The dignity owed to every person should not cease with death.1 The processes by which individuals and societies across cultures and religions care for, honour and mourn their

dead provide the necessary closure to families and their communities. When this is disrupted through improper protection and/or disrespectful treatment of the dead, [...]

Background The Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) provides a basis for nation states to limit the political effects of tobacco industry philanthropy, yet progress

in this area is limited. This paper aims to integrate the findings of previous studies on tobacco industry philanthropy with a new analysis of British American Tobacco's [...]

Article considers whether a new tort of inducing a breach of trust would be a welcome development in English law. Such a new tort would inevitably have similar characteristics

to the existing tort of inducing a breach of contract namely, that the defendant (1) acted with the requisite knowledge of the existence of a trust and (2) deliberately [...]

This chapter will address the social and legal problems of transmission of digital assets on death. It questions whether existing well-known systems of laws and norms for transmission

of property and assets on death are fit for the purpose of bequeathing the new “digital assets”. [...]

Sport is a strategic asset in fostering national integration and strengthening social capital due to its inherently democratic nature, prioritizing brotherhood even amidst

intense competition on the field. The fundamental values that often save a nation from disunity are deliberation and consensus, and problems in sport are ideally [...]

There are many problems found in the civil aspect these days, which are diverse and complex, so comprehensive arrangements are needed to fulfil all civil rights in humans as

one of the subjects of civil law. This research will specifically discuss the state of Afwezigheid as a shareholder of a limited liability company where the assets [...]

The United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) is both a relatively new institution, established in 2009, and an old institution, inheriting many of the practices of the Appellate

Committee of the House of Lords. The creation of the Court was accompanied by a debate – which has continued since the Court's creation – about the extent to [...]

We welcome the prospect of Guidelines on Article 102 TFEU and endorse the stated aims of the Draft Guidelines (ie, enhancing legal certainty, helping undertakings to self-assess,

and guiding the National Courts and National Competition Authorities). From an economics perspective, we also welcome the possible use of rebuttable presumptions [...]

This Article identifies and analyzes the de facto and de jure end of lawyers' exclusivity over the practice of law in the United States. This development will have profound

implications for the legal profession, the careers of individual lawyers, and the justice system as a whole. [...]

Since the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, legal actions regarding the dying have become commonplace. Unfortunately, so has legal misinformation, misapplication, fantasy, and inhumanity.

We seem to have frightfully underestimated the ability of lawyers to focus on trivia and self protection, and to ignore the basic human rights of dying persons. [...]