Recovering legal fictions: an introduction

Authetic Fictions: Simulation, Professionalism and Legal Learning

Authentic Fictions: Simulation, Professionalism and Legal Learning

Simulation is one of the major applications of the web in education and training as well as entertainment, but has until recently received relatively little attention in higher education. It is becoming increasingly clear that simulations can be used for educational purposes; but one of the key issues affecting such use is the extent to which simulations can be regarded as authentic learning ac...

Living Legal Fictions: Constituting the State or Submerging the Signifier

This is an inquiry into the ways the state is constituted as an effective legal fiction. It is based on the premise that the state was not constituted, once and for all, some three centuries ago (as Bourdieu suggests) but that the existence of the state relies on continuing legal and social processes. The focus is on the translation from the legal to the social, specifically the semiotic intera...

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...

Legal approaches to the obesity epidemic: an introduction.

In the spring of 2003, the Public Health Advocacy Institute, whose mission is to explore law in common cause with public health, held its first annual conference on " Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic. " The goal of this groundbreaking conference was to initiate a national examination of a crucial policy question: How can the law play a role in counteracting the public health threat pres...