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Liminality of NHS research ethics committees: navigating participant protection and research promotion across regulatory spaces
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)NHS research ethics committees (RECs) serve as the gatekeepers of health research involving human participants. They have the power to decide, through a regulatory ‘event licensing’ system, whether or not any given ... -
EU's Private Damages Directive: sufficiently framed to achieve its underlying aims and objectives?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)This thesis seeks to address the question: to what extent is the EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions sufficiently framed in its terms to achieve its underlying aims and objectives? It is argued that the Directive ... -
Evolving role of shareholders and the future of director primacy theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)Over the last two decades, US corporate governance has witnessed a significant increase in the incidence and influence of shareholder activism. Shareholder activism, however, has been found to be inconsistent with US ... -
Test for echo: competition law and the music industries from a business model perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)The thesis asks whether there is a role for competition law and policy in the music industries. It is argued that there is a need for updated competition policy in order to safeguard both end consumer welfare and the ... -
Regulating for change? Influencing business contributions to peacebuilding
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)Those actors that attempt to influence business approaches to social responsibility are typically concerned with preventing businesses from causing harm or holding businesses accountable for harmful activities when they ... -
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 ... -
Defences of Duress
(The University of Edinburgh, 1979)This study examines the defence of duress in the criminal law. The first two chapters are concerned with the problem of what acts can be considered to have been performed under duress. An analysis of coerced acts ... -
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 ...
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