The following response in our symposium on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum comes from Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Oona is ...

In large and complex human groups, social rules reduce individuals' uncertainty about their own choice set, including through these rules' simultaneous influence on the choice set of other individuals ...

Courts are products of legal doctrine. A judge’s primary responsibility is to interpret and fairly apply the written law to the facts of each case. To this end, everyone knows judges are governed by a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper examines whether violence in contemporary Albania is a structured phenomenon linked to Albanian customary laws, such as the Kanun of ...

Norms conferring public or private powers, i.e., the competence to issue other norms, play a very important rôle in law. But there is no agreement among legal philosophers about the nature of such ...

Norms are standards of proper or acceptable behavior. They establish expectations and clarify misbehavior, thereby helping to isolate, limit and sanction bad behavior. Without norms, there are no norm ...

Talk about "the good ol' days" of Americans politics is generally misplaced. The notion that politicians used to engage in a high-minded, cooperative process, with well-intentioned policymakers ...

Last year, facts of violation of ethical conduct norms by civil servants were identified in 12 state bodies in Azerbaijan, a report of the Civil Service Commission under the President of the Republic ...