Should the (EU’s) Unitary Patent Come? - Taking the Constitutional Complaint in Germany More Seriously -

Taking National Courts More Seriously ?

Opinion 1/09 on the draft agreement for a unified patent litigation system reveals a degree of scepticism and distrust on part of the ECJ when it comes to the European Union’s international co-operation, especially its participation in international frameworks for dispute settlement. The Opinion not only made it far more complicated to achieve the aim of a unified patent litigation system in Eu...

Taking the Right to Appeal (More or Less) Seriously

Taking the Pirahã Seriously

We propose first order formal theories Γn, with n ≥ 1, and Γ = ⋃ n≥1 Γn, which can be roughly described as follows: each one of these theories axiomatizes a bounded universe, with a greatest element, modelled on Sergeyev’s so-called grossone; each such theory is consistent if predicative arithmetic I∆0 + Ω1 is; inside each such theory one can represent (in a weak, precisely specified, sense) th...

Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

BACKGROUND Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for analy...

Taking the People Seriously ( I )

The subtitle of Professor Goldstein's timely and important book is "The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand." Essentially, Professor Goldstein contends that the Court must explain its constitutional decisions in a manner that is comprehensible to the public because continuing public consent is the true source of the Court's legitimac...