Recent research on the geography of NGOs in Global Civil Society yearbooks has emphasized a north-west European bias. This has been taken to imply that global civil society is but a pale geographical shadow of the power concentrations in global economy and governance. Using an interlocking network model and data on 74 global NGOs with offices across 178 cities, NGO connectivity values for citie...

time limitation is one of the legal institutions of the domestic law. this institution is more welcomed in the civil law system compared to the common law. immunity, amnesty and time limitation are the most important obstacles in the ending of impunity culture. immunity is a international phenomenon, whereas amnesty and time limitation are considered as domestic elements. international criminal...

Can we assume that the effect of early institutions is persistent over time? Work by La Porta, Lopez de Silanes, Shleifer, and Vishny, also known as the “law and finance” literature, implicitly argues that the legal tradition countries inherited or adopted in the far past has an important long-term effect on financial development. They argue financial development is related to the extent countr...

Our article is a methodological critique of the recent legal origins literature. We start by showing that the legal origins literature cannot easily be based on the efficiency hypothesis of the common law. By debunking the relationship between the efficiency hypothesis and the legal origins literature, we are left with no consistent theory to explain the alleged inferiority of French civil law....

The article analyzes the problem of forming patriotism and citizenship during period students ’ education in higher educational institutions. Educational work is considered as an integral part activity a institution. goals objectives legal civil patriotic education, its role formation fullfledged citizen patriot their country are formulated. reveals successful experience individual institutions...