In 1959 they entered a contract of mutual divorce and the husband returned to England where he is domiciled, and wishing to remarry there wanted first to ascertain the validity of his divorce. In view of the importance of this case, the Queen’s proctor was called in and he requested ...
Ruggie J (2011) Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Principles for responsible contracts: integrating the management of human rights risks into State-investor contract negotiations: guidance...
students from Shaw University staged sit-ins at Raleigh theaters and restaurants, protested at the Sir Walter Hotel where most members of the General Assembly stayed during the legislative session, and swarmed over the grounds of the Governor’s Mansion while Governor Terry Sanford hosted the annual...
“Telemedicine, self-managed abortion and access to abortion in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic,” chaired by Mariana Romero (Argentina). Speakers: Jade Maina (Kenya), Maria Mercedes Vivas (Colombia), Wendy V. Norman (Canada), Rodica Comendant (Moldova), Jasmine Lovely George (India)...
The suspension of disbelief to allow centralised management of collective intelligence is a new form of “swarm activism” in political conflict scenarios. A digital social contract with a post-modern, encrypted Leviathan. Perhaps a sophisticated “human botnet”, as Enric Luján has recently argued ...
Under Virginia law, when a dispute involves the transfer of goods or property, damages are measured by the difference between the asset’s actual value at the time of contract and the asset’s purported value if the representations made had instead been true. Courts have previously treated sales...
“[A]ctions to recover funds based upon life insurance contract obligations do not impress this Court as being of the calibre of the cases which have been allowed recourse to § 1350. Plaintiff has failed to indicate the impact of defendant’s conduct as violating the “law of nations.” ...
Coca-Cola is suspected of having engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the common market region via unlawfully restrictive distribution agreements — much is at stake, including a chance for the respondent to justify its contract provisions, and for the CCC to provide more detailed objective reason...
Few phenomena in world history have such a vivid imagery in popular culture as piracy. Law is a major element of those images, whether looking through its
accepted as comprising ‘political risk’: (1) Confiscation, expropriation, or nationalisation of an investment; (2) Currency inconvertibility, (3) Damage from political violence from war or civil disturbance and (4) default on obligations, including breach of contract. Nadakavukaren (2013), p...