For many social scientists, government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while others associate it with high trust and low corruption. We
aim to reconcile these contrasting views by distinguishing the opposing effects of trust on two alternative types of government intervention: regulation and redistribution. [...]
The title comes from a judgment I gave earlier this year.11 I was talking about the format of the statutes, which emerged from the Tax Law Rewrite project. A key feature of
the inclusion of statutory ‘signposts’ which as I put it are there ‘to give clear pointers to each stage of the taxpayer’s journey to fiscal enlightenment’. [...]
AbstractThe move towards harmonization of International Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regimes has attained importance during the last two decades and has been almost universally
adopted by the international community. Member States of the United Nations, and Inter-governmental Organizations like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), have [...]
AbstractThe article deals with the study of constituent instruments of international organizations (IOs). The author analyzes constituent instruments of IOs and determines
their peculiarities. The article defines charters of IOs as a more complex instrument than a multilateral agreement. [...]
AbstractThe Civil Nuclear Liability for Damages Act of India enacted in 2010 has been a matter of concern to international suppliers and vendors. This is due to the perceived
deviation of the law from the principle of legal channelling of liability (to the operator) which is at the heart of international nuclear liability jurisprudence. [...]
AbstractFrance enacted the Claeys–Leonetti law in 2016, becoming one of the first countries to legalize terminal sedation as a medico-legal practice in the world. The focus
of this short paper is to highlight the limitations imposed by Claeys–Leonetti on the doctor to fulfil his or her ethical duties under the Hippocratic oath to act [...]
AbstractWales is about to undergo a radical change to the legislative process. In line with the recommendations of the Law Commission in the report Form and Accessibility of
the Law Applicable in Wales, Wales will soon see its first modern legal codes. A decision will need to be made on how the law in Wales will be codified and in what [...]
AbstractWith a clear emphasis on substantive political value that national legislatures are able to bring to the EU legislative process, this paper attempts to overcome skepticism
about deepening national parliaments’ direct involvement in the decision-making process at the European level. [...]
