Introduction: Implicated Legal Subjects

Editor's Introduction to "Legal Worlds and Legal Encounters" -- OPEN ACCESS

This introduction presents and draws together the articles and themesfeatured in this special issue of The Medieval Globe, “Legal Worlds and LegalEncounters.”

Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory

an introduction to concept of legal regulation

next to mechanisms, methods and instruments and classic public bodies to administer, there are new independent administrative and public authorities equipped with various skills and attribution, composed of soft law and hard law to regulate the public fields. the multiplicity of forms of regulation show the composite nature of regulation, which is between the private and public domain: laws, co...

The historical, ethical, and legal background of human-subjects research.

The current system of human-subject-research oversight and protections has developed over the last 5 decades. The principles of conducting human research were first developed as the Nuremberg code to try Nazi war criminals. The 3 basic elements of the Nuremberg Code (voluntary informed consent, favorable risk/benefit analysis, and right to withdraw without repercussions) became the foundation f...

Global artificial photosynthesis project: a scientific and legal introduction.

With the global human population set to exceed 10 billion by 2050, its collective energy consumption to rise from 400 to over 500 EJ/yr and with the natural environment under increasing pressure from these sources as well as from anthropogenic climate change, political solutions such as the creation of an efficient carbon price and trading scheme may arrive too late. In this context, the scient...