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Morality patently matters: the case for a universal suffrage for morally controversial biotechnological patents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)This thesis is a critique and proposed reform of the decision-making process under the European Patent Convention 1973, Article 53(a) as it relates to morality. It postulates that the manner in which the morality bar is ... -
Contribution of the UNECE water regime to international law on transboundary watercourses and freshwater ecosystems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)Achieving global water sustainability through a resilient international legal architecture presents one of the most pressing challenges within our resource finite planet. A staggering 42 percent of the total land area ... -
International law and the governance of climate finance: navigating global institutional complexity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)This thesis is of legal clarification, analytical discovery and method. It questions the relationship between international law and the institutional complexities of global governance by taking climate finance as a ... -
Visions of self-government: constitutional symbolism and the question of judicial review
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)This thesis investigates the question of whether judicial review of legislation is a hindrance to democracy. My main claim is that the existing literature on this topic fails to pay adequate regard to the symbolic ... -
The morality provisions in the ''European'' patent system for biotechnological interventions: an institutional examination
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)This thesis analyses the supra-national application of the morality provisions in the ‘European’ patent system by the judicial/quasi-judicial decision-making in the European Union (“EU”) and European Patent Organisation ... -
Trust laws of Jersey and Malta: a civilian interpretation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)This thesis attempts to identify the philosophy, key questions and priorities behind the trust laws of Jersey and Malta. By wide accord, the Jersey law has served as a model in many ways to its later Maltese counterpart. ... -
International law as a constitutionalized legal system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)Constitutional approaches have been frequently employed in recent international legal literature. This unavoidably triggers the question of the quality of international law as a constitutionalized legal system. This ... -
Was the Scots Common Law underlying contracts of sale unified in regard to the implied warranty of soundness?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)The thesis explores whether, prior to the nineteenth century regime of legislative intervention which anglicised the law relating to contracts of sale for goods, the Scots common law underlying contracts of sale developed ... -
Changing types of homicide in Scotland and their relationship to types of wider violence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)The lack of information about the relationship between homicide and violence was identified as a gap in knowledge almost 30 years ago. Despite this, little research has been conducted worldwide regarding this relationship ... -
The Attachment of the Floating Charge in Scots Law
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)This thesis examines the attachment of the floating charge to property in Scots law. The work is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses on how the charge interacts with property in a general sense. The second ... -
Copyright on the internet: achieving security through electronic devices an artificial intelligence approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)This thesis aims to provide a novel approach to ensure copyright compliance online, appropriate for the Internet of Things and the robotic revolution. To achieve this, three different aims are pursued: - A novel application ... -
Social media and open trial: an emerging conflict or an opportunity?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-29)This thesis presents a comprehensive overview of the concept of open trial in different eras, before and after the birth of the Internet and social media. It describes obstacles and challenges that emerge in the digital ... -
A critical assessment of the nature, scope and adequacy of the Taliban and Al Qaeda sanctions regime(s) established by the United Nations Security Council
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012)Alongside the development of methods of terrorism, society has developed ways of fighting it. This dissertation addresses modern forms of countering terrorism in the sense of sanctions regime(s) established by the United ... -
Addressing maritime violence through a changing dynamic of international law-making: supplementation within evolution
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)Violence at sea has long been a problem for the international community, although the nature and preponderance of incidents has evolved over time. This issue was dealt with in a cursory manner in the 1982 United Nations ... -
International law of climate change and accountability
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-11-26)In the past few decades, accountability has become a key concept to assess the role and place of a wide range of trasnational institutions. Such trend can be partially explained by the widespread sense of unaccountability ... -
Judging democratisation: courts as democracy builders in the post-war world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)Can courts really build democracy in a state emerging from undemocratic rule? If so, how they do this, and what are their limits in this regard? This thesis seeks to explore the development since 1945 of a global model ... -
Human trafficking and models of governing security
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis seeks to address the complex forms assumed by the problem of human trafficking in the contemporary world and in particular to analyse and overcome certain identified shortcomings in existing models of ... -
Interface between jurisdiction instruments and arbitration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis addresses the question of how conventions and other instruments regulating court jurisdiction should deal with court proceedings relating to arbitration. It argues that the conventional approach of excluding ... -
Emerging legal concepts at the nexus of law, technology and society: a case study in identity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-29)The aim of this thesis is to investigate and further the understanding of the interaction between law, technology and society. My original contribution to this understanding lies in an account and analysis of the process ... -
Fault-based and strict liability in the law of neighbours
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-29)By the end of the twentieth century, and after a long line of conflicting case law, the question about the basis of liability in nuisance was settled: in Scotland, damages are awarded only upon proof of fault (RHM Bakeries ...
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