Laws, Volume 14, Issue 4

Apologies can offer solace and compensate for intangible and emotional harm in social and legal contexts. In some areas of law, an apology offered by a defendant will be factored into the assessment of damages awarded to vindicate the plaintiff&rsquo...

Moral injury is a discrete form of harm affecting individuals as a potentially avoidable consequence of exposure to a morally injurious event. That injury (independent of psychological injury or illness) has been identified as a cause of physical sym...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the creative landscape and challenging traditional copyright frameworks historically focused on human authorship. As AI-generated works become increasingly common, legal systems worldwide are confronted wi...

The post-pandemic world has seen a large shift to hybrid working, including for staff at European universities. Under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, European Union law, and the related non-discrimination law of the EU M...

The agony of medical negligence for all involved is well documented. Health practitioners involved in harm events are described in the literature as “second victims”. Injured patients report that clinical negligence litigation is traumati...

This study explores the challenges and theoretical transformations that the widespread application of AI technology in social governance brings to the protection of citizens’ fundamental rights. By examining typical cases in judicial assistance...

Justice Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) have long been regarded as the scholarly source for a nationalist account of the U.S. Constitution in Antebellum America. Yet recent scholarship has questioned...

Environmental crime has been increasingly recognised as transnational organised crime, but efforts to build a coherent and effective international response are still in development and under threat from shifts in the funding landscape. This mixed met...

This article examines the accessibility of public space for individuals with disabilities in the Netherlands, as well as the relevant legal frameworks intended to promote accessibility. It discusses the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabi...

This study focuses on the position of civil law research in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus scientific databases. Two of the most reputable university rankings, the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai University Rankings) and the Tim...