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Common law, environmental titles, and remote islands in a time of climate change
No full textThe paper reconsiders some common assumptions we usually make about British titles by locating them in a place of insular remoteness and in a time of climate change. To this end, it focuses on one of the remotest geographical areas of the world: the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, literally located at the “uttermost part of the Earth.
Against the failure of the legal imagination. Literary narratives, Brexit and the fate of the Anglo-British constitution
No full textThis chapter focuses on the challenges that lie ahead for the United Kingdom following Brexit. It contends that the sense of anxiety percolating through the Anglo-British constitution is triggered by a profound lack of legal imagination, and that such a lack is also a consequence of legal positivism. He proposes to resort to the British manufacturing tradition in order to sidestep such lack of imagination. Here, he identifies a twofold interaction between imagination and legislative process, which can usefully inform a transition into a new legal reality. Nicolini argues that anxiety can be sidestepped, if only we consider that both legal imagination and legislative action were conceived as a means for recovering public and shared values within British society. In his view, not only does the law organise society, but it also secures predictability by reforms – complementing legal imagination by giving the latter a rational form. To this extent, Britain has always been able to manage complexity by what Nicolini terms ‘acts of constitutional creativity’ deeply rooted in British legal culture. The history of Britain has always been a history of reimagination whereby the UK has developed a ‘complex’ constitutional system
Island-ness: A 'New Province' of Cross-Disciplinary Research
No full textThis volume is a collection of essays whose authors have different academic backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to legal studies, from English literature to human geography. Such a variety of academic disciplines is particularly fitting when it comes to exploring the sundry and physical places we have traditionally been taught to term ‘islands.’ Indeed, it supplies an array of perspectives which undoubtedly contribute to the reflection of ‘Island-ness’ as an ambit of research that lies at the crossroads of several areas of study, such as law, geography, literature, planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies
Improved preparation of aminomethylenemalonic acid derivatives by tin-promoted addition of diethyl malonates to nitriles
No full text(H2N)CR:C(CO2Et)2 (R = Ph, Me, Me2CH, cyclohexyl, hexyl, Me2C:CH) were prepd. in 50-98% yields by refluxing CH2(CO2Et)2 with RCN in the presence of SnCl4 in CH2Cl
Diffusione e concentrazione del giudizio di costituzionalità delle leggi in Israele. L'ottica del conflitto tra poteri
No full textIl contributo indaga, in prospettiva comparatistica, il problema di quale tipologia di sistema di giustizia costituzionale sia il risultato dell’invenzione “rivoluzionaria”, in via pretoria, del potere di controllo di costituzionalità delle leggi effettuata dalla Corte Suprema di Israele negli anni Novanta del secolo scorso. A fronte di detta “rivoluzionaria” evoluzione a livello interpretativo- giurisprudenziale, è sembrato infatti per lungo tempo nel sistema israeliano potersi porre il dubbio – suffragato dall’analisi dello sparuto numero di casi rilevanti del primo ventennio – se nel paese fosse sorto un sistema di controllo di costituzionalità di tipo diffuso, che veda ogni tribunale in grado di conoscere delle questioni di costituzionalità e dichiarare l’incostituzionalità di una legge, o piuttosto un sistema che invece accentri nella Corte Suprema i poteri in questione, come suggeriscono l’evoluzione in via di fatto e pure alcune recenti proposte de iure condendo
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Democrazia, ambiente e sviluppo sostenibile nell’Africa Lusofona
Full text linkLa presentazione introduce una sezione monografica dedicata alle relazioni tra democrazia, ambiente e sviluppo sostenibile nei paesi africani dell'area lusofona
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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