BACKGROUND Immigration policies can cause significant public health consequences, posing detrimental social and health effects for migrants, their families and communities. Migrants often face obstacles to health due to access, discrimination, language and cultural barriers, legal status, economic difficulties, social isolation, and fear of deportation. The process of deportation has become mor...

This article considers the challenge that an English legal history of the category monster poses for Foucault’s genealogy of the abnormal individual. While the idea of the monster is not confined to law it is contended that the inauguration of the monster category into English law and its subsequent development provides a useful vantage point from which to critique Foucault’s position. While la...

The article is dedicated to defining the content and features of category international legal status an individual in modern domestic foreign historiography (late ХХ – early ХХІ century). paper provides analysis scientific views Ukrainian scientists on concept as a fundamental law. positions lawyers regarding structural elements system person are considered. question relationship between concep...

What this is not: The following discussion focuses only on U.S. copyright law. While noncopyright principles may also be mentioned, this discussion does not attempt to examine other legal principles that might apply to P2P filesharing, including patent, trademark, trade secret, or unfair competition. Nothing contained herein constitutes legal advice—please discuss your individual situation with...

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...

This paper analyzes the sources of heterogeneity in legal tax avoidance strategies across individuals. Three conditions are required for a taxpayer to participate in tax avoidance: incentive, access, and awareness. Using rich Swedish administrative panel data with a unique link between corporate and individual tax returns, we analyze individual participation in legal tax planning around the 200...

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...