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Laws, Volume 11, Issue 5

October 2022 - 15 articles

Cover Story: We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted for 17 attacks on his patients during December 2013–February 2014. We note parallels with the cases of nurses Lucia de Berk (the Netherlands) and Daniela Poggiali (Italy), in both of which an initial conviction for multiple murders of patients was overturned after the reopening of the case. We pay the most attention to the investigative processes by which data, and not just statistical data, are generated; namely, the identification of past cases in which the nurse under suspicion might have been involved. We argue that the investigation and prosecution of such cases are vulnerable to many cognitive biases and errors of reasoning in terms of uncertainty. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,103 Views
33 Pages

19 October 2022

In the tradition of legal writing about landmark intellectual property cases, this paper provides an in-depth case study and analysis of an important copyright conflict during the COVID-19 crisis. The Internet Archive established the National Emergen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,420 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2022

The quest for safe, orderly and regular migration underpins the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and translates into “comprehensive and integrated” responses to large movements of refugees and migrants. The effort to de-compartmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,320 Views
15 Pages

Implementation of Good Practices in Environmental Licensing Processes

  • Emiliano Lobo de Godoi,
  • Thiago Augusto Mendes and
  • André C. S. Batalhão

12 October 2022

One of the main command and control mechanisms for the environment is the environmental licensing process. However, the isolated adoption of this mechanism has not satisfactorily ensured the environmental quality of natural resources. On the other ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,453 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2022

The relevance of the research stems from the wider spread of contract conflicts and legal disputes caused by verbal and numerical ambiguity of certain contract terms, given the absence of a special legislative rule to overcome such ambiguities. The w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,455 Views
13 Pages

2 October 2022

The European financial regulation is evolving with new and specific forms of cooperation for the member states, enhancing concepts and innovative rule of law, particularly featuring the actual level of harmonization. This paper investigates the Europ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,792 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2022

Contemporary case law in the United States surrounding the establishment clause of the federal Constitution has entered a period of remarkable uncertainty. Now is an appropriate time to revisit the legal foundations of the Supreme Court’s semin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,730 Views
11 Pages

29 September 2022

South Korea introduced the artificial intelligence impact assessment and was the first case of introducing the artificial intelligence impact assessment as national-level legislation. Artificial intelligence impact assessments will be helpful in deci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,548 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2022

This article examines the contribution of restorative practice and therapeutic jurisprudence in community courts, which have adopted a problem-solving approach. Through interviews with stakeholders, it explores the implementation of the community cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,003 Views
15 Pages

Gender and Sentencing in Lithuania: More Mercy for Women?

  • Artūras Tereškinas,
  • Rūta Vaičiūnienė and
  • Liubovė Jarutienė

8 September 2022

This article focuses on the structure of female and male crimes and gender disparities in sentencing in Lithuania, which present a significant gap in criminological research. Using Lithuanian court decisions on five types of offenses—murder, gr...

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