Daniel Hemel (Chicago) & David A. Weisbach (Chicago), The Behavioral Elasticity of Tax Revenue: This article presents a new measure of the efficiency consequences of tax policies
and explains how this new measure can shed light on a wide range of tax law debates. [...]
The Law and Justice party, having won an absolute majority of Sejm (lower house) seats in the recent parliamentary elections, will continue to govern Poland for the next four
years. This news must have come as a great disappointment to those many people who have put so much time and effort into defending the rule of law in Poland against [...]
En librairie le 25 octobre 2019 . Une montagne de femmes rassemble dix-huit instants de vie, insolites et troublants, qui racontent la femme d’aujourd’hui et celle
des temps anciens. [...]
With the High Court’s judgment from June 11th 2019, judge Michael Elburu suspended section 164 a and c and section 165 of the Penal Code from 1965 which punish same-sex relations
in Botswana with up to seven years in prison and ordered to modify section 167. In recognising the discriminatory nature of the laws in question, the Botswanan High [...]
In Mushfig Mammadov and Others v Azerbaijan [2019] ECHR Application No 14604/08 [in French], the five applicants were Jehovah’s Witnesses. They told their local military
recruitment offices that they wanted to be exempted from compulsory service on grounds of conscience and, in the case of most of them, to perform alternative civilian [...]
Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University, Law Faculty) has posted Common Law Tort of Negligence as a Tool for Deconstructing Positive Obligations under the European Convention
on Human Rights (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2019) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines how the common law tort of negligence as [...]
Law.com, Minority Partners Disproportionately Placed in Nonequity Partnership Tier: Minority lawyers disproportionately occupy the nonequity partnership tier of the nation’s
largest-grossing law firms compared to their white colleagues. An American Lawyer analysis of 148 firms with two-tiered partnership structures, 131 of which ranked [...]
The Spanish Supreme Court has finally issued a ruling on the trial to the Catalan secessionist leaders for the facts occurred in September and October of 2017 – namely, the
passage of the referendum and the independence acts, several demonstrations, the referendum of October 1st, and the declaration of independence in October 27th. [...]
2018 – ouvrage revisite la « question carcérale » en décortiquant ses enjeux contemporains. En Suisse comme en Europe, la délinquance juvénile attise les sensibilités
publiques et nourrit les discours sécuritaires. Parallèlement, les mineur e s sont progressivement reconnus comme des sujets de droit, dont il faut protéger l’intégrité [...]
