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Searching for a Room of One's Own in Cyberspace : Datafication and the Global Feminisation of Privacy

Kovacs, Anja - 2023

Since its conceptualisation, the construction of privacy has been deeply gendered, as women and gender and sexual … consequence, the watered-down, inferior version of privacy that women and sexual and gender minorities historically have been … jurisprudence in particular, through a fundamental curtailment of the decisional autonomy of women and gender and sexual minorities …

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Thorner v Major (2009) : Proprietary Estoppel and Inheritance

Mee, John - 2020

This chapter considers the landmark status of the House of Lords in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, understanding it as an example of story-telling in the law. The chapter explores the issues surrounding the equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel, as it applies in particular in the context...

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Trust Parties’ Uniquely Easy Access to Rescission : Analysis, Critique And Reform

Hofri-Winogradow, Adam S. - 2019

This article shows that parties to trusts currently enjoy easier access to judicial avoidance of voluntary dispositions resulting from mistakes and inadequate decision-making than other persons. The principal doctrinal basis for this advantage has shifted from the rule in Re Hastings-Bass to...

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Fiduciary principles in trust law

Sitkoff, Robert H. - 2018 - Draft of June 14, 2018

This book chapter, prepared for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, canvasses the fiduciary principles applicable to a trustee of a donative, irrevocable private trust subject. The focus is on prevailing American law. The chapter examines (a) the trigger for finding a trust...

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Incomplete Dispositions

Cahn, Naomi - 2016

In Irresolute Testators, Professor Jane Baron provocatively suggests the existence of two distinct types of testators: the rational, autonomous testator who has made deliberate choices about the contents of her will and whose errors, if any, are minor; and the more vulnerable, less resolute...

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Gender, Islam, and law

Bowen, John Richard - 2017

This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus on real-world views and practices rather than only...

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Inexpressive law

Carbonara, Emanuela; Parisi, Francesco; von Wangenheim, … - 2010

According to expressive law theories, expression of values is an important function played by the law. Expressive laws affect behavior, not by threatening sanctions or promising rewards, but by changing individual preferences and tastes and, in some cases, by affecting social norms and values....

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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed

Lipman, Francine J. - 2018

Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed...

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Are the Japanese unique? Evidence from household saving and bequest behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016

In this paper, we attempt to shed light on whether Japanese households are rational or if their behavior is influenced by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility,...

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Equality of the sexes and gender differences in competition : evidence from three traditional societies

Klonner, Stefan; Pal, Sumantra; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020

Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

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