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Electronic signature law update: Turkey
Get PDFAvukat Özgür Eralp provides an up-date to the electronic signature laws of Turkey, setting out the full history of electronic signature legislation and recent legislative developments.
Index words: Turkey; electronic signatures; legislation; update 
Briefing Note: The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly – unforeseen and unjust consequences
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The presumption that computers are reliable in England and Wales is proved to be wrong. Nicholas Bohm, James Christie, Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bev Littlewood, Paul Marshall, Stephen Mason, Martin Newby, Steven J. Murdoch, Harold Thimbleby and Martyn Thomas CBE
Index words: England and Wales; presumption computers are reliable; proposal to rectify 
‘Lost in Transplantation’: The de Facto Recognition in Hong Kong of Bigamy in Ma Siu Siu Vivian v Tam Wai Mun Alice
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Case translation: Spain
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Audiencia Provincial de Lleida, Sección 2ª, Sentencia 74/2021 de 29 Ene. 2021, Rec. 158/2020(Provincial Court of Lleida, 2nd Section, Judgment 74/2021 of 29 Jan. 2021, Rec. 158/2020)Name and level of the court: Provincial Court of LleidaDate of decision: 29 January 2021
Spain; electronic signature; DocuSign system; credit agreement; private documents; proof of signature; burden of proof; certification of signature; qualified certificate; legally recognised digital signature certification entit
Human Rights, China and the UN: A UPR Mid-term Assessment
Get PDFKeywords: human rights; Universal Periodic Review; China; Xinjiang; Hong Kong
Rutland Revisited: Reflections on the Relationships between the Legal Academy and the Legal Profession
Get PDFThis paper explores the multiple and multifaceted relationships between the legal academy and the legal profession in England and Wales. It does so by mirroring the approach of William Twining in his ‘Visit to Rutland’ in Blackstone’s Tower. In drawing on hypothetical happenings in two fictitious law schools and a fictitious law firm, the paper offers commentary on the many points of contact between lawyers and scholars. What is made clear is that these interfaces are often ad hoc and that the legal academy acts as if it needs the profession more than the profession needs it. This may well be the case. What we see then is the modern-day Blackstone’s Tower in the shadow of Cravath’s mansion.
Keywords: legal profession; legal education; Qualifying Law Degree; Solicitors Qualifying Examination; ‘core’ subjects; diversity; Blackstone’s Tower
Gender, Sexuality and the Law School: (Re)thinking Blackstone’s Tower with Queer and Feminist Theory
Get PDFThis article will focus on exploring gender and sexuality within the law school. Largely silent from Twining’s ‘grand tour’, these two areas are now key parts of the law school landscape, having become firmly established as key elements of law school discourse and legal scholarship in the years since Blackstone’s Tower was published. The Blackstone’s Tower of Twining’s imagination was, Twining suggested, ‘holding up a mirror to a familiar world’, and it was a world that made only passing reference to gender and no reference to sexuality. Feminism is mentioned twice in 244 pages, whilst queer—still emergent within legal scholarship in 1994—is not referenced at all. A once radical and vital text can perhaps appear antiquated to today’s readers. Yet, this should not be regarded as a criticism of the text but rather a reflection of how the law school and legal scholarship has transformed since 1994. Whether in the number of gender and/or sexuality and law courses that now permeate through the UK law school, or the extraordinary growth first of feminist scholarship and more recently queer scholarship, the law school has been profoundly impacted by socio-legal shifts in gender and sexuality research. This is scholarship that does not merely serve as ‘another’ theory or an addendum to jurisprudence, for these theories have offered the ability to reshape the very architecture of the law school and to re-imagine Blackstone’s Tower for what it is and what it can be. This article seeks to explore that journey and offer a glimpse of future possibilities.
Keywords: legal education; gender; sexuality; queer; feminism; gay; pedagogy; LGBTQ; teaching