Changing Conceptions of Rights to Water?--An Eco-Socio-Legal Perspective

Standards and intellectual property rights: an economic and legal perspective

The authors are concerned with the reconciliation of private rights that intellectual property rights (IPRs) represent with the public benefit deriving from properly developed technical standards. One of the key difficulties in achieving this aim is that IPRs are increasingly perceived as conflicting with other norms; in particular, the relationship between intellectual property law and competi...

From Needs to Rights—A Socio-Legal Account of Bridging Moral and Legal Universalism via Ethical Pluralism

The question of the universality of human rights has much in common with the question of the universality of ethics. In the form of a multidisciplinary reflexive survey, the aim of this article is to show how human rights discourses derive from more basic principles related to basic needs. These needs are the universal grammar for moral principles, which will be distinguished from ethical norms...

The Changing Nature of Debt and Equity: A Legal Perspective

Historically, the law has distinguished sharply between debt and equity, and between the duties a corporation owes to its stockholders and those it owes to holders of its debt securities and its other creditors. Over the past several years, changes in the business world, particularly the increase in leveraged buyouts and the use of nontraditional forms of securities, have put a strain on the tr...

Changing to Gray: Decentralization and the Emergence of Volatile Socio-legal Configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

The views presented in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the INTRODUCTION Donor and development organizations have prescribed decentralization to promote accountability and transparency, public participation in policy making and democratization. The donor agency and development administration literature considers the types of decentralization, the dyn...

From cannibalism to caesareans: two conceptions of fundamental rights.