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Laws, Volume 13, Issue 2

April 2024 - 14 articles

Cover Story: This article responds to the assertion that the recognition of religious corporations as litigants in religious discrimination claims departs from international human rights law, which only protects the rights of natural legal persons. Adopting the current legislative debate in Australia as a case study, this article argues that under international law, states should protect the ability of religious groups to be litigants, including corporations. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights requires that state parties ensure the right of individuals to manifest their beliefs in communities, as well as affording such communities protection against religious discrimination. This entails granting religious groups the ability to pursue legal measures to preserve the enjoyment of these rights by their members. View this paper
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Articles (14)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,311 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2024

The conflicting objectives of the Energy Charter Treaty’s (ECT) protection of fossil fuel investments and climate change mitigation can reveal themselves in investor state dispute settlement (ISDS). As neither the modernization nor the terminat...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4,796 Views
18 Pages

1 April 2024

South African criminal law has no separate, distinct, or novel cultural defence. Such a defence could negate or mitigate an accused’s criminal liability for a culturally motivated crime. Whether South Africa’s criminal law could adopt suc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,546 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2024

The principal purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the precautionary principle can be included in the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) deliberative process by providing a legal solution that would permit the invocation and impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,375 Views
12 Pages

26 March 2024

When the critical legal studies (CLS) movement emerged in the United States, many in the legal community were shocked by the movement’s radical calls to remake legal education. But the movement also presented bold criticisms of quantitative leg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,807 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2024

Multiple civic crises facing American constitutional democracy—deepening political polarization and dysfunction, loss of confidence in major institutions and professions, and collapse of confidence in higher education—can be simultaneousl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,604 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2024

The Directive 2008/52/EU of the European Parliament and Council of 21 May 2008, regarding certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters, does not seem to have been designed for online mediation since it does not expressly include rules...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,322 Views
19 Pages

Neurolaw: Revisiting Huberty v. McDonald’s through the Lens of Nutritional Criminology and Food Crime

  • Alan C. Logan,
  • Jeffrey J. Nicholson,
  • Stephen J. Schoenthaler and
  • Susan L. Prescott

21 March 2024

Recent studies have illuminated the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods, including poor mental health, aggression, and antisocial behavior. At the same time, the human gut microbiome has emerged as an important contributor to cognit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,780 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2024

The Australian Human Rights Commission has claimed that recognising religious corporations as litigants in religious discrimination claims departs from international human rights law, which only protects the rights of natural legal persons. In this a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,964 Views
20 Pages

Narrative Review of Legal Aspects in the Integration of Simulation-Based Education into Medical and Healthcare Curricula

  • Andreta Slavinska,
  • Karina Palkova,
  • Evita Grigoroviča,
  • Edgars Edelmers and
  • Aigars Pētersons

14 March 2024

The quality of healthcare varies significantly from one country to another. This variation can be attributed to several factors, including the level of healthcare professionals’ professionalism, which is closely linked to the quality of their e...

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Laws - ISSN 2075-471X