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The Necessity of Interdisciplinary Investigations for Proper Understanding of the History of International Law
Get PDFThe heroic notion of international law as a distinct discipline is often challenged by interdisciplinary scholarship, particularly by those who are committed to highlighting the legacy of colonialism on colonised peoples. This article will highlight the entrenched formalism in international law histories. This article laments ways in which orthodox work fails to canvass histories beyond the text of the covenants and treaties that constitute international law. This article will examine key examples that highlight the importance of individual actors and sociological concepts in framing historical issues. These examples show how interdisciplinary investigations allow for a holistic understanding of the nature of international law histories. In doing so, this article aims to provide a pathway to negate the direct and indirect censorial effects of a discipline such as international law on the rendering of international law histories
TRANSLATING ITALO CALVINO: HOW CLOSE READING AND COMPARISONS CAN ILLUMINATE THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE TRANSLATION PROCESS
Get PDFI have chosen to translate passages from two works by Italo Calvino (1923-1985) into English. The first, a novel, was his first publication, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, Torino: Einaudi, October 1947. Two English translations of it have been published: the first, The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Jonathan Cape, 1956, and the second, The Path to the Spiders’ Nests (including the author’s 1964 Preface, translated by William Weaver), by Martin McLaughlin, New York: Random House, 1998. It is the first of these that I have used as a comparison with my own translation. Interestingly, Colquhoun’s translation was re-published by Penguin in 2009 in a form revised by McLaughlin. Colquhoun (1912-1964) was a leading early translator of modern Italian literature into English. As well as those of Calvino, his translations of Manzoni and Lampedusa were highly successful. He was the first recipient of the PEN Translation prize
The Moderating Effect of Board Size on the Relationship between CEO Characteristics and Sustainability Disclosures
Get PDFPurpose: The paper examined the moderating effect of board size on CEO characteristics (CEO power (shareholdings and tenure), CEO gender and expertise) and sustainability disclosures in Nigeria.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The research design was ex-post facto with data collected from the annual reports of 70 non-financial listed companies in ten industrial sectors of the Nigeria Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2017. The theoretical frameworks were the agency theories, social roles, resource dependence and managerial power theories. The data was analyzed using the multiple regression analysis.
Findings: The findings revealed that CEO gender, shareholdings and tenure had a positive and a significant relationship with sustainability disclosures, CEO expertise had negative and significant relationship with sustainability disclosures. Moreover, the board size had no moderating effect on the relationship between CEO characteristics and sustainability disclosures.
Research limitations: The use of 7 items, disclosure indices to measure sustainability disclosures and delimitation of the study to the non-financial sector.
Practical Implications: There should be policy to appoint more female directors and CEOs as well as highly skilled and experienced independent and non-executive directors to the board. This will help to curtail CEO power and positively impact on the sustainability disclosures.
Originality: The paper examined how the board size moderates the relationship between CEOs’ characteristics (gender, expertise, power - shareholdings and tenure) and sustainability disclosures using evidence from an emerging market like Nigeri
On what Authority? In Search of a Legal Authority for Government Facilitation of "Media Ride-Along" Programmes and the Privacy Harm they Cause
Get PDFWhether it be through the tort of privacy or the Broadcasting Standards Authority, involuntary subjects of reality journalism have suffered sufficient harm at their inclusion to take legal action against the media. Utilising the TV series Border Patrol as a case study, this article looks at the role that government agencies play in facilitating this harm, rather than the media which produce and broadcast these programmes. The tort of privacy is adopted in this article as a framework to examine and establish the significant risk of privacy-related harm in this area. Following the proposition that the state must act under legal authority, it is argued that government agencies must have a clear legal basis for permitting production companies to enter and film passengers in the controlled border space, particularly given the high risk of privacy breaches. There does not appear to be any legal justification or authority for facilitating access to this space. Given these agencies' public assurances regarding transparency and privacy, they should identify and publicise this legal basis, alongside documentation of their interaction and co-operation with the media production company
A Law and Behavioural Economics Analysis of High-Cost Lending in New Zealand
Get PDFThe most interesting recent developments in economics have come from behavioural economics, which attempts to model how people will behave in real life situations. The insights offered by behavioural economics can also be applied to law. This article discusses law and behavioural economics generally, and then applies it to the New Zealand high-cost loan industry. The high-cost loan industry is responsible for a great deal of harm in New Zealand, and in 2019 Parliament passed sweeping amendments to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 to insulate consumers from that harm. Law and behavioural economics suggest alternative strategies to those amendments that can address the harms while retaining the benefits that high-cost loans can provide. This article designed an experimental survey to test one such strategy, and the results and implications for policy are discussed
What Dreams May Come
Get PDFWhat dreams may come is a piece of ethnofiction that tells the story of a young girl and her grandmother, displaced by the climate crisis and conflict. The story centres on the strong, abiding relationship between the girl and her grandmother. Their relationship is the anchor point for their survival in the new unhappy world that they find themselves in. As an anthropologist of displacement, this short story is an attempt to tell the story of climate crisis, displacement and conflict through a fictional lens, a place where fable and reality coincide and collide
Taking a Just Transition Approach to Practical Decision Making
Get PDFA just transition that achieves decent work for all, social inclusion and poverty eradication is unlikely to occur without active guidance. Much of the focus for making a just transition a reality is at a more abstract policy scale, and a gap exists for concrete guidance in achieving a just transition in a practical sense. This article provides two frameworks – at a project scale, and at an organisational scale – for assessing alignment with a just transition. It uses the example of energy to illustrate both the scale of the challenge being faced, and how such frameworks could be applied in practice
The Holidays Act: Will proposed changes solve the headaches?
Get PDFMore than 200 organisations across New Zealand have been found non-compliant with the Holidays Act since its enactment in 2003. Thousands of employees have been underpaid by a combined amount in the millions and employers have incurred significant costs to remediate and maintain compliance. This article considers the issues with the Act, the impacts, and whether the changes proposed by the Holidays Act Taskforce will address these issues. It then sets out an alternative approach
Making Socialism within Capitalism
Get PDFReview of Jonathan Boston, Transforming the Welfare State. Techno-welfarism as a solution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s decaying social security system
Frederick Tschopp, Landscape Architect, OE in New Zealand 1929-32
Get PDFFrederick Tschopp was a naturalised American of Swiss birth who had trained as a horticulturalist specialising in landscape architecture. He and his wife arrived in Auckland in September 1929 and he soon found work with some of the local bodies there. Works and Development in Wellington later employed him in designing gardens for several important government properties. This was not a permanent position however and about July 1931 he moved to Rotorua with a major contract to beautify the city, including extensive street plantings and an upgrade of the lake shore. Most of this work was well-received but there were some dissenting voices. The contract was terminated in November 1932, but with several goodwill gestures. While in Rotorua, Frederick had visited both Hamilton and Tauranga, commenting on landscape design aspects. The family (now with the addition of a son) left New Zealand for home in Los Angeles in late November 1932. Frederick had a subsequent career with the Department of Water in California and died at Laguna Hills, Orange, California in February 1980.The reasons for Tschopp's visit to New Zealand can be interpreted in two ways. Clearly the newspapers regarded him as an overseas expert with a talent for landscape design, still a fairly new concept in the country in the late 1920s. He undoubtedly stood out as an American with drive and initiative. But he was only 24 when he first arrived, and his motives may well have been to gain overseas experience (OE) to help his chances of obtaining a lucrative job on his return to America. One paper described him as being in the course of a world tour but there is no conclusive evidence for him having spent long in other countries at this time
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