The Internet has been referred to judicially as "the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that ... the world ... has yet seen"; as a "far more speech-enhancing medium than print" and a "never-ending world-wide ...

Summary: This thesis addresses the process, drafting and passing of the Penitentiary Act 1779 accompanied by an evaluation of its immediate consequences in the final two decades of the eighteenth century. Through an ...

In March 1998, an ink drawing by George Romney was sold at Agnew's for £17,500. In the catalogue it bore the title 'Torment - Scene in a Lazaretto' and that title recalls a number of other scenes by Romney executed in the ...

The practice of international peace missions has become a very challenging area of research. They were initially established within the United Nations (UN) system, under the inherent powers provided by the UN Charter to ...

Seeking a middle ground between the realist school thought, that the biggest gun makes the rules, and the idealist school, that national governments can pursue common interests, Olusanya (law, U. of Wales-Aberystwyth) sets ...

Under traditional international law governed by the concept of state sovereignty, any alleged responsibility for international wrongdoings used to be attributed to the state alone. Indeed, the role of an individual in ...

Some early research examining the use of computer-generated animation (CGA) in legal settings [e.g., Kassin, S., & Dunn, M.A. (1997). Computer-animated displays and the jury: facilitative and prejudicial effects. Law and ...

The state of marine fishery resources globally and particularly in Nigeria is a matter of considerable concern. Hitherto, international and Nigerian fisheries laws, as well as the opinions of legal scholars on how to address ...

Arguably one of the seminal challenges of the twenty-first century will be the place of public international law, particularly in its manifestation in what may be termed the global security system. The importance of this ...