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SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2011/2012
No full textThe Annual Academic Law Library Survey provides a snapshot of the staffing, expenditure on acquisitions, subscriptions to databases and range of services provided in the academic year 2011/2012 by 92 university and college libraries in the UK and Ireland. It is the only survey of its kind and provides data which academic law library managers use to bench-mark their own services and law course validation bodies note when appraising the provision of institutions seeking to run law courses
The East Asian Journal of British History, vol. 3
Get PDFThe East Asian Journal of British History is produced by the East Asian Society of British History, and supported by the Institute for Historical Research.
The Institute of Historical Research is pleased and proud to be supporting this recent addition to British history scholarship. Developing out of the IHR’s long-standing collaborative partnership with Japanese universities, and now in its fourth year, the East Asian Journal of British History features some of the best emergent scholarship from Anglophone historians working in China, Japan, and South Korea.
Divided between an articles section and one devoted to reviews, the journal’s remit wide-ranging covering all fields and periods of British history. It complements the triennial Anglo-Japanese Conference organised by the IHR and Japanese historians based at the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and the conference of the East Asian Society of British history, in which we are joined by our colleagues from South Korea. In future, we hope that more contributions will be featured in the journal from the Chinese mainland and from Taiwan
Philosophy According to Tacitus: Francis Bacon and the Inquiry into the Limits of Human Self-Delusion
No full textBacon belonged to a cultural milieu that, between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, proved to be especially receptive to infuences coming from such continental authors as Machiavelli, Bodin, Duplessis-Mornay, Hotman, and, through Lipsius, a particular brand of Stoicism tinged with Tacitean motifs. Within the broader question of Tacitus’ infuence on Tudor and Stuart culture, this article focuses on the issue of how Bacon’s characteristic insistence on the powers of the imagination (fingere) and of belief (credere) in shaping human history may have infuenced his view that human beings suffer from an innate tendency to self-delusion
The Common European Sales Law proposal - European Private Law at the crossroads?
Get PDFIn this article Dr Maren Heidemann discusses arguments in favour and against the legal basis of the Proposal for the Regulation of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council on a Common European Sales Law (CESL), published as COM (2011) 635 final of 11 October 2011. It considers the international private law as well as some individual substantive rules of both the Regulation and the actual sales law. The author makes suggestions on how to adjust and complement this instrument in order to achieve what the EU legislator is setting out to do, and what the legal and trading community, including consumers need
Practical implementation of CRD III remuneration rules in the UK - issues and results
No full textProfessor Kern Alexander's report on the UK's regulation of banker's bonuses to the European Parliament on 30 January 2012. In the report, he argues for amending the EU Capital Requirements Directive's (CRD III) prescriptive approach for regulating bankers' remuneration and for a more flexible implementation approach for EU states
Egypt’s revolution one year on – the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak was just the start
No full textIn this Opinion, Sasha Simic, a long-standing democracy activist and trade unionist, argues that Egypt’s revolution
of the 25 January 2011 was a response to years of neo-liberalism which have made a tiny elite there obscenely
wealthy but which have impoverished the vast majority of its 85mn-strong population. The Egyptian masses, he
argues, have achieved miracles in toppling Mubarak’s brutal dictatorship – a tyranny to which Western powers gave
massive financial and military aid for 30 years – but the struggle cannot stop with Mubarak’s removal. The future of
the revolution is now being contested between various forces. The current leadership of Egypt – the military rulers of Scaf (the Supreme Council of Armed Forces) – wants Egypt to continue on its neo-liberal path. For these leaders, the revolution is ‘over’. They want ‘Mubarakism without Mubarak’ and are increasingly prepared to use lethal force to maintain ‘order’. But the masses on the streets and in the factories and the fields want what free-market dogma
has denied them – bread, work, land and a future worth living. The current world crisis has already discredited
neo-liberalism in the eyes of many millions who are searching for a better way to live. The outcome of the Egyptian revolution will have world-changing implications. If the masses can build an Egypt which starts from the needs of the people rather than the requirements of the ‘market’ they will be mapping out a path millions of others will follow.
Simic argues that the key to the outcome of the revolution rests with Egypt’s enormous working class. The argument at the heart of his Opinion is simple: another world is both possible and necessary. A victorious Egyptian revolution could lay the foundations for that world
Beyond the veneer of reconciliation: human rights and democracy in Rwanda
No full textIn this Opinion piece, PhD candidate Jennifer Melvin argues that Rwanda’s national unity and reconciliation
programme promotes two differing but inter-related political images at the domestic and international levels. She
analyses how these images are constructed and disseminated to the national population and international community
of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors and foreign investors. Jennifer argues that the current Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF) government successfully manipulates national reconciliation to bolster political support,
silence opposition and promote development that is primarily uneven. She urges the Commonwealth to look beyond
the appearance of unity, and reconciliation to consider the detrimental consequences of government programming
upon democracy and human rights in Rwanda
Amicus Curiae Pro Bono Publico - open access online publication at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
No full textThis paper describes recent work at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London to provide open online access to the IALS/SALS official journal Amicus Curiae and selected papers from the Institute’s annual W G Hart Legal Workshop. It discusses some of the issues involved in a transition from print to web publication and looks at the benefits anticipated from additional web delivery
Queen Elizabeth II should be the final Head of the Commonwealth
No full textLurking not far beneath the surface of the current celebrations of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is a nagging
anxiety: what happens next? Nowhere is this more acute than in Commonwealth circles. The future of the headship
of the Commonwealth, a role the Queen has played with such dedication, is in doubt. Should it pass to her heir,
Prince Charles? Dig a little deeper and you soon encounter off-the-record expressions of doubt about Charles’s
suitability. Amid the rather awkward and embarrassed murmurings that pass for debate on this issue, the cases for
and against Charles inheriting the headship have barely been explored or discussed. Set out systematically, both
sets of arguments are powerful and both deserve to be taken seriously. Ultimately, however, we conclude that the
interests of the Commonwealth would be best served if the post of Head of the Commonwealth ceased to exist at
the end of Her Majesty’s reign
Ontological arguments from experience: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Iris Murdoch, and the nature of divine reality
No full textDombrowski and Murdoch offer versions of the ontological argument which aim to avoid two types of objection - those concerned with the nature of the divine, and those concerned with the move from an abstract concept to a mind-independent reality. For both, the nature of the concept of God/Good entails its instantiation, and both supply a supporting argument from experience. It is only Murdoch who successfully negotiates the transition from an abstract concept to the instantiation of that concept, however, and this is achieved by means of an ontological argument from moral experience which, in a reversal of the Kantian doctrine, depends ultimately on a form of the cosmological argument