Legal Theory and Real Property Mortgages

Spatially-referenced Legal Property Objects

Delivering sustainable development requires effective management of social, environmental and economic aspects of land. Historically, land administration systems have contributed to this by recording and organising interests in land, primarily through land registration, land mapping, land valuation and land development subsystems. Unfortunately these subsystems have established diversified serv...

Jurisprudential Legal Explanation of Confiscation of Property in Drug Crimes

Drug crimes, regardless of the economic consequences, have threatened public and individual health and determined the international community to combat them effectively. Therefore, in the laws in question, confiscation of property is considered as a punishment for criminals of drug crimes; while from a jurisprudential point of view, this punishment has faced challenges. The findings of the pres...

Mortgages and monetary policy

How is monetary policy transmitted through its impact on mortgage borrowings? How does this transmission mechanism depend on whether mortgages are fixed or floating rate? To address these questions, we add a model of financial institutions’ behaviour to a dynamic general equilibrium model in which some households face credit constraints. We use this model to analyse the real effects of inflatio...

The legal self: executive processes and legal theory.

When laws or legal principles mention mental states such as intentions to form a contract, knowledge of risk, or purposely causing a death, what parts of the brain are they speaking about? We argue here that these principles are tacitly directed at our prefrontal executive processes. Our current best theories of consciousness portray it as a workspace in which executive processes operate, but w...

Legal Theory Construction