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Prohibitive Failure : The Demise of the Ban on Sports Betting
Holden, John T. - 2019
On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling. The sweeping opinion, authored by Justice Alito, ended more than a quarter-century old policy that kept states from offering sports gambling and therefore, sports betting was confined almost...
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Cross-Border Fraud and Cross-Border Insolvency : Proving COMI and Seeking Recognition under the UK Model Law
Ho, Look Chan - 2009
In explaining the concept of centre of main interests (COMI) within the UK Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (CBIR), the Englush court in Re Stanford International Bank over-emphasised third-party ascertainability due to an apparent lack of appreciation of the different functions...
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Recent Developments in International Investment Law
Titi, Catharine - 2020
In 2016 and 2017, states continued their engagement with international investment law. A small minority of states displayed scepticism or tried to disengage themselves from their investment law obligations. This chapter addresses select institutional developments in international investment law...
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Democratic Deficit, Participation and the WTO
Joseph, Sarah - 2013
This chapter will analyze arguments that the World Trade Organization (WTO) suffers from a 'democratic deficit', which casts doubt on the legitimacy and desirability of its rules and policies. First this chapter outlines teh two strands of this accusation of 'democratic deficit'. That is: 1....
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The Neo-Liberal Bias of the EU Constitutional Order : A Critical Analysis, in Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law (Mark Tushnet, Dimitry Kochenov eds.), Edward...
Bugaric, Bojan - 2023
The EU ‘economic constitution’ systematically biases EU policy making in a neo-liberal direction. Historically speaking … EU economic constitution are significant, we should avoid the naturalization of the EU project. Instead of looking only … European progressives, while in power, failed to leave their lasting and distinct imprint on the EU economic constitution …
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Why Copyright and Linking Can Tango
Tsoutsanis, Alexander - 2014
This article discusses the legal status of links, in connection with the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Svensson, C More and BestWater. Hyperlinks, deep links, framed links and embedded links are discussed. It focuses on the Opinion of the European Copyright...
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‘The Way of the World’, International Economic Law and National Constitutions : Irish Constitutional Sovereignty and the Eurozone Crisis
O'Donovan, Darren - 2016
, were legal confrontations which tested the boundaries of its Constitution. Ireland's dualist constitutional heritage was …, whose Constitution is undergirded by a long established republican conception of national sovereignty, these instruments … Court was forced to reflect upon the Irish Constitution's conception of sovereignty and the possibility of its alienation …
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Transnational Constitutions
Goderis, Benedikt; Versteeg, Mila - 2021
transnational influences are strongest when a nation adopts its first constitution. At this time, no less than 46 percent of the …
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Choice of Law in International Arbitration (with Respect to Corresponding Legal Regulations in the Czech Republic)
Belohlavek, Alexander J. - 2015
This paper deals with the question of the determination of the applicable law in international commercial arbitration. In particular, it focuses on the determination of the substantive law governing the legal relationship of the parties, as the law which needs to be distinguished from the law...
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Ordre Public and Cross-Border Insolvency : Especially in Relation to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings
Belohlavek, Alexander J. - 2015
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