Algis Miélis n’a que treize ans quand il effectue son premier grand voyage. En juin 1941, lui, sa famille et ses voisins sont déportés de Lituanie vers la Sibérie. Jusqu’à
son retour inespéré à Vilnius, Algis trouve la force de survivre au quotidien éprouvant d’un camp soviétique grâce à la folie douce d’une tante nippophile [...]
An Open Letter to the 2020 Presidential Candidates: It’s Time to Tax Us More Bloomberg News, ‘We Are Part of the Problem’: Billionaires and Heirs Demand Wealth Tax Forbes,
'Tax Us'? No, Very Few Rich People Would Love To Pay Higher Taxes Forbes, Wealth Tax: That Pesky Constitution Might Get... [...]
One of the contested issues in this debate relates to similarities and differences between scoring systems in China and in the West – how unique is China? In this post, we
will try to reconcile the different perspectives, arguing that both commonalities and differences exist, depending on the adopted level of abstraction. [...]
Perhaps the first and very pleasant thought that will strike readers of Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law is that the medium is not the message. The book is
about the impossibility of reconciling norms that pull in different directions. The writing, however, achieves the feat – not impossible, but very difficult – [...]
Aux États-Unis, tous les ans, environ 650.000 personnes sortent de prison ; beaucoup vont y retourner. Bruce Western et son équipe de recherche ont suivi 122 de ces « sortants »
pendant une année. [...]
In my second post on the report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, I will discuss some of its most interesting legal findings.
The key finding, obviously, is that Saudi Arabia is responsible for committing an extrajudicial execution in violation of Mr Khashoggi’s right to life. [...]
Nadia N. Sawicki (Loyola-Chicago School of Law, Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy) has posted Defining The Known Risk: Context-Sensitivity In Tort Law Defenses (12
J. Tort L. 9 (2019)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The law of negligence is designed to apply uniformly across contexts. [...]
Customary international law is law that “results from a general and consistent practice of states followed by them from a sense of legal obligation.” “International agreements
create law for states parties thereto and may lead to the creation of customary international law when such agreements are intended for adherence by states generally [...]
Will Smiley, Reed College published From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law with Oxford University Press in 2018. From the publisher: The
Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept--the prisoner of war. [...]
Christopher G. Bradley (University of Kentucky College of Law) & Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky - College of Law) have posted Art in the Age of Contractual Negotiation
(Kentucky Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN Here is the abstract: Artists have always loved to hate the art market. [...]
