by Yingxin (Emma) He What will happen after an international judicial body makes a binding decision that requires one state to comply with its obligations under international
law? It is quite natural for a lawyer to assume that it will establish a deterrent for other states and will lead to compliance with the law in the future. [...]
Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, described Trump’s decision as “a crime against humanity,” tweeting “every scientist, every health
worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity.”(HuffPost) The Trump administration’s decision to halt funding [...]
Alternative and Complementary Medicine bibliography Apologia This compilation is largely confined to books, in English. Its original motivation can be traced back to my
research and unpublished writing on Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) in conjunction with an abiding interest in Buddhism, in particular its relevance to the mind [...]
by Victoria Guijarro “Methods” and “interdisciplinary research” are somewhat mysterious in legal science. Unlike PhD theses in other disciplines, the introductory chapters
to doctoral theses in law, even well-written ones, almost always fail to include a sub-chapter about methods, while only a few present results of interdisciplinary [...]
The following is based on one section from Lawrence O. Gostin’s Global Health Law (Harvard University Press, 2014: 414-419). I have edited and re-written some of this material,
while what remains—in quotes—is from his book. [...]
»Die Anwaltschaft muss als systemrelevant eingestuft und bei Soforthilfen angemessen berücksichtigt werden«, so schreibt, mit Ausrufungszeichen am Satzende, der Präsident
der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer am 31. März 2020 an die Bundeskanzlerin und fordert Notbetreuung für Anwaltskinder und Finanzhilfen wie für Unternehmen. [...]
“Robeson Leroy Robeson was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political
activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth. [...]
Friedrich Engels’ act of socialist sublimation on behalf of value-laden and principled social scientific description and causal explanation: “’I forsook the company
and the dinner-parties, the port-wine and champagne of the middle classes, and devoted my leisure-hours almost exclusively to intercourse with plain working men,’ [...]
I have said in online fora and to my dear wife that I would not be creating any more new bibliographies, only updating at least some of the existing lists. But I have changed
my mind and hope this proves to be the sole exception. I was moved by the current pandemic to put together a basic list of requisite literature. [...]
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées This is an all-too-brisk and cursory introduction
to a profound subject that depends on presuppositions, assumptions and premises having to do with human nature, metaphysics (and philosophy more broadly), psychology [...]
