"LEGISLATION AGAINST NATIONAL INTEMPERANCE."

2011 national legislation and transnational feminism

Contemporary feminist scholarship seeks the development of transnational conversations between women in different geopolitical spaces in order to confront the problems of a global age. Yet, if these conversations are predicated on Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of South/North, first/third world and metropole/colony, feminism risks replicating these dichotomies in the name of a unive...

Arguments against helmet legislation are flawed.

The seven deadly curs’d sins … Intemperance

Thank you for the case of wine which was delivered today; what a splendid birthday present! You certainly know my weakness and I hope that there will always be a Beaune of contention between us. I often think I should have taken up the molecular biology of the grape rather than messing about with worms and fish. There could have been an Institut de Oenologie Moleculaire and we might even have s...

Legal Conditions for Renewable Energies: a Comparison of National Legislation

The European energy sector has been undergoing significant changes since the beginning of the liberalization process in the UK in 1989. In 2003 major parts of the electricity sector in Europe have been liberalized and the remaining parts will follow during the next few years. This paper focuses on the promotion of renewable energy sources as an alternative to fossil fuels when aiming at a susta...

Queensland's proposed surrogacy legislation: an opportunity for national reform.

Surrogacy has existed since Biblical times when Hagar, the maidservant of the infertile Sarah, acted as a surrogate to bear Sarah and her husband, Abraham, a son. Despite the longevity of the practice of surrogacy, modern society has been reluctant to embrace surrogacy arrangements due to the ethical and sometimes practical debates they spark. This reluctance is evidenced by the general lack of...