Łukasz Jan Korporowicz. Roman Law in Eighteenth-Century England. Teaching, Studying, Scholarship. Łódź: Lodz University Press, 2019, 237 Pages This review presents a book recently authored by Korporowicz on the presence of law eighteenth century The is divided into five chapters that deal with following issues: 1) teaching ius civile Oxbridge, 2) outside universities, 3) study and obtaining for...

This commentary offers a perspective from another common law jurisdiction, specifically the law in England and Wales, where competency to stand trial on a criminal charge is known as fitness to plead. The commentary begins with a discussion on the principle of proportionality evident in health care decisions by way of comparison with the topic in the criminal arena. Fitness to plead is an histo...

Despite difficulties associated with the law of causation, it could be much clearer than it is. The aim of this paper is to present a framework which provides an acceptable explanation of, and justification for, the pattern of the cases and the statutory provisions. The discussion is intended to cover the criminal law of Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand.

These remarks, prepared for the “Issues in Community Economic Development” conference at Western New England College, provide a brief overview of the law and economics literature on urban economic development. I conclude with a set of principles for legislative reform. ∗ Professor of Law and Paul J. Liacos Scholar, Boston University; [email protected].

Much of the literature on eugenics and the law deals with legislation in the first half of the twentieth century permitting eugenic sterilisation, particularly in the US and Nazi Germany. [1] Fortunately, England did not enact such legislation. [2] Unfortunately, English law has not escaped eugenic influence. This paper considers the influence of eugenics in the second half of the twentieth cen...