the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is certainly not new to law. it has long been known in domestic law systems. however, for public international law the issue of conflicting jurisdictions is relatively new. since the early 1990s we have witnessed an indisputable proliferation of international courts and tribunals endowed with the jurisdiction to deal with certain areas of international law...

This article offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates conscious operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations. Its agenda is to link formal (mathematical) descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The argument has two parts: the first calls on the lawful dynamics of any (weakly mixing ergodic) s...

The Planet-4D model introduced by Baroin 2011b is a richer model of pitch-class relationships than the standard cyclic model of the clock-face diagram: instead of the distribution of twelve points on a circle in a 2D plane, the Planet-4D model places the twelve pcs on a 4D hypersphere. Beyond the usual T/I group of symmetries, which is still featured in this new musical space, the additional di...

Editor—Gornall is embarrassingly out of date in his detailed analysis of the B case (which was dealt with by the family courts nearly three years ago), and its relevance to proposed changes in the law to make the English family court system more transparent. Since then, notwithstanding the ever increasingly exaggerated claims from some quarters that opening the family courts would harm children...