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Showing posts with label criminal law. Show all posts

Showing posts with label criminal law. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Nuisance law and forced labor

I recently participated in the great Legal Histories of Empire conference that met in Maynooth, Ireland. There were a number of papers on en...

Monday, October 24, 2016

All the elements of tragedy were there

(courtesy Old Merthyr Tydfil ) Friday marked the 50th anniversary of the horrific Aberfan disaster, in which a mountain of coal waste bu...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Israeli (and Ottoman and Islamic) public trust doctrine

Chapter heading from the Hebrew translation of the Mejelle by Frumkin Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz 's environment reporter, recently wrote...

Monday, September 21, 2015

Institutions for water control

from Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland Following up on yesterday's post on bonds issued by early modern Dutch water agencies , an ea...

Monday, August 10, 2015

Statute consolidation and the forest for the trees

While reading up on statute consolidation and revision in 19th-century Britain, I came across (thanks to Desmond H. Brown, "Abortive A...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Law in the wake of the Exxon Valdez

Elisabeth Fontugne has posted " Dismantling the Exxon Valdez: How Misunderstanding One Maritime Accident Led to the Criminalization of ...

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