Edinburgh Research Archive

• Relevance of long-term interests in the decision-making processes of company directors in the UK, Delaware and Germany: a critical evaluation 

  Chałaczkiewicz-Ładna, Katarzyna (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)

  This thesis explores the extent to which the law in the UK, Delaware and Germany imposes an obligation on directors of solvent public companies to take into account the long-term consequences of their decisions while ...

• Freedom of artistic expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights 

  Lowe, James Joseph Greaves (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  Under the auspices of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights the right to freedom of expression is said to be held by everyone and to include the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information ...

• Partnership and biobank governance. 

  Chobisara, Tarmphong (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  The forward march of biobanking creates the need for an alternative approach to biobank governance. Biobanking encourages medical advancement by making the conduct of health-related research more efficient, by minimising ...

• Restructuring community justice in Scotland, 2012-2017: policy and power dynamics in the penal field 

  Buchan, James Guy Michael (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  Community justice in Scotland – the system of agencies that deliver community punishments and related services – is being restructured for the second time in a decade. The current system of administration by regional ...

• Wall and the bridge: a spatial history of segregation measures in Scottish prisons 

  Bird, Jessica Jane (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  This project explores the contemporary history of segregation in Scottish prisons, focusing on measures of ‘special handling’ particularly the network of small units that was operative between the 1950s and the 1990s. ...

• Towards a radical conception of social rights 

  Konstantine Eristavi, Konstantine (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)

  This thesis intends to demonstrate the radical potential of rights. I argue that rights are capable, on the one hand, of challenging capitalist social relations and the liberal legal order which sustains those relations, ...

• How young people experience the imprisonment of a family member: critical reflections on policy 

  Aitken, Dinah (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  The research question is: How do young people experience having a family member in prison? This question is posed within the Scottish policymaking context, in which high rates of imprisonment ...

• Reflexive law and reflexive property rights: tackling the regulatory trilemma of ecosystems conservation 

  Ubilla Fuenzalida, Jaime Cristian (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)

  This thesis intends to be a contribution both to the sociological analysis of law and to the analysis of regulatory approaches of biodiversity conservation. In particular, and on the one hand, I intend to contribute to ...

• Critical analysis of promise in Scots law and Thai law 

  Khopuangklang, Korrasut (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)

  This thesis critically analyses the law of promise. It does so for the purposes of identifying potential solutions to practical and doctrinal problems in the Thai law of promise. Scots law is chosen as the main point of ...

• Trusted computing or trust in computing? Legislating for trust networks 

  Danidou, Ioanna (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-06)

  This thesis aims to address several issues emerging in the new digital world. Using Trusted Computing as the paradigmatic example of regulation though code that tries to address the cyber security problem that occurs, where ...

• Nicolas Bohier (1469 – 1539) and the ius commune: a study in sixteenth–century French legal practice 

  Hepburn, Jasmin Kira Rennie (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)

  European legal history, as a field of scientific enquiry, is a relatively young discipline that can trace its roots back to the German jurist Savigny, whose work on the jurists of the medieval ius commune is commonly ...

• Remaining rooted whilst branching out: an investigation of rules and principles in decision-making 

  Sethi, Nayha (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-24)

  Against the backdrop of health research regulation, this work engages in an exploration of, and offers suggestions towards, how the decision maker can negotiate the complex path of the difficult decision. It is argued ...

• Constitutionality and legality of telecoms forced access mechanisms : a comparative study of the EU and Taiwan 

  Lin, You-Hung (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)

  Telecoms industry is a highly specialised industry and there is a general consensus that it requires a specially designed regulatory system. Besides the many technology-oriented regulations, this regulatory system not ...

• Accountability towards individuals and communities affected by the World Bank Development Interventions: a project law approach 

  Jokubauskaite, Giedre (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-30)

  This thesis sets out to explore the reasons why individuals and communities affected by development operations are generally unable to influence and control the content of development interventions, and also how this ...

• J.A.G. Griffith's normative positivism 

  Rizvi, Majid (The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)

  This thesis provides a reinterpretation of J.A.G. Griffith’s lecture ‘The Political Constitution’—a reinterpretation that stresses the commitment Griffith expressed in that lecture to the normative dimension of legal ...

• Sexual offences and young complainers : sexuality, character and consent 

  Burman, Michèle (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

• Relationship between international law and Scots criminal law under reference to extradition, mutual legal assistance and proceeds of crime 

  Brown, Alastair Nigel (The University of Edinburgh, 1999)

• Doctrine and application of partnership in Islamic commercial law with special reference to Malaysian experiments in Islamic banking and finance 

  Borhan, Joni Tamkin (The University of Edinburgh, 1997)

• Application of A-national principles in international commercial arbitration 

  Yu, Hong-Lin (The University of Edinburgh, 1998)

• International legal régime for the protection of the stratospheric ozone layer 

  Yoshida, O. (The University of Edinburgh, 1998)

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