Monthly Archives: August, 2024
Kumar and Chaudhary, ‘Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: Issues and Concerns’
ABSTRACT Prior to recent times, originality and inventiveness were exclusively human activities and their protection systems, namely, intellectual property (IP) law, are set up in a way that motivates and enhances human creativity. Technology today, such as artificial intelligence (AI), is challenging this ancient and self-evident assumption. This chapter analyses issues pertaining to authorship of […]
Luke McDonagh, ‘Exploring authorship and ownership of plays at the time of William Shakespeare’s First Folio’
ABSTRACT In this this article I evaluate how authorship of theatre occurred in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. I explore whether individual playwrights such as William Shakespeare were viewed as authors, and thus owners, of plays at this time. I analyse the role of the Stationers’ Company as print monopolists, and the role of Elizabethan […]
Grajzl and Murrell, ‘From Status to Contract? A Macrohistory from Early-Modern English Caselaw and Print Culture’
ABSTRACT Most development models emphasize a growth in the scope of individual choice as the law becomes impartial, relevant to all. An early expression of this conceptualization appeared in the 19th century, when Henry Maine coined his celebrated dictum that progressive societies move from status to contract. We conduct a macro-historical quantitative inquiry into Maine’s […]
Jack Beadsworth, ‘The Migrant Personal Work Relation: A New Category of Employment’
ABSTRACT The relationship between UK immigration law and labour law is increasingly intertwined and complex. Migrant workers are regularly incorporated into the labour market on an unequal and instrumental basis as economic commodities. A central aim of this paper is to expand our conceptual understanding of the legal nature and form of migrant employment. I […]
Steven Shavell, ‘Continuances and Uncertainty in the Course of Adjudication’
ABSTRACT The myriad uncertainties common to the process of adjudication – concerning evidence that opposing parties will present, legal issues that will become relevant, illness of witnesses, and the like – lead to two social problems. First, when unanticipated events occur, the information that parties will be able to provide to courts may be inadequate. […]
Guillaume Vuillemey, ‘The Origins of Limited Liability: Catering to Safety Demand with Investors’ Irresponsibility’
ABSTRACT Limited liability is a key feature of corporate law. Using data on asset prices and capital flows in mid-19th century England, I argue that its liberalization was not decided to relax firms’ financing constraints, but to satisfy investors’ demand for ‘safe’ stores of value. Limited liability eliminated adverse selection about the quality of other […]
Call for Papers: ‘Technology and Humanity: Enabling, Restricting or Prohibiting’: IALT Annual Conference, Maynooth University, 15-16 November 2024
The Council of the Irish Association of Law Teachers welcomes papers on all areas of substantive and procedural law and on any issue relating to legal education. Presentations are not restricted to the theme of the conference, although abstracts engaging with the theme are of course also welcome. Participants are also encouraged to propose panels […]
‘Perhaps Geography is Everything’
Noah M Kazis, ‘The Radical Fair Housing Act’, 111 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming, 2025), available at SSRN (February 27, 2024). Is geography fate, as Ralph Ellison proclaimed; is geography our destiny; does it determine our life’s course? I tend to think so because my own personal life story has been incredibly, indelibly, positively impacted by […]
Peter Chau, ‘The Comparative Account of Tort Reparation’
ABSTRACT How can tort reparation be justified? Stephen Perry’s comparative account relies on two ideas: (1) the loss arising from an injurious event should be distributed between the injurer and the victim rather than be borne by society at large; and (2) the distribution of loss between the injurer and the victim depends on a […]
‘Call for Blog Pieces for BACL’s new “Judicial Creativity and Recent Reforms of the Law of Obligations” Series’
The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) is pleased to announce a call for blog pieces for its new ‘Judicial Creativity and Recent Reforms of the Law of Obligations’ series. In recent decades, many jurisdictions have carried out substantive reforms of their laws of obligations … (more) [British Association of Comparative Law, 12 July 2024]