Using the information content of surnames to measure social mobility, it is shown that the true intergenerational correlation of social status is in the order of 0.7-0.8, much higher than is estimated by conventional methods. This intergenerational correlation is similar across dramatically different societies: medieval England, modern England, pre-industrial Sweden, modern Sweden, the USA, Qui...

[The history of Australian company law has attracted remarkably little attention in academic literature, perhaps because it has mainly been seen as a copy of English law with few, if any, noteworthy features. This article points out several interesting and significant aspects of the evolution of Australian company law and considers this evolution in the context of the economic development of co...

Let me say in the beginning that I do not take it as my responsibility in this program to describe the teaching of international law in the United States. I would not dare to give my version with my colleague, Professor Stevens, an ex-colleague, Professor McWhinney, and other friends and associates present in the audience. I do not think, either, that I will attempt to make any comparison betwe...

of the English Law of Lunacy," with which he concludes his " Refutation."] " My own painful example must convince every impartial mind, that personal liberty, so jealously guarded in England by the law, is liable to be infringed with the greatest ease 011 the mere plea of lunacy. By the English law, the Lord High Chancellor, upon petition supported by affidavits, grants a commission to inquire ...

Human tissue is used in an increasing number of medical and scientific contexts. Despite this, the law has traditionally regarded such tissue as having no status in law. This paper provides an overview of the issue of property rights in human corpses, cadaveric specimens, donated living tissue, and human tissue used in biotechnology and human reproductive technology. It discusses Australian com...