Si on la compare avec l’habituelle coercition infligée au condamné à mort dans le monde romain, la peine réservée au parricide ne manque pas de surprendre par son originalité.
Le coupable est chaussé de sabots de bois, sa tête est ensuite recouverte d’une cagoule en peau de loup et il sera ensuite flagellé à l’aide de verges sanguines. [...]
Why does #RepealedThe8th matter for feminist legal studies? The answers seem obvious in one sense. Feminism has long constituted itself through the struggle for sexual and
reproductive justice, and Irish feminism has contributed a significant ‘legal win’ with the landslide vote of approval for lifting abortion restrictions in the [...]
In mehreren europäischen Mitgliedstaaten werden die Sickstoffdioxid-Grenzwerte der Luftreinhalterichtlinie seit Jahren überschritten und somit Unionsrecht verletzt. Die EU-Kommission
hat im Mai 2018 den letzten Schritt des Vertragsverletzungsverfahrens eingeleitet und Klage gegen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland erhoben. [...]
Lively discussions on civil liability of companies’ directors towards the creditors of financially distressed companies have been going on for decades. Recent trends in Lithuanian
case law, however, show that, in parallel, creditors of private limited liability companies have also shifted their focus to other real masters of business—controlling [...]
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 ended the prohibition on female jurors. This did not mean that English and Welsh juries became representative institutions overnight,
however: the property qualifications ensured that juries were still drawn from the top few per cent of the local population; and the 1919 Act expressly permitted [...]
This paper focuses on the potential impact of the statutory authority defence on HS2 once the line is put into operation. The defence was forged in the heat of the railway
revolution. It protects operators from liability in nuisance in respect of certain harms resulting from exercising the statutory powers under which the scheme is [...]
There is an ongoing debate amongst hate crime scholars about the categories of victims that should be included within hate crime legislation. Some commentators argue that affording
protection to groups based on predefined characteristics results in many victims being excluded from the legislation. [...]
The Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015 entered into force on 13 April 2015. It is too soon for it to have been considered judicially, and it has not yet been
subjected to sustained academic analysis. Accordingly, this article considers its impact. [...]
