Cities around the world are facing a global housing crisis characterized by rising unaffordability, slums, gentrification, inequality, and urban segregation. The Global Financial
Crisis highlighted the detrimental impact of highly financialized housing markets. [...]
In May 2024, the European Union adopted the Directive on violence against women and domestic violence, marking the first EU-wide binding legislation to address various forms
of sexualized and gendered harm. This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Directive’s provisions on image-based sexual abuse (“IBSA”), [...]
In this work, I address the “demarcation problem” in law, which invites us to look for the essential properties distinguishing law from nonlaw. First, I introduce the main
terms of the discussion, which has seen the traditional view that law is a distinctive practice with its own distinguishing properties pitted against the critical [...]
The accepted approach of competition law to non-horizontal mergers, largely based on the Chicago School of Antitrust Law and Economics paradigms, is criticized on both sides
of the Atlantic as too lenient, disregarding developments of economic theory, and no longer adequate in the reality of the digital economy. [...]
The question of when and how a European consensus or trend contributes to shaping rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols is controversial.
The European Court of Human Rights quite often performs an analysis of the laws and practices of the Council of Europe’s Member States or of relevant international [...]
The wide and deep participation into legislation is a crucial means for the CCP to govern the Chinese Party-state. This Article examines how the CCP as a legislating Party
acts in the state legislation as well as in its own internal legislation and what influences the Party’s legislating behaviors bring to the socialist rule of law. [...]
This study examines the influence of firms' proactive ESG strategies (PESGS) and slack resources on ESG disclosure quality and firm value in Japanese companies, using a cross-sectional
sample of 107 firms. The findings reveal that PESGS and slack resources positively influence firm value, with ESG disclosure quality mediating the relationship between [...]
It is important to study what drives policymakers' tolerance for burdens because they adopt the policies and processes that organise citizens' encounters with the state. Relying
on theories on account giving and rationale transparency, we argue that policymakers are more burden tolerant when provided with a justification for the existence [...]
