Legal Pluralism in Settling Inheritance Disputes in Besemah, South Sumatera

Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization

Louise Johannesson (2018): Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization. Örebro Studies in Economics 38 This cumulative dissertation consists of five self-contained essays, all of which are closely focused around issues that concern the WTO dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). In Essay 1, we describe salient features of the DSM using a unique data set. We observe a spike in new disputes in ...

The Internet, Legal Regulation and Legal Pluralism

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

Disputes and Pluralism in Modem Indonesian Land Law

Environmental Tribunals as a Mechanism for Settling Disputes

* Chairman, National Environment Tribunal, Kenya. Former Director, UNEP. This paper draws from earlier papers on past colloquia in Kenya, two for High Court Judges (January and April 2006) and one for East Africa: the Court of Appeal Judges for Kenya, Tanzania and Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, Uganda. I acknowledge the research and other contributions of Judy Gitau of Kaniaru & Kaniaru Adv...

Modeling Relevant Legal Information for Consumer Disputes

Accessing relevant legal information found in text excerpts from heterogeneous sources is essential to the decision making process in consumer disputes. The Ontology of Relevant Legal Information in Consumer Disputes (ric) is the domain-independent ontology modeling this relevant legal information comprising rights, their requisites, exceptions, constraints, enforcement procedures, legal source...