas of justice similar to but more general than the idea I called justice as fairness and presented in my book A T...
law of peoplesinternational lawjustice as fairnessinternational normsA Theory of Justice
Difficult (12.3)
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Laws and symmetry
Introduction Part I: Are there laws of nature? What are the laws of nature? Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws Necessity, worlds, and chance Universals: Laws grounded in nature Part II: Belief as rational but lawless: Inference to the best ...
laws of naturesymmetryDavid Lewisnecessityuniversals
Difficult (11.2)
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The Spirits and the Law
University of Chicago Press eBooks
alcoholic beverageslaw
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226703817.
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Law
Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
lawenvironmental lawsustainable development
DOI: 10.1080/00139157.1991.9929978
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Vegard’s law
Physical Review A
Vegard's law is an approximate empirical rule which holds that a linear relation exists, at constant temperature, between the crystal lattice constant of an alloy and the concentrations of the constituent elements. Applications of a density-functiona...
Vegard's lawlattice parametersalloy compositionbinary mixtureshard spheres
Very Difficult (22.0)
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.43.3161
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The Concept of Law
Oxford University Press eBooks
Celebrated for their conceptual clarity, titles in the Clarendon Law Series offer concise, accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought. The Concept of Law is an important work of legal philosophy. It was first published fifty years ...
H.L.A. HartThe Concept of Lawlegal theoryprimary and secondary rulesrule of law
Difficult (13.1)
DOI: 10.1093/he/9780199644704.001.0
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Law, Legislation and Liberty
Philosophical Studies
lawlegislationfreedomlegal theorypolitical philosophy
DOI: 10.5840/philstudies19742344
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Law and Economics
1. An Introduction to Law and Economics. 2. A Review of Microeconomic Theory. 3. An Introduction to Law and Legal Institutions. 4. An Economic Theory of Property. 5. Topics in the Economics of Property Law. 6. An Economic Theory of Contract. 7. Topic...
law and economicsmicroeconomic theorylegal institutionsproperty lawcontract law
Moderate (8.5)
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On the Rule of Law
Cambridge University Press eBooks
The rule of law is the most important political ideal today, yet there is much confusion about what it means and how it works. This 2004 book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule of law ideal, beginning with classical Greek...
rule of lawhistory of the rule of lawmedieval legal thoughtliberal theoryconservatism
Very Difficult (15.1)
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511812378
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Blockchain and the Law
Harvard University Press eBooks
blockchainlawblockchain regulationsmart contractsdistributed ledger technology
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2867sp