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UK Paediatricians’ medical decision-making for severely disabled children: a socio-legal analysis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)This thesis aims to illuminate how paediatricians in the United Kingdom (UK) make difficult medical decisions when treating severely disabled children with complex health conditions. In particular, it examines the part ... -
Human embryo in vitro: a processual entity in legal stasis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)This doctoral research explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes, namely under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended). The research offers a fuller understanding of these ... -
Power to imprison: comparing political culture and imprisonment regimes in Ireland and Scotland in the late Twentieth Century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)Penal politics and imprisonment in the English-speaking west are often presented as having become increasingly harsh and exclusionary since about 1970. Yet, curiously little attention has been given to Ireland and Scotland, ... -
Covenants and swords: coercion in law
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)This thesis is a study of the coerciveness of legal systems. I defend two main claims: that typical legal systems are much less coercive than most legal and political philosophers think, and that legal systems are not ... -
Reasoning about free speech
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-04)No one seems to be against freedom of speech. We have profound disagreements, nonetheless, about what people should be allowed to say. Superficially, these disagreements seem to be independent of our own personal views on ... -
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 ...
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